Yes! The Fox has found another prey in the N900. The long awaited mobile version of Firefox, which had been code-named Fennec has been released. Unfortunately, for now the release is available only for the Maemo OS and will run.

On the N900, N820 and N800 Nokia devices. While the browser will finally be available for the Windows mobile platform as well (an alpha is available now) there are no plans for porting it to some of the other smartphone operating systems such as Symbian.

Undoubtedly no version for Firefox for iPhone is planned, however a Blackberry port for Firefox is also difficult due to its Java-based OS. Android users however might see a Firefox version as such versions are undergoing testing and development.

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There’s no getting around it: Microsoft’s original Xbox 360 wireless adapter was a colossal piece of crap and a complete waste of money. It was extremely expensive at $100, and on the off occasion it would actually hold a connection it was unreliable.

Instability led to terrible latency issues that hindered high-def streaming and made multiplayer gaming problematic. It seems that even Microsoft is aware of the issues, because the publishing giant has decided to replace the hundred dollar paperweight with the Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter. In a stunning turn of events, the N Adapter is not only improved, but completely worth the price.

It’s a shame that wireless access to Xbox Live still costs an extra 100 bones, especially when the Wii and PlayStation 3 have had it integrated since day one at no additional cost.

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T-Mobile customers who use the Google Nexus One smartphones are reporting widespread data outages on their devices.The outages are being reported at multiple online sites, including Twitter, where T-Mobile staff are directing affected customers to the carrier's message boards. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid: Breaking down the basics

According to ZDNet writer Matthew Miller, T-Mobile is sending users messages on their devices telling them that they need to sign up for data plans, despite the fact that they are already T-Mobile data subscribers. Miller says that he personally has "the unlimited Android web plan" and that it "worked just fine until this morning." A Gizmodo reader reported encountering the same problem when he tried to use his Nexus One to surf the web this morning.

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Microsoft can be forgiven if it's looking at Apple's iPad announcement today with more than a little envy. Microsoft has been pushing tablet technology for at least a decade, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars in development costs to no avail. And now Apple has stolen its thunder with a flashier, more exciting, and less expensive product.

Bill Gates has been talking about tablet computing for at least a decade. Back in 2001, for example, Gizmodo says he told CNN, "The tablet takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it available whenever you want it...It's a PC that is virtually without limits --- and within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America."

Ooops. Gates may have gotten many things right through the years, but he clearly was wrong on that prediction. Even though tablets didn't catch on, Microsoft still kept spending money on them. Back on 2003, CNN reported that Microsoft had spent $400 million to build a tablet PC for Windows XP. Microsoft predicted that between 500,000 and 1 million tablet PCs running Windows would sell in a year...one more prediction that didn't happen. And Gates said:

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Apple Inc. is in talks with Microsoft Corp. to replace Google Inc. as the default search engine on the iPhone, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The talks have been under way for weeks, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the details aren’t public. The negotiations may not be concluded quickly and might still fall apart, the people said.

The discussions reflect the intensifying rivalry between Apple and Google, currently the main search engine on the iPhone. While the companies have worked as partners in the past and Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt served on Apple’s board, they now compete in markets such as mobile phones. Google introduced its Nexus One phone this month and offers a mobile operating system called Android.

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Average analyst estimates for the internet services provider are $.11/share in EPS and $1.23 billion in Revenue.  Twenty-Nine analysts track the stock with no upward EPS revisions in the last 30 days and no downward EPS revisions in the last 30 days.

Last quarter, Yahoo! beat average analysts expectations by .06/share or 85.7%, .13/share vs. .07/share. I always find this a tough period waiting to see if the company is going meet, exceed, or miss their earnings estimates.  One thing I have discovered of value is to analyze sentiment moves in a stock ahead of the company’s earnings release.  In the case of Yahoo!, I will use the piqqem sentiment index for Yahoo! to see how sentiment has changed in the last quarter, for the months within that quarter, and from the end of the reporting quarter thru today.

 I’m looking for moves or changes that may foreshadow the earning release.  (piqqem leverages the ‘wisdom of crowds’ by allowing its users to vote on the price direction of a stock and then applies its own propriety factors to calculate sentiment for a security. In their model, -100 is the lowest and 100 is the highest sentiment).

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Google has delayed the debut of two new mobile phones in China amid a dispute with the Chinese government over online censorship.

The postponement by the California-based internet giant is the latest development following the announcement last week that it would no longer follow Chinese internet censorship laws and may pull out of China altogether.

That announcement came after Google said it had uncovered a "sophisticated" computer attack on its software coding and the email accounts of human rights activists protesting against Chinese policies.

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A little over a year ago, comScore’s US Search Rankings Report for Dec. 2008 showed that YouTube for the first time, could be thought of as the second largest search engine next to Google with 2,905,000,000 total search queries that month.

According to comScore’s December 2009 US Search Rankings Report published last week, YouTube searches grew 35% year over year to more than 3.9 billion search queries. 

In fact, YouTube not only had 50% more searches than Yahoo web search (3.918B vs 2.629B) and 180% more searches than Bing (3.918B vs 1.399B), but the number of searches at the online video giant made up almost 28% (27.95) of the total searches on Google sites for Dec. 2009.

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which opens its annual user conference Monday, said Thursday that Panasonic is rolling out its LotusLive suite of online collaboration software and dropping Microsoft Exchange among other collaboration tools. Microsoft fired back on Friday, announcing free training for the first 500 Notes pros who sign up and a set of new third-party migration tools to help users move from Lotus to Microsoft.

The pre-Lotusphere sparring is sort of the traditional gateway into the gathering of the Lotus faithful, which takes place at the end of each January. The two companies have a rich history of battling over e-mail seats, collaboration platforms and now online services.

LotusLive is a platform of hosted services such as messaging, conferencing and social networking cast in the likeness of Lotus's on-premises tools. The lineup also includes plug-ins to connect the matching online and on-premises software.Lotus also listed a number of other companies that have adopted its LotusLive platform, including Trajkovski & Partners Consulting, Collaboration Matters Limited and RealConnections.

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After making such an enormous splash earlier in the week the world has been waiting for the fall-out from Google’s announcement that it was preparing to quit China.Instead, for all the frothing of the media and the writing and re-hashing of the issues raised by Google’s move, there has been nothing but stony silence from Beijing.

Google employees in China are – as David Drummond’s blog post made clear – deliberately being kept out of the loop to protect them from any possible trouble with the Chinese authorities. Everyone has been ordered to keep quiet. An acquaintance of mine in the advertising sales business in Beijing who has several good friends among Google China’s management said that even his phone calls are not being returned.

Officially Google has only said that it has ‘been in touch’ with the Chinese government to alert officials to its plans but when asked, the company’s spokesman said they ‘didn’t know’ if additional meetings had been scheduled.

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