For Android users, there's a nifty download now in the Android Market called BrowserTexting (download).

The free app lets you sync your phone to your browser, so you can send and receive SMS messages right from your computer. It's perfect for when you're at work, at home, or when you just don't feel like tapping away texts on your Android phone's touch screen.

To start, BrowserTexting gives you unlimited incoming texts and up to 50 outgoing texts from your browser per day. It also lets you send group texts to up to five recipients at a time. For the seasoned SMS pros out there, BrowserTexting offers Premium accounts starting at $9.99 per year, which give you unlimited browser texting and unlimited group message recipients. You can try out a Premium account free for 30 days.

Here's how BrowserTexting works.

Step 1: Download and install the free BrowserTexting app from the Android Market.

Step 2: Using your computer browser, navigate to BrowserTexting.com, and click Start Texting From This Computer to generate a unique QR code.

Step 3: Fire up the BrowserTexting app on your Android phone and hit Connect to scan the QR code on your computer screen. If you don't have a QR code scanner installed on your device, the app will prompt y... [Read more]

Mozilla and Google are renegotiating a deal by which Google shares ad revenue that results from searches the browser drives to its site.

The partnership, which Mozilla renewed in 2008 for three more year, was set to expire in November. With that deadline and a noncommittal comment from Mozilla, Ed Bott, who blogs at ZDNet, surmised in a headline: "Google deal apparently ends."

But apparently there's some wiggle room in the organizations' relationship and the Googlebucks are still making their way across Mountain View.

"We generally don't disclose specific terms of business agreements. We can confirm that we still have an agreement with Mozilla, but have nothing new to share at this time," Google said in a statement today to CNET News.

Mozilla added that the two are in negotiations:

Our search relationship with Google remains positive for both of us. We are in active negotiations and have nothing further to announce at this time. We have every confidence that search partnerships will continue to be a strong and growing generator of revenue for the foreseeable future.

Mozilla, although a nonprofit, needs money to operate. Google provides the lion's share of it--most of the ... [Read more]