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Creative Concept Car Designs

Danielle — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:18:35 +0000

According to Wikipedia, a concept car is a car prototype made to showcase a concept, new styling, technology and more. Here at Toxel, we also believe that concept cars are made to...

Edit your DNA: `Gene wiki' to debut on Wikipedia

AP — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:10:46 +0000

Researchers plan to create a library of human genetics, with entries on the workings of individual genes, and make it available for anyone in Wikipedia rather than in an obscure academic format.Authors of the “gene wiki” say they have...

The Wiki-Way to the Nomination

Pooja — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:20:50 +0000

Barack Obama is the victor, and the Internet is taking the bows. Commenting on the Democratic presidential primary campaign, the blogger Andrew Sullivan praised Mr. Obama’s success in mastering “Facebook politics.” Roger Cohen, writing...

New Comoki app ready to kick iPodia butt

Asmita — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:43:19 +0000

Wiki-addicts just got another proverbial shot in the arm. Apparently Comoki have deiced to make the Wikipedia experience on the iPhone a little bit less tiresome and a move that claims to kick some major iPodia butt, have announced that they will...

Once Discorded By Academics, Wikipedia Now A Teaching Tool

Matz — Sun, 11 May 2008 18:41:48 +0000

Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.

Israeli battles rage on Wikipedia

Andrew — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:41:22 +0000

The conflict in the Middle East has spread to the internet with Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups using Wikipedia, the electronic encyclopedia, to push their message.

Internet's Wikipedia to go print in Germany: publisher

Holly — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:48:21 +0000

German publishing giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday it planned to publish the world’s first reference book based on entries from Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. Until now, Wikipedia was best known for compiling writing on thousands...

Publisher plans printed version of Wikipedia

AP — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:08:23 +0000

In a move combining user-created online encyclopedias with the printed page, Germany’s Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of...

Sloan Foundation to Give Wikipedia $3M

AP — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:29:57 +0000

The nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, the mammoth Internet encyclopedia built by volunteers, is getting its largest donation ever _ $3 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The award, to come in $1 million installments over each of the next...

Wikipedia Questions Paths to More Money

AP — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:27:46 +0000

Scroll the list of the 10 most popular Web sites in the U.S., and you’ll encounter the Internet’s richest corporate players _ names like Yahoo, Amazon.com, News Corp., Microsoft and Google.Except for No. 7: Wikipedia. And there lies a...