For the past several years, Cyanogen’s goal has been to create a better, more secure and more customizable version of Android with its third-party CyanogenMod firmware. Now The Verge reports that Cyanogen is significantly raising its ambitions now that it’s received $7 million in venture funding from-Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. In fact, Cyanogen CEO-Kirt McMaster tells The Verge that his company’s goal is to beat out both Windows Phone and BlackBerry to become the world’s No. 3 most used mobile operating system. “There’s always been lot of talk around who’s going to be the third dominant mobile computing platform,” he explains. “Windows Phone would probably be No. 3 now. If you look at what our actual user base is,

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