6 posts and columns on Mosaic

New BlackBerry Browser Thankfully More Like Safari Than Mosaic

in Mobile on February 16, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

The mobile browsing experience on Research in Motion’s BlackBerry is widely considered among the worst around. Inefficient and miserably slow, it is easily bested not just by the browsers of rival smartphones like Apple’s iPhone, but by third-party alternatives like Opera Mini. So long-suffering BlackBerry owners will be glad to hear that an all-new Web browser is on the way.

HP Names Golden Geek to Board of Directors

in Social on September 18, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Silicon Valley luminary and Golden Geek cover model Marc Andreessen is adding another gig to his CV: Hewlett-Packard director. Andreessen, who sold his software company, Opsware, to HP two years ago for $1.6 billion, will begin serving on the board immediately, bringing its total number of directors to 11.
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Get Me Rewrite! Boston Globe Union Rejects New York Times Pay Cut

in Media on June 8, 2009 at 8:10 pm PT

Remember a month ago, when the New York Times said it had reached an agreement with a holdout union at the Boston Globe, which would prevent a shutdown of the Times-owned paper? Scratch that. Deal’s off.
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in News on May 14, 2009 at 3:10 pm PT

New From AOL: Netscape Terminator 9

in News on February 21, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Netscape’s long day’s journey into irrelevance is nearly over. Come March, the storied browser–born in 1994 out of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ groundbreaking Mosaic–will be officially pensioned off, a paltry 0.61% share the only testament to its long-faded market dominance. After extending support for Netscape for an additional month after first declaring it [...]