Cody Taylor

An anonymous reader points out a story at Business Week which begins: “Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker says the Chrome browser is making the foundation behind Firefox rethink its reliance on revenues from Google. Since Google introduced its own Web browser, Chrome, the prospect that Google may not re-up the three-year contract set to expire in 2011 has Mozilla considering other search partnerships and ways to generate revenue, Baker said. ‘There are probably other search engines that would pay us more money,’ Baker says. Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN, Google’s two main search rivals, come to mind, but Baker says smaller search engines wouldn’t be discounted should such a situation arise. One player Baker won’t identify ‘offered a blank check to replace Google,’ she says. Set to launch on certain Nokia phones in late spring, Fennec is the first Mozilla browser optimized for mobile platforms. If it gains traction with enough handset makers and mobile users, Fennec could represent another way to draw revenue from a partnering search engine.”

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Heres an idea: If you’re looking to build up your social site’s user base, add support for a popular, similarly focused (but not directly competitive) social site to your network’s iPhone application.

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Some anonymous person wrote in to say that Google has relaunched and rebranded GrandCentral as “Google Voice.” The article says it will “revolutionize telephones. It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers and elevates text messages to first-class communication citizens.” Sadly, the voicemail didn’t integrate very nicely w/ my phone back in the day, so I guess I should give it a shot.

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Apple released a new iPod. Isn’t it a beauty? But note the proprietary headphones.

Apple has apparently had a change of heart about a Twitter iPhone app that sometimes presents users with language some might find objectionable.

You are standing in a store looking for a new DVD to buy. Rather than buying it, you photograph the barcode with your phone and press a couple of buttons. By the time you make it home, the movie is waiting for you in your torrent client. You can with Torrent Droid.

Talk about declaring a price war: MetroPCS has launched their first BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone with an unlimited rate plan. The personal rate plan includes unlimited talk, text, web browsing, MMS and BlackBerry email access through BlackBerry Internet Service, while an extra gets you the BlackBerry Enterprise Server version.

je ne sais quoi writes “The Apple rumor mill is churning today. Reuters and the DOW Jones news wire are reporting that an anonymous source in Taiwan has leaked that Apple has ordered some 10-inch touch-screens from WinTek, the maker of the touch-screen for the iPhone. It looks like an Apple netbook could possibly be in the works for a delivery date in Q3 of this year, in time for back-to-school sales. CNET and Engadget have completely unsubstantiated mock-ups.”

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Julie188 writes “When the Android Market began offering paid apps last month, developers with the unlocked version of Google’s Android phone quickly learned that they couldn’t access them. The policy, which threatened to alienate the small developer base that Google needs to nurture at all costs, didn’t make much sense. And now, with the release of Version 1.1 of Android for the developer phone, developers can access paid apps — as long as they aren’t copy-protected. But in a weird way, that’s good news. Very few developers currently copy-protect their Android apps simply because Android’s copy-protection scheme is notoriously weak.”

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