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Wikipedia’s credence as a fount of reliable knowledge is indubitably dubious. That said, its penchant for community contribution is what’s snowballed the site into a go-to digital destination for most online denizens
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Monmouthpedia: Wikipedia’s very own QR-coated Welsh town (video)
Justin Knapp is probably the hardest working man on the internet after becoming the first person to pass the million-edit-mark on Wikipedia . Since 2005, he’s made around 385 amendments per day, each one taking him around four minutes [Citation Needed]. Founder Jimmy Wales congratulated the 30-year-old on his personal feed and Mr
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Hardest working man on the internet passes one million Wikipedia edits
Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, CyanogenMod gained a new logo, Google acquired a mobile payments company and we learned that the HTC EVO 4G LTE for Sprint will include an embedded SIM card.
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Mobile Miscellany: week of April 2nd, 2012
Tech companies are abandoning Google Maps like rats leaving a sinking ship. Online encylopedia Wikipedia is the latest to abandon Google for OpenStreetMaps
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Wikipedia apps for Android and iPhone ditch Google Maps
It was probably inevitable, but on Tuesday, it became official: the Encyclopaedia Britannica is finally going out of print.
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print
You know the drill, you’re browsing an article about volcanos on your phone and want to know more about Eyjafjallajokull.
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Google’s ‘continuous gesture’ patent application runs circles around copy and paste
Casio Japan has announced the Exilim EX-ZR300, a high-speed CMOS-based 16MP 12.5x zoom compact. The ZR300 features a 24-300mm equivalent zoom and dual ‘Exilim Engine HS’ processors to offer autofocus in as little as 0.12sec and start-up in under 1 sec.
Do you like your cars smart ? Are you itching to drive something a bit more K.I.T.T. than KIA
The ONE Street Tweeter is kind of like a giant, mobile ink-jet printer, only way more political. It wasn’t around in time for the height of the Occupy protests, but made its debut at the G8 Summit
When we’re not looking up at the stars, we’re likely looking at a screen, so any chance to combine those two is greeted with open arms.
NPD DisplaySearch is declaring Apple to be the undisputed champion of the mobile PC business for the first quarter of the year. The fruity phone flinger shipped ( shipped , not sold) 17.2 million mobile PCs in the time, a figure that contentiously includes the iPad
Dell hasn’t been having the greatest of years, and the blows are still as heavy as ever in Round Rock’s fiscal Q1.
3D printing with ABS and other plastics that have a low-melting point are old hat. And, with the price of entry dropping below the $500 mark , soon enough anyone will be able print their own pirated 45s
Charitable entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox has teamed up with Microsoft , TalkTalk , and Simplify Digital to bring a cheaper option for cash-strapped folks in the UK. Starting today, you can buy a refurbished computer with broadband service for a year (with a 40GB monthly cap) for as little as £149 ($240) — and that price drops even lower for people on state benefits. The “Go On UK” initiative also throws in a WiFi router and Windows 7 to further spread that non-profit love around the nation — just like we have going on in the US .
In my view, smartphones are all about the future, and the best handsets are usually the ones with the wildest, slickest mobile technology. Sure, cutting-edge wireless computing rarely comes cheap, especially phones running Google’s latest and greatest version of Android software, Ice Cream Sandwich . Still it’s good to have a dream, and right now I’m fantasizing big time about the best phones money can buy
We’ve seen DNA flirt with computing and storage before, but a biological system that can record digital data? That’s something different
