Tiny Reader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket
Wired News - Thu Dec 3, 6:46 pm ETWikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
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265 Stories, most recent news story added Sun Nov 29, 6:00 pm ET
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German killers sue Wikipedia's parent, demanding anonymity
Denver Post - Sun Nov 15, 3:32 am ETWolfgang Werle and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them.
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Wikipedia Runs Ads Highlighting Their No-Ad Policy
TechCrunch - Sat Nov 14, 8:26 pm ETMoments after Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins the Wikimedia/Wikipedia advisory board things start to go crazy. Way back in 2006 Jason Calacanis, then an executive at AOL, was trying to convince Wikipedia to puts ads on the site. It would generate $100 million a year in revenue, he said, which could fund the project and other charities: I sat next to Jimbo at a Wikipedia dinner over the ...
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Math is beautiful. ‘The Wire' is ugly.
Everett Herald - Wed Nov 18, 7:44 pm ETOK, math nerds, this one is for you: It's a 3D examination of the Mandelbrot set, a mathematical term named after Benoit Mandelbrot, a French American mathematician, best known as the “father of fractal geometry,” according to Wikipedia.
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Calvin College's January Series will include co-founder of Wikipedia and Rich DeVos
The Grand Rapids Press - Tue Nov 17, 3:05 pm ETAn African economist, a current member of Egypt's parliament and a past pastor of a multi-cultural church in Chicago all are coming to Calvin College in January.
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Click4Care wins award for ‘greatest market potential’ at health IT conference
MedCity News - Wed Nov 18, 4:18 pm ETImage via Wikipedia POWELL, Ohio -- Care-management software firm Click4Care won an award for "greatest market potential" at an health information technology summit held in California last week. Industry executives attending the Healthcare IT Summit voted for the Columbus-area company as the greatest market potential winner in the insurance category, according to a statement from Click4Care. "We ...
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Cover-up aims to alter the past
The Western Courier - Wed Nov 18, 1:48 pm ETIn war they say that history is always written by the victor, however, German law seems to take a different approach to how history should be written. Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, two German men who were convicted of killing a German actor in 1990, are suing Wikipedia to remove their names from articles connected with the murder.
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Mr. T-inspired weapon available in World of Warcraft
Network World - Wed Nov 18, 5:01 am ETMr. T has lived the life of an ass-kicker. B. A. Baracus was the reason to watch the A-Team. Clubber Lang was the only character to knock out Rocky Balboa. His wikipedia page features a picture of first lady Nancy Reagan sitting on his lap. So you can understand that when he starred in a World of Warcraft commercial (YouTube) and proclaimed there be new additions to the game, that Activision ...
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins advisory group for nonprofit that runs Wikipedia
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Fri Nov 13, 12:36 pm ETSAN FRANCISCO - The nonprofit group that runs online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Friday that it named Craig Newmark, the founder of Web classifieds site Craigslist, to its advisory board.
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Babylon 8 - Leading the World of Languages
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 18, 8:00 am ETBabylon Ltd., the leading provider of single-click translation and dictionary software, enhances its content and now provides access to over 1,500 free dictionaries, encyclopedias and translation sources in over 75 languages, access to Wikipedia in over 23 languages and access to brand-name dictionaries and thesauruses.
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Flook Sends Open Letter to Editors of Wikipedia
PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 29, 6:00 pm ETFlook welcomes departing Wikipedia editors
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Faith column: Whom do you thank?
Greeley Tribune - Sat Nov 28, 3:05 am ETAnother Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. Did you give thanks? If so, to whom? Wikipedia defines Thanksgiving as "a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general." That free online dictionary also informs us that "while perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday." In light of these statements, consider the following ...
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Report: Wikipedia losing volunteers
CNET - Mon Nov 23, 12:53 pm ETThe online encyclopedia's volunteers, who write, edit, and fact-check, are dropping out at a suddenly quickened pace, says The Wall Street Journal.
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Founder of Wikipedia Creates Website to Aid Homeless People
NBC 15 Mobile - Sat Nov 21, 12:29 pm ETThe founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless.
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Wikipedia founder creates help site for homeless
ABC 7 Gulfshore News - Sat Nov 21, 9:10 am ETTAMPA: The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless.
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Lawmakers grapple with state’s budget deficit
Queens Chronicle - Mon Nov 23, 9:02 am ETBudget negotiations at the capitol have reached an impasse over health and education cuts. WIKIPEDIA Lawmakers in Albany are on familiar ground again after Gov. David Paterson ordered a series of extraordinary sessions to resolve this year’s nearly $4 billion budget deficit.
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December 4, 2009: Blade Runner
Wed Dec 31, 7:00 pm EST'' Blade Runner '' is a 1982 American science fiction ...
