Thomas Koeppen Blog

Netscape browser, 1994-2007
AOL will end support for Netscape browsers on Feb. 1, 2008, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com.
We all nearly forget the good old netscape after switching to the great firefox.

Love the great Firefox!
Enjoy a Better Web Experience
Firefox 2 delivers helpful new features to [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc quietly canceled its online video download service on 12/21 less than a year after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett Packard Co discontinued the technology that powered it, Walmart.com spokeswoman Amy Colella said in an e-mail. She [...]

In August 2005 the search giant Google acquired the startup Android for Its Mobile Arsenal,
netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, “the next frontier in search”.
Now two years later (in November 2007) Google announced their Open Handset Alliance:

http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

Instead of using the standards-based Java Micro Edition (JME) as an engine to run Java [...]

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i just watched for fun the difference between linux and windows video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ

and now youtube.com response with “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”
How are all massive traffic sites like YouTube, Facebook, Myspace prepared for scalability and stability ?
Today we are much more dependend from online media, social networks in our transition from offline-desktop usage to our web centric online [...]

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Consulting Group Releases Top 10 Predictions For The Wireless Industry
InCode, a subsidiary of VeriSign that specializes in wireless business and technology consulting, on Wednesday released its top 10 predictions for major trends in the wireless industry next year.
Verizon Wireless last month shocked the U.S. wireless industry, announcing that starting next year it will open up [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks, in partnership with the Heinrich Hertz Institut (HHI), reported mobile data rates up to 173 Mbps in a multi-user field trial of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in an urban environment using the 2.6 GHz spectrum band.
Nokia Siemens Networks said the test confirms that LTE performance requirements can be met using 3GPP [...]

CTIA Wireless starts blogging, welcome to the blogosphere:
see: http://www.ctia.org/blog/

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