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Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia

News The idea is that, despite the fact that anyone can work on any article, Wikipedia's content is self-cleaning because its community keeps a close eye on the accuracy of articles and, in most cases, acts quickly to fix errors that find their way...

30 September 2005, 9:03

News.blog: Microsoft plans online storage

News Microsoft is planning to launch an online storage service, according to an article in Fortune magazine. Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data," the article says.

20 April 2006, 9:39

Wikipedia notches up 1 million articles

News The nonprofit team behind Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, is celebrating after the English version racked up its one millionth article. The Wikimedia Foundation announced late on Wednesday that the target had been reached...

3 March 2006, 8:34

Newspapers and the art of Web headlines

News Instead, it was on a blog site that had reposted the article word for word. It happened to be an article about the Green Beans Coffee Co, which serves overseas US military bases, opening its first cafe in the United States.

5 February 2007, 10:08

News.blog: Google founders to fund film

News Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have invested in a low-budget, independent film written and directed by a friend of theirs from Stanford University, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.

30 December 2005, 10:10

News.blog: A canine car-starter

News Well, according to this BBC News article, a woman found she actually needed her dog to start her car. She could only start the car by putting the dog in the front seat, according to the article. We've all heard the odd story about a baby or dog...

28 September 2006, 9:13

Britannica lambasts Wikipedia findings

News The publisher of the venerable encyclopaedia this week released a scathing 20-page rebuttal to a December article in the journal Nature that tallied errors in both Britannica and Wikipedia and found that the Web upstart more than held its own.

27 March 2006, 9:20

Wikipedia's growing pains

News Then, on 1 December, a new flurry of attention came when former MTV VJ and podcasting pioneer Adam Curry was accused of anonymously editing out references to other people's seminal podcasting work in an article about the popular new digital medium.

6 December 2005, 10:04

News.blog: GPS in school uniforms?

News A manufacturer of uniforms is considering adding satellite tracking devices to its line of school clothing so that parents can locate their child's whereabouts at all times, according to an article from the Daily Telegraph in Australia.

23 August 2007, 10:24

'Burning Crusade' boosting PC gaming lift

News A recent New York Times article (registration required) cites NPD figures showing that $203m of PC games were sold at US retailers in the first two months of the year. However, nowhere does the article mention the main reason for the genre's 2007...

25 April 2007, 9:56

Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica, study says

News In particular, Wikipedia has taken hits for its inclusion, for four months, of an anonymously written article linking former journalist John Seigenthaler to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and President John F.

16 December 2005, 10:29

Salesforce.com delays IPO

News Salesforce.com chairman, CEO and founder Marc Benioff were profiled in a lengthy New York Times article on 9 May, covering Benioff's background, the birth of his company and his charitable work. In the article, Benioff side-stepped questions...

18 May 2004, 7:25

German Wikipedia plans to stop vandals

News If someone vandalises an article, the edits would not be approved. As always, anyone will be able to make article edits. Because nearly anyone can edit just about any more than 2 million Wikipedia articles in 229 national versions and have those...

24 August 2006, 9:25

Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 Arcade

News However, the article did confirm that Though no other games were mentioned in the FT article, numerous online reports say the game will come with five games in total, including Boom-Boom Rocket and Feeding Frenzy.

Tags: retail, arcade, man, console

19 October 2007, 8:50

News.blog: Microsoft to make iPod rival?

News BusinessWeek's article speculates that any such device would trade on the strength of the Xbox, rather than simply tackle the iPod on its own turf. The idea is still in the planning stages, and no final decision has been made, the article says.

27 January 2006, 9:46