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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 …
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BBC:
Web icon set to be discontinued — The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. — Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said. — In the mid-1990s the browser …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Wait... AOL Was Still Making A Netscape Browser? — from the those-7-users-must-be-upset dept — While AOL's purchase of Time Warner is often considered one of the biggest M&A blunders of all time (and I'd still argue that the problem was in the execution, not the concept) …
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use — Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline …
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
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:Google in 2008 — There's no all-knowing glass bowl in reach …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Kindle easter eggs: Google Maps cell-based location, picture viewer, and more — Apparently, Amazon's wondrous e-book reader, the Kindle, has more than meets the eye — not unlike some fictional, alien, robotic characters which shall not be named. Users of the device have been plumbing its depths …
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Mpuhala / interface:
Kindle Easter Eggs: We have GPS! — [click on image for high resolution version] — Yes - The Kindle has GPS (mind you, not the real GPS but rather CDMA location based) and even more Easter egg goodness: — Google Maps, show current location (Alt-1 while in the browser) — Play Minesweeper (Alt-M)
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Before Google There Was BackRub — Google's precursor in 1996 was called “BackRub,” a search engine research project headed by Larry Page at the computer science department at Stanford. BackRub might have been a reference to the underlying algorithm which counts backlinks as affirmative votes …
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: Google in 2000 — What search engine did you use in 2000?
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 …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Intel's newest gaming platform, Skulltrail — Intel seems like it's going to be making a bigger push at gamers with the launch of Penryn, and HotHardware managed to score some deets on the company's upcoming “Skulltrail” platform, which is built-around server-class hardware reconfigured for gaming.
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Netflix Offers Unlimited Online Viewing — Initially offered to new customers, Netflix has started providing select, existing subscribers unlimited online viewing. I'm not sure this would be economically viable for Netflix in the long-term... However, I can't imagine them rescinding the feature once received.
Associated Press:
Baggage Ban on Batteries Begins — WASHINGTON (AP) — To help reduce the risk of fires, air travelers will no longer be able to pack loose lithium batteries in checked luggage beginning Jan. 1, the Transportation Department said Friday. — Passengers can still check baggage with lithium batteries …
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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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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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
The v2 extender has landed! — DHL dropped off my Linksys DMA2100 Media Center Extender yesterday, and I had it completely set up within 30 minutes. — My first impression was, “Wow, this is small." The v1 extenders were the size of large pizza boxes, and an Xbox 360 has a certain chunkiness to it.
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Megan Pollock / CEA:
MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS OWN A DIGITAL TELEVISION — Milestone of 50% DTV Penetration Arrives as the 2008 International CES Showcases DTV Innovations — More than 50 percent of U.S. households now own a digital television (DTV), according to new research released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®.
