Tag: CLOSING

For months now, we've known this day was coming. But that doesn't make saying goodbye any easier. Geocities, the granddaddy of homepage-hosting services, is shutting down today. Not only will the service become obsolete, but all its data will be permanently deleted, too. Geocities has walked a long road, from pioneering Internet self-publishing, to selling out to Yahoo!, to total irrelevance, ...

To an icon in the consumer electronics retail space, we wave goodbye. And for the hordes of employees already / soon to be looking for new uniforms elsewhere, we empathize. Circuit City has just announced that on March 8th, all of its stores will lock up for the last time. Granted, some locations have already shut their doors in permanent fashion due to stock depletion, but regardless of ...

Not that we haven't seen Web sites hacked in good fun before, but this is downright disturbing. Just hours after getting word that the many faces of Tweeter were all fading away into the sunset (to put it nicely), an apparently disgruntled employee has showcased his / her 1337 hax0r skills by totally transforming Tweeter.com's main page. Let's just say it's less than becoming, but the full ...

Apple's Steve Jobs is a bit of an enigmatic figure -- respected by most folks, but frequently maligned at the same time for his notorious temper; creative-minded, but also conservative, especially in his choice of attire. These are some of the reasons that has made an admittedly fake blog written by a journalist posing as the man so popular. Yesterday, sadly, was the last post for 'The Secret ...