A MIAMI teenager is basking in the glory of helping to create a new internet browser at 17 that is now challenging the grip of Microsoft, which once held a virtual monopoly on web surfing. [via ActiveWin.com - Is this internet prodigy about to knock Microsoft off its pedestal?]
Or so says The Times Online. Perhaps it is a slim time of year for news but a browser with a very low market share hardly seems to merit a full page article and leader item. The lad hardly seems to merit the praise heaped upon him either, as he says himself, he's only one of a team and left before the project was/is finished.
What is more interesting is the articles are heavy handed at bashing Microsoft. The Times is part owned by the Murdoch empire that also has a stake in BSkyB (Sky) who put out a story at the weekend that they had patents on PVR technology for automatically removing adverts. Media land are rattling sabres at each other.