Techmeme: Nokia to bundle easy Wi-Fi access on phones (Peter Judge/Techworld.com)

8:40 PM ET, October 10, 2007

Top Items:

Mozilla and Mobile — People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. Here's some information about what we're planning to do with hiring, technology, partnerships, and products, and how you can get involved.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Firefox Coming To Your Phone — Get ready to throw out that WAP browser on your mobile phone (if you haven't already). The iPhone, with its fully-functioning Safari browser, showed us that mobile browsing need not be a compromise. Now, the folks at Mozilla are working on a mobile version of Firefox.

Discussion: PC World and PalmAddicts

Ryan Block / Engadget:

iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 full jailbreak tested, confirmed! — We were invited by iPhone / iPod touch file system hacker Niacin (who you might also know for his PSP and MSN TV Linux cluster hacks, etc.) and Dre to test out their new v1.1.1 file system hack.

Discussion: Bits, Digital Daily, IntoMobile, Geek News Central, DailyTech, localmobilesearch.net, Gadget Lab, Slashdot and Digg

iPhone Alley:

iPhone v1.1.1 Jailbreak & AppTapp Installation Guide — It's been a couple of days since the iPhone Dev Team announced that they had a successful jailbreak, but their method was not released to anyone outside of the team until just recently. This afternoon we received an email …

Discussion: Infinite Loop, CrunchGear, Gadget Lab, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, O'Grady's PowerPage and Digg

comScore:

61 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide in August Google Ranks as Top Global Search Property comScore Introduces First Comprehensive Worldwide Reporting of the Search Market — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the first comprehensive study …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, All about Microsoft, Microsoft Watch, InsideMicrosoft, Between the Lines, 24/7 Wall St. and Technology Live

AppleInsider:

Apple to launch official iPhone Web applications directory — Apple as early as Wednesday is expected to launch as part of its website a directory of official Web 2.0-based iPhone applications, AppleInsider has been told. — One developer familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous …

Discussion: Infinite Loop, Epicenter, ParisLemon, Ubergizmo, Mashable! and Digg

Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone WebApps Appearing on Apple's Downloads Feed?

Discussion: The Register, Crave, The Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Digg

Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:

Google patents datacenter-in-a-shipping-container, ignores Sun's BlackBox — Google has received a patent from the USPTO for the concept of a "mobile datacenter" stored in a standard shipping container and equipped with multiple racks of high-powered servers with its own internal cooling system.

Discussion: WebProNews, The Register and Mashable!

Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:

Growing pains for TechCrunch's gadget blog? — On Tuesday morning, tech gossip blog Valleywag posted a rumor that TechCrunch's small blog network might not be doing quite as well as its parent brand: Valleywag editor Owen Thomas said that gadget blog CrunchGear had made significant pay cuts and that at least one blogger had been fired.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

Valleywag:
Blogging For Dollars: TechCrunch's gadget writers face pay crunch

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and blognation USA

Ben Worthen / Business Technology:

Google Biz Search; Apple Takes on Office; Other News — * Google is upgrading the search tool it sells to businesses. The new search appliance, which Google announced today, will let people search for information across all the data sources in a company at the same time, and display the search results on the same screen.

Discussion: CNET News.com and The Technology Chronicles

Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Interoperability in Virtual Worlds: Experts Discuss Possible Futures

Discussion: Valleywag

Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:

Mother's ire puts Ballmer on defense over Vista — He says the OS is delivering value to corporate customers — For a few minutes during Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's appearance at the Gartner Inc. conference here, emotionless management-speak gave way to a mother's frustration with the Vista operating system.

Discussion: CrunchGear and Zoli's Blog

Paul Graham:

Why to Move to a Startup Hub — After the last talk I gave, one of the organizers got up on the stage to deliver an impromptu rebuttal. That never happened before. I only heard the first few sentences, but that was enough to tell what I said that upset him: that startups would do better if they moved to Silicon Valley.

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar, Global Nerdy, TechDumpster and Adam Kalsey

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:

Sprint's WiMax dilemma — news analysis If Wall Street pundits get their way, Sprint Nextel's next CEO will put the brakes on plans for a new, high-speed wireless network. — But such a move, while no doubt cutting costs, could condemn the struggling company to also-ran status.

Discussion: DSLreports, eWEEK.com, WebProNews, mocoNews.net, localmobilesearch.net, All About Nortel and dailywireless.org

Dean Takahashi / A+E Interactive:

Xbox 360 secrets: After Falcon comes Jasper — Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm in Dean Takahashi, Dean and Nooch on Gaming, General. — Microsoft didn't want you to know about Falcon, and it certainly doesn't want you to know about its successor Jasper. But that's another secret we have to unveil.

Discussion: CrunchGear, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Xbox 360 Fanboy, InsideMicrosoft, Gizmodo, Joystiq and Kotaku

Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:

Happy 1st Anniversary YouTube and Google; Now Move Over a Bit — Time for another roundup, and this one coincides with a notable first-year anniversary: that of Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, confirmed on October 9th, 2006. — Since then, the name "YouTube" has become virtually synonymous with "online video sharing".

Discussion: CenterNetworks, VentureBeat and Forever Geek

Ashlee Vance / The Register:

Dell boots disks and fires up streamed PCs — Thin clients and blades are for the weak — Forget thin clients and blade PCs. Dell will do the virtual desktop thing in its own, less than radical way. — Dell today announced a streamed desktop package that will allow customers to manage up to 100 PCs from a single server.

Discussion: eWEEK.com, InfoWorld and Computerworld

Peter Judge / Techworld.com:

Nokia to bundle easy Wi-Fi access on phones — Nokia is planning to bundle software from Devicescape on devices in its E and N series, that will log in automatically to Wi-Fi hotspots. — "We wanted to make Wi-Fi feel as seamless as the cellular networks," said Dave Fraser, chief executive of Devicescape.

Discussion: BBC, Business Wire, Gizmodo, Phone Scoop, dailywireless.org and jkOnTheRun

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

The truth about traffic on the Internet — Ahh, the Guardian got into a little dirty truth about traffic on TechMeme: there isn't many people there. — Every time I get on TechMeme I get 500 to 3,000 visits. That matches what the Guardian and what Nick Carr are seeing.

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