Troubled Internet company Lycos is shutting down its email service and website creation and hosting service Tripod, the company is saying via emails to users that begin with "We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities." Both services will be discontinued as of February 15 2009. Both were early Internet services but have languished under heavy competition from better known and better financed rivals. Tripod has actually been around since   read more »