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Enterprise Browsers Reignite the Browser Wars, But This Time for Businesses

Forrester IT

I’ve been in the IT industry long enough to remember the start of the Browser Wars when Internet Explorer took on Netscape in the late 1990s. Product names like Mosaic, Netscape, “IE”, and Mozilla (and its next iteration with Firefox) were all part of the browser market development. Safari came along for Mac in 2003, […].

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Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

The Verge

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. In 2003, Amazon, for the first time in its history, turned an annual profit of $75 million. Shaw & Co. Prime time.

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Why the SpaceX spacewalk is such a huge deal

Vox

The goal of the Polaris mission series is to help SpaceX develop the skills and technology needed to achieve its longer term goals of sending humans to Mars. It was during reentry that NASA’s Columbia space shuttle was destroyed in 2003.

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Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money

The Verge

That means reducing investment in other areas, though, such as in building out developer tools. She became CEO in April and was appointed interim CEO in December 2019; Baker has been the chair of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003. “I Firefox is also getting a stronger focus on user growth “through differentiated user experiences.”

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Maybe we’re all supposed to live there. And maybe it’s got something to do with NFTs ?

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The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

and virtual worlds | Main | Strategy in a networked world for professional service firms » The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? Ross Dawson, December 11, 2007 2:04 PM US PT Several media executives have asked me about the convergence of the Internet and TV over the last couple of months.

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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable.