netscape in comment and analysis
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 look through the archives... [11 Jul 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 because of his potential to... [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: VMWare's IPO
Comment And I would call that madness - especially given EMC's strength in so many areas now - rather than start celebrating the 'next Google' or the 'next Netscape'. It was with a furrowed brow that I read some of the many hundreds of headlines over the... [15 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07
Round-Up The original IE launched in 1995 as a competitor to Netscape and so the browser wars were born. If your sole hope in opening this week's Round-Up was to discover by chance which technology has been voted the 'most influential' of the past 25 years... [03 Aug 2007]
Kevin Rose
AS Profile Digg is backed by some of the biggest names in IT, with $2.8m in funding from Omidyar Network, an investment company set up by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. Why? Shaking up online news [25 Sep 2006]
Omid Kordestani
AS Profile A veteran of companies including HP and internet pioneer Netscape, Kordestani was praised by the Agenda Setters panel for being the behind-the-scenes deal maker who will take Google to "the next stage". [25 Sep 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
Comment At the peak of its strength, it pulled back from the challenge to Microsoft that would have been possible using its newly purchased Netscape assets. But will it be able to succeed where so many others have failed? [20 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The fate of AOL
Comment When it bought Netscape, it might even have challenged the dominant Internet Explorer web browser. Once seen as a leader of the new connected world, AOL now seems to be a waif looking for a good home. [20 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.08.05
Round-Up These days, rather than repeatedly kick Microsoft and Netscape's derrieres around the compliance paddock, the group takes a less confrontational approach and works closely with software companies like Macromedia and Microsoft before products are... [09 Aug 2005]
How Microsoft keeps its edge
Comment And it took Microsoft three long tries to catch up to Netscape in the web browser business. Charles Cooper looks at how Redmond pulls off this feat. There's something about the slow-starter strategy that works like an absolute charm for Microsoft. [15 Oct 2004]
IM the way to beat Apple in online music?
Comment Its latest AOL Instant Messenger, version 5.9, includes a button to a Netscape-branded online radio stream. New entrants to online music such as Yahoo! and Microsoft are using instant messaging to boost their chances of beating Apple, says Jim Hu. [23 Sep 2004]
Analysis: Enterprise IM a tough sell
Comment While AOL generates most of its revenue from subscriptions, it has long tried to grow the software sales business that it inherited from its acquisition of Netscape in 1998. Why have two major consumer instant-messaging providers, Yahoo and AOL... [24 Jun 2004]
Leader: Don't be fooled by renewed dot-com hype
Leader Some are comparing this to Netscape's offering in 1995, the accepted beginning of the 1990s internet gold rush. Are we ramping up for another dot-com boom? Note the following evidence. A big internet name, Google, is on the verge of a billion... [17 May 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.03.04
Round-Up The DoJ case focused on Microsoft's practice of bundling its Internet Explorer browser in Windows and the desktop thereby giving it an unfair advantage over rival browsers - namely Netscape. Half a billion euros: the bill Microsoft will pick up... [26 Mar 2004]
Leader: Google IPO a sign of things to come
Leader A flotation could be a watershed event for the tech industry on a par with Netscape's public offering in 1995. Google has finally started the IPO ball rolling. Although the plans are in the early stages the Google could float as early as March next... [24 Oct 2003]
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