The Biggest Tech Flops of the Decade

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CueCat

DIGITAL CONVERGENCE

This feline launched to link print publications and the Web. Scanning codes on a printed page took readers to related material online. That saved the not-so-extraordinary effort of typing a URL—and only when leashed to a PC. CueCat soon died except as bar-code reader sold on auction sites.

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