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Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and email software package dating back to the Netscape era, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began work on a simplified browser initially called Phoenix. [10 Nov 2009]
HP welcomes Marc Andreessen to board
News Since then, Andreessen, best known as the co-founder of Netscape, has helmed social network creation service Ning, and a new venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz. Two years after selling his software company to HP,... [18 Sep 2009]
IE slips again as Firefox takes over one in four browsers
News Though IE remains dominant, rivals are racing to build in new features to make the web a better foundation for applications - the vision Netscape had back in the first generation of browser wars of the 1990s. [03 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital group was launched in July by Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. Ecommerce giant eBay announced on... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News The investment group will reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital group launched in July by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. [01 Sep 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News It's an unusual reunion for Reback, who marshalled industry opposition to Microsoft's efforts to squeeze Netscape from the browser business. The Internet Archive is enlisting some heavy hitters in its challenge of... [21 Aug 2009]
Businesses' XP addiction is keeping Microsoft from killing IE 6
News After reaching near ubiquity in the post-Netscape era, IE's global market share is now less than 70 per cent. It's been roughly eight years since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6, but in many ways the company is... [14 Aug 2009]
Firefox reaches one billion - browser wars in full swing
News That's because after years of near-dormancy after IE crushed Netscape in the 1990s, the browser wars are back in full swing. At about 8:00(PDT) on Friday, Firefox crossed the billion-download threshold - a notably large... [03 Aug 2009]
What Is a Cookie?
White Paper The two main browsers, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, both allow the use of cookies. Cookies are employed when one uses the browser to visit web sites on the Internet. Cookie files allow a web server to store... [01 May 2009]
Software Architecture as a Discipline
White Paper In addition to these schools, there are many vendor-driven approaches that are tied to specific product lines, such as Netscape ONE, Sun Enterprise Java Beans, and Microsoft Back Office. Alternative architecture... [23 Mar 2009]
Single Sign-On Deployment Guide
White Paper Intranet users are commonly required to use a separate password to authenticate themselves to each server they need to access in the course of their work. Multiple passwords are an ongoing headache for both users and system administrators. [02 Sep 2008]
Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment Some are quaint: "UK cashpoints to take smartcards" while some are reminders of battles all but forgotten: "Microsoft browser overtakes Netscape rival". silicon.com is 10 years old this week, which prompted me to take a... [11 Jul 2008]
Happy 10th birthday Mozilla - there's a bug in your cake
News On 22 January, 1998, Netscape Communications Corporation announced its plans to make the source code for the Netscape Communicator client software available with free licensing on the internet. Mozilla,... [25 Jan 2008]
AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser
News The Netscape web browser has long since been eclipsed by its Firefox offshoot but AOL has announced it's formally pulling the plug on its historic software. Netscape's Tom Drapeau wrote in a blog: "AOL's... [02 Jan 2008]
Blake Ross
AS Profile He famously joined Netscape as a 14-year-old intern and has recently sold his company Parakey - which takes desktop apps to the web - to Facebook. At the tender age of 22, Blake Ross makes his debut in the rankings... [12 Oct 2007]
