Quoting Michael Lean <m.lean@qut.edu.au>:
> >Instead, the new strategy calls for Netscape to function as a hub
> >for Time Warner media properties, including Fortune and Time magazines and
> >24-hour cable news network CNN. So far, about 18 Time Warner publication
> >and programming sites have been embedded in the toolbar that runs along the
> >top of the Netscape media site.
Realistically, does anyone actually use these kinds of sites? These big portal
pages seem to only get hits when they are preconfigured as browser homepages. In
my experience people interested in news are likely to go directly to CNN, not a
'hub' page (especially one with eighteen sites crammed into a toolbar).
> >Netscape is also broadening its reach
> >beyond the PC and has also recently struck deals for its browser to be used
> >in Sony's PlayStation2 and in Gateway's Touchpad. (Reuters 6 Jun 2001)
> >http://news.excite.com/news/r/010606/01/net-tech-netscape-dc
That sounds like it has more potential. I wonder if they'll use Mozilla, or some
stripped down communicator? And if you don't get an option to run IE on the PS2,
can Microsoft sue?
L8r
Luke.
Luke Burton
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