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- Britannica sues TomTom over map patents
- Britannica sues TomTom over map patentswhat patents were listed in the suite? a link to the patent site would behelpful here.be a real reporter and give us in-depth coverage.please.:).which patent???So i visited the US Patent Office search site, ( uspto.gov )and used "Britannica" as the assignee name.There were 16...
- Tags: Britannica, patent, multimedia, TomTom
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Edelman on 'Deceptive Door Openers' and Ask toolbars
- In a new article posted this morning, Ben Edelman continues his investigation of high-profile companies clogging users computers with junk. Todays target: InterActiveCorps Ask.com, known for its widespread "smiley" toolbars.Last year I blogged about Asks various toolbars and the trinkets Ask uses to get users to install them. ...
- Tags: toolbar, Ask
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Profs warn students against Wikipedia
- Profs warn students against WikipediaWell...Other than the fact that my district blocked access to Wikipedia for some random reason I think professors who "ban" the use of an information source are doing their students a disservice. Considering the relative error rates (2.9 vs 3.9 per article it is surprising these...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Wiki
- Discussion threads 2006-09-16
- Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite 2007
- For more than two centuries, Encyclopedia Britannica has been a trusted reference source for scholars. The $49 Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite 2007 packs volumes of trustworthy information into one application that's friendly to use, especially for text articles. Since last year Britannica has fixed most of the aspects of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating systems, Britannica, Encarta.com, Encyclopedia Britannica
- Product reviews 2006-09-11
- Belatedly, Britannica lambastes Wikipedia findings
- Belatedly, Britannica lambastes Wikipedia findingsWhy not make a superset of both?Britannica should see it as an opportunity. They could take the Wikipedia result set and backfill the free online part of their encyclopedia with omitted articles, and make the improved superset instead.Wikipedia can be used for Commercial or Non Commercial...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Britannica
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica
- Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannicatruth versus perceptionwhat is truth? groups of people view events in different ways. Take the US, for example. Many people would see the expansion to the US as a good thing, the growth of one of the first democratic countries and expansion onto the world...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Britannica
- Discussion threads 2005-12-15
- Is Wikipedia a threat or a menace?
- Is Wikipedia a threat or a menace?I agree...Anybody who uses Wikipedia as a legal/technical reference is asking for trouble, but when it comes to looking up general purpose information it's unbeatable. There's stuff in there which will NEVER make it into Britannica simply because Britannica's edtors won't see it...
- Tags: Wiki, Internet, Cooper, Wikipedia, Britannica
- Discussion threads 2005-12-02
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- Sidekick 1.4.3 (Mac)
- Sidekick provides immediate access to AppleWorks features from a single point: Create a new document without first starting AppleWorks 6. Easily access your most recent documents. Use Mac OS X Services including Look Up in Dictionary, Spotlight, Speak Text, etc Registered users only Search Google, Britannica.com, online dictionaries or...
- Tags: AppleWorks, Apple Macintosh, Sidekick, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- Apple bans bobble head Congress app
- There are few people in this country more desserving of ridicule......than politicians.A couple of observations from Rasmussen:"Only four percent (4%) of voters say most politicians keep their campaign promises. Forty-five percent (45%) believe they deliberately make false promises to get elected.""Voters by more than two-to-one think high congressional reelection rates...
- Tags: Smart phones, U.S. Congress, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iDont
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- Distance learning -Â providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance -Â has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Training, Enrollment, Straighterline, Employee Orientation Training Day, E-learning, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-06
- Will Wikipedia ever be legitimate?
- Probably not.As long as any twit can put their "two cents" in on a subject...it will never be legit.It's legitimate in that it's a good place to startWikipedia works best when being used for "non-legitimate" uses, meaning someone wants to find out something in general but don't want to research...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Will Wikipedia ever be legitimate?
- Wikipedia is so bloody useful! Is it as authoritative as a peer-reviewed journal or the Encyclopedia Britannica? Probably not. However, when was the last time you sat down with you searched the Annals of Microbiology for a high school research paper? by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"
- While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"Did not many people sayincluding the creator of wikipedia (?) that much of the material and sublect matter retained within wikipedia is not to be regarded as 100 percent factual?RE: While I'm away...I kind of liked that Encarta was at least somewhat verified as factual. ...
- Tags: Wiki, Keyword Searches, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Babylon 8.0 r38 (Windows)
- Babylon 8 is the ultimate all-in-one translation solution operated by a single click on your mouse. Simply click on a word or text in any desktop application and get instant translation results into 75 languages. Translation of full texts, Web pages and comprehensive documents is supported by 31 languages. All...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Translation, Dictionary, Babylon, Babylon 8, Wiki, Mice, Desktops, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2009-06-11
- Britannica Mobile 1.0 (Mobile)
- delivers 28,000 clearly written entries covering various branches of human knowledge, such as science, history, business, art, culture, geography, and geology, as well as more contemporary issues, such as cloning, terrorism, and globalization. Britannica, the most trusted info source, has included over 2000 lavish photographs, maps, tables, drawings, and color...
- Tags: Mobile, Knowledge, Globalization, Homeland Security, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Government, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-06-04
- Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?
- Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?Not Even CloseIt is very lacking in knowing dates of history. Take for example that it doesn't know that May 6th, 1937 is the day the Hindenburg crashed at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. That is a major day in history and any Google search...
- Tags: Wiki, PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia-killer
- Discussion threads 2009-05-17
- Hologram technology: the sub-atomic future of storage?
- I was recently talking to some folks at Google about storage, specifically the amount of data that's being stored on the cloud as users upload things like photos and YouTube video clips. Gigabytes. Terabytes. Petabytes. I couldn't help but wonder, as we talked about all of this...
- Tags: Hologram, Stanford, Beam, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Editing Crowd Sourced Content: the Wikipedia Discussion
- Best Buy, the retail box store and internet source for electronics, televisions, DVD players, home & car audio, computers, cameras, music, movies, software, games etc is at the cutting edge of modern online technologies and facilitating their use by as many purchase prospects as possible. The embedded...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- The Paparazzi Social Media Problem
- Jevon McDonald, someone whose opinions I rate highly, has posted a stellar piece on 'The uncertain future of Blogging' today. The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned by blogging. Blogging was the conversation, blogging was the vehicle, blogging was the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Blog, Jevon, Blogging, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Britannica Trivia Challenge (Mobile)
- You think you know it all? Think again.Carry more than 2,800 trivia questions and answers around in your pocket and test your knowledge on the go with the Britannica Trivia Challenge Handheld Edition! Derived from one of the world's greatest sources of knowledge, this unique challenge taps into the universal...
- Tags: Trivia, Mobile, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2008-11-02
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