Mozilla is working on a major overhaul of the Firefox mobile user interface for Android. The developers are transitioning away from XUL—the cross-platform user interface toolkit used by Firefox on the desktop—in favor of native widgets. This major design change will offer smoother performance, better platform integration, and a look and feel that is a bit more consistent with the rest of the Android environment.

We looked at the new native Firefox mobile tablet interface when it surfaced in September for Honeycomb devices. Mozilla’s mobile team is currently preparing to deliver a similar n...

CLT Blog’s Justin Ruckman decoded SEC filings to turn up an intriguing recent Amazon acquisition: Yap, a Charlotte-based speech-recognition startup best known for its recently shuttered voicemail transcription app and backend services for some of Microsoft’s voice-to-text application.

So far, Amazon hasn’t publicly commented on or even confirmed Yap’s acquisition, and didn’t immediately respond to our attempts to find out what it plans to do with the company. It’s an uncharacteristic buy for them, since the company traditionally hasn’t bothered much with voice technology. Amazon’s Kindle Fire t...