Tag archive: Mitchell Baker

Mozilla's hunt for a new CEO is over. Since May, Mozilla has been searching for a new CEO to replace outgoing leader John Lilly, who is joining Greylock Partners to work with startup companies. In a blog post today, the public benefit organization named Gary Kovacs its new CEO. He'll take over on November 8. Kovacs has worked as a senior VP of Markets, Solutions & Products at Sybase and has held notable positions at Macromedia… Read More

It was a dream team, a panel of real experts discussing the rapidly escalating threat of cybercrime. Imagine Microsoft's chief research officer, Craig Mundie, along with Mozilla chairwoman Mitchell Baker, McAfee chief executive Dave Dewalt, Harvard law professor and Internet expert Jonathan Zittrain, as well Andre Kudelski of the digital security Kudelski group, and Tom Ilube, head of web protection company Garlik. These are people… Read More

Most people would agree that Mozilla’s done a pretty good job with the Firefox browser. Now they’re setting out plans for the next couple of years, and those include a mobile browser and making their existing products more effective, Vnunet reports. “There are also other broader goals that Mozilla might take on – proposals to date include education, open source evangelism in general, open everything, assisting… Read More

Google, Real Networks, and the Mozilla Corporation have signed onto a multi-year deal under which Real Networks will offer the Google Toolbarand Mozilla's Firefox Web browser with Real Network's RealPlayer media player application. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; thearrangement builds on an existing two-year arrangement between Real Networks and Google in which Real Networks promoted the Google Toolbar. “Real… Read More

The new version, dubbed “Firefox 0.8″ replaces the old “Firebird” and features an improved download manager as well as better extension and bookmark handling. Mozilla also released a preview version of its Thunderbird e-mail client Monday. The new Thunderbird 5.0 offers the ability to synchronize with devices from Palm, and features secure password authentication for SMTP and POP3 mail… Read More