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...original iPhone was a high-tech indulgence. From its gorgeous touchscreen to its classy Web browser, it set a new bar for the look and feel of mobile phones. Naysayers nitpicked about its technical shortcomings - and its top-shelf price - but its breakthrough design won it millions of fans nonetheless...
...have Firefox 3 yet? Since June 17, more than 22 million folks have downloaded the latest version of the Web's second most popular browser. (If you're not among them, hie thee to www.getfirefox.com I'll wait for you.) While Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the most installed browser in the world--mainly because it ships on the vast majority of new PCs--Firefox is the one that tech folks tend to love. Free, open source and built by thousands of volunteers worldwide, Firefox is kind of the Web's home-team favorite--as independent and full...
...Internet missile coming, of course. But by the time he sounded the alarm, it may have been too late. (Read his famous "Internet Tidal Wave" memo, sent to the troops May 26, 1995, over a year after the browser company known as Netscape launched...
...even for a visionary like Bill Gates. By the time he realized the tech world was quickly shifting from PCs to the network that connected them, his moves were limited. A fiercely competitive man, he reached for the obvious lever, and attempted to tie the late-starter Internet Explorer browser to the monopoly he created, the Windows operating system. The move was mercilessly effective and beat back rival Netscape, which immediately saw its commanding share of the browser market disappear...
...convenient lack of memory about key business decisions - turned out to be short-lived and is all but forgotten as Gates remakes himself as a philanthropist. But the court's decree forced the great general to march cautiously into the future. He may have won the Battle of the Browser, but he would start to see major casualties in the Internet...