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Realizations like this can come in the oddest way. In both cases, I found out when I double-clicked on Netscape and the browser opened up to my sports site homepage. Just like that, two athletes I had been watching for the past decade, the part of my sports-watching life that I will remember best, were gone, one dead and one mangled...
...MSNBC.com the cable channel's affiliated website, is my mother's brother's wife's aunt's husband's nephew, which obviously makes it difficult for me to evaluate objectively the merits of a merger between a company (AOL) that recently bought the company (Netscape) that makes the Internet browser that competes with the browser of the company that employs me, and a company (Time Warner) that owns a studio (Warner Bros.) that made the movie Wild Wild West, which I saw on an airplane and which is unforgivable...
Many of them won't even have to open a Web browser to go shopping. Internet-ready cell phones already have e-commerce capabilities. Sony's latest terminal for WebTV offers split-screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas gifts without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite@Home's broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say you're watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and it's heading to your door. Excite...
Blaming Microsoft for bundling its own browser with its Windows software is like blaming Henry Ford for installing the internal-combustion engine in all his cars! Imagine if people had to choose an engine separately for a car before they bought it! Since the breakup of AT&T, my phone bills have become astronomical; since Congress "fixed" the cable-TV companies, I have higher bills and fewer channels. Now I wonder what will happen with my computer. Maybe if it ain't broke, don't fix it! SHEILA MARIA KORTLUCKE Lawrence, Kans...
...denied that consumer choice has been stifled, noting that he had no difficulty downloading and using Netscape Navigator, an alternate Web browser...