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Tom Drapeau / The Netscape Blog:
End of Support for Netscape web browsers — › tags: AOL, Mozilla, Netscape, Netscape Navigator, NetscapeNavigator, Web Browsers, WebBrowsers — AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online. Throughout its lifetime …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development — Please observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser. Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 …
PC World:
The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year — Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now. — Recommend this story? — Yes — No
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise:
Benazir Bhutto assassinated: Twitter's utility — If anyone needed convincing of Twitter's business utility, today is that day. — As I write this post, the Twittersphere is going nuts over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto which occurred around 5.15am Pacific Time.
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Dan York / Disruptive Conversations:
The 10 ways I learned to use Twitter in 2007... (aka Why and How I use Twitter) — How have I learned to use Twitter in my online communication? Let me count the ways... After Chris Brogan posted his “Twitter Revisited” piece last week and on the same day Jeremiah Owyang talked …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Optimus Tactus Touch Keyboard Should Be Called Optimus Retardus — While we love touch surfaces, as people who type hundreds of thousands a word each week we know that there is a limit to them: keyboards. Like this Optimus Tactus, an extruded shape/touch surface/keyboard concept by Art.Lebedev.
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Amazon's Best of 2007 Is Part Duh, Part Huh? — When you read Amazon's Best of 2007 sales, ratings and wishlist figures straight down the line, they look pretty plain, but when you compare, say, Bestselling with Most Loved, though, you learn some funny stuff.
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Mayee Corpin / TrendLabs:
Bhutto Assassination: JavaScripted — Cybercriminals wasted no time riding on the tragic and shocking news of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, as Websense discovered a number of malicious Web sites that came up on Google search results using the simple search term “benazir".
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
GPS baby Jesus stolen again, found across the street — Maybe next year they can just spring for an RFID baby Jesus. The folks in Florida noticed that their GPS-equipped baby Jesus we mentioned the other day was missing from his nativity, and fired up the old GPS tracker.
Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Apple readying HD Radio push for Macworld — iLounge has learned that Apple plans a push for iTunes Tagging-ready, HD Radio-equipped boomboxes with iPod docks during the mid-January Macworld Expo event in San Francisco, California. Announced in September, iTunes Tagging is a new HD Radio feature designed …
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
More Americans Creating Content Online — Thirty-Two Percent Call Themselves Broadcasters — Close to 40 percent (38%) of Americans are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones for entertainment and 45 percent are creating Web sites, music, videos and blogs, according to a survey from Deloitte & Touche.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Wal-Mart's online movie failure: DRM, high prices to blame — Wal-Mart, the leading DVD retailer, has announced plans to dismantle its commercial video download offering. The service lasted less than a year and never made it past the initial beta test stage.
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Record ownership for digital TVs — More than 50 percent of households in the U.S. own a digital television, according to preliminary report results released Friday by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). — The organization, known for its annual International Consumer Electronics Show …
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Nikon D60 to replace D40x, still has a booty lens mount — Nikon's D40x, 10-megapixel version of the D40 released inexplicably only four months after the D40, is set to be replaced by the new D60 line. There aren't a lot of details, but considering the price point and previous capabilities …
