Before Google There Was BackRub  —  Google’s precursor in 1996 was called “BackRub,” a search engine research project headed by Larry Page at the computer science department at Stanford.  BackRub might have been a reference to the underlying algorithm which counts backlinks as affirmative votes …

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Philipp Lenssen
Link:   http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-28-n47.html

Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use  —  Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline …

Source:   Washington Post
Author:   Marc Fisher
Link:   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article…

Web icon set to be discontinued  —  The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users.  —  Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.  —  In the mid-1990s the browser …

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm

Kindle easter eggs: Google Maps cell-based location, picture viewer, and more  —  Apparently, Amazon’s wondrous e-book reader, the Kindle, has more than meets the eye — not unlike some fictional, alien, robotic characters which shall not be named.  Users of the device have been plumbing its depths …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Joshua Topolsky
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/28/kindle-easter-eggs…

GPS baby Jesus stolen again, found across the street  —  Maybe next year they can just spring for an RFID baby Jesus.  The folks in Florida noticed that their GPS-equipped baby Jesus we mentioned the other day was missing from his nativity, and fired up the old GPS tracker.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Paul Miller
Link:   […]

Apple readying HD Radio push for Macworld  —  iLounge has learned that Apple plans a push for iTunes Tagging-ready, HD Radio-equipped boomboxes with iPod docks during the mid-January Macworld Expo event in San Francisco, California.  Announced in September, iTunes Tagging is a new HD Radio feature designed …

Source:   iLounge
Author:   Charles Starrett
Link:   http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple…

More Americans Creating Content Online  —  Thirty-Two Percent Call Themselves Broadcasters  —  Close to 40 percent (38%) of Americans are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones for entertainment and 45 percent are creating Web sites, music, videos and blogs, according to a survey from Deloitte & Touche.

Source:   WebProNews - eBusiness […]

A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development  —  Please observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser.  Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008.  AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone…

End of Support for Netscape web browsers  —  › tags: AOL, Mozilla, Netscape, Netscape Navigator, NetscapeNavigator, Web Browsers, WebBrowsers  —  AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online.  Throughout its lifetime …

Source:   The Netscape Blog
Author:   Tom Drapeau
Link:   http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support…

The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year  —  Web apps that transcend the Web.  PCs that redefine what a PC can do.  And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of.  We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now.  —  Recommend this story?  —  Yes  —  […]