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AOL TO PULL PLUG ON NETSCAPE.(Business)
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The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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December 31, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 The Cincinnati Post. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Development of Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser, will end Feb. 1.
Its current caretakers, Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, decided to kill further development and technical support to focus on the company's growth as an advertising business. People will still be able to download and use the Netscape browser indefinitely, but AOL will stop releasing security and other updates on Feb. 1. A separate Netscape Web portal, which has had several incarnations in recent years, will continue to operate.
Use of Netscape, the launch pad of the Internet boom 13 years ago, dwindled when Microsoft Corp. ...
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