Applications developer Mozilla announced its Mozilla Labs unit is at work on a Firefox browser add-on enabling users to store online content on a remote server for subsequent access via mobile handset. The service, dubbed "Joey" in honor of the baby kangaroo (as opposed to Matt LeBlanc's short-lived "Friends" spinoff) allows users to select text, images and videos from websites for storage on a personal Joey page--the application's server will facilitate fetching, processing and transcoding of the content to optimize consumption via mobile device. "The idea is that you take some of your important stuff along with you," said Mozilla's lead engineer of mobile technology Doug Turner told LinuxInsider.
According to Turner, Joey developers are also working on an application that will run directly on mobile phones. Mozilla recently released a new version of its Minimo mobile phone browser.
For more on Joey:
- read this LinuxInsider article [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/051507-mozilla-service-opens-up-mobile.html