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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

News Item edited by Thomas Koeppen Many companies have historically utilized transactional-based business strategies and have established a litany of processes to ensure their success. These companies do not encourage innovation and choose to rely on processes as a highly controlled mechanism to address predefined problems. In these environments, the concept of employee ownership rarely [...]

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 [...]

News Item edited by Thomas Koeppen This is the first time a UK broadcaster has provided an on-demand streaming service for all three platforms. Each week there will be around 250 different programmes available to watch via the iPlayer streaming service for seven days after they are first broadcast. The streaming version of iPlayer will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

News Item added by Thomas Koeppen i found an fantastic description of Marc Andreessen (Founder of Ning – the social network and co-author of Mosaic – the browser) on hiring people: First, drive. I define drive as self-motivation – people who will walk right through brick walls, on their own power, without having to be [...]