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<title>English Wikipedia gets e-book export feature</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/18/users.can.now.collate.and.export.to.epub/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google+ snags top spot in service index</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/17/ahead.of.facebook.linkedin.pinterest/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1107/googleplus-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google+ topped other popular sites in the American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business Report. As Bloomberg details, Google+ tied socially-editable encyclopedia Wikipedia with a score of 78 out of a possible 100. Google's "social layer" attained higher customer satisfaction scores than Facebook, even though Facebook maintains an overwhelming lead in terms of user base....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wikimedia to start Wikipedia of travel guides?</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/wikipediamobilein.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Wikipedia may create its own travel guide that would compete with books such as Lonely Planet. According to Skift, the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees discussed the possibility of a publicly-edited free travel guide service, and will decide the proposal's fate in six weeks time after a public consultation, although some suggest it is effectively already decided....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dolphin Browser gets voice commands; Wikipedia Mobile absent</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/dolphin4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[An alternative to the iOS version of Safari, Dolphin Browser, has received a major update, v4.0.  Core to the upgrade is Dolphin Sonar, which enables voice commands for functions like search, navigation, bookmarking, and sharing to social networks.  Sonar is activated by shaking an iPhone or just tapping the appropriate button....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Encyclopaedia Brtiannica stops print edition in Internet era</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/encyclopaediabritannica.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Encyclopaedia Britannica ended one of the longest print runs in history by revealing in an interview that the last print edition of its collection was going off the presses.  The 2010 edition currently being sold for $1,395 will be the last print copy, the New York Times was told, with the remaining 4,000 copies out of 12,000 being cleared out.  Attention would shift more towards the online versio...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google patents continuous gesture tech for touchscreens</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/googlegesturepatentin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google has filed a new patent with the USPTO that relates to touchscreen-based web searches on mobile devices. Rather than copying and pasting some text into a search engine, the tech will initiate Google web searches when users draw a lower-case 'g' on the screen and then continue on to circle the text or image they want to learn more about. The patent also makes mention of searching other source...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Orange gives free Wikipedia access to Africa, Middle East</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/wikipediamobilein.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Wireless provider Orange will give free access to Wikipedia from mobile devices in the Middle East and Africa. This will give millions of users access to the digital, user-generated encyclopedia without incurring data charges. Orange said this deal is the first of its kind....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PIPA, SOPA bills postponed after protests</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/congress-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Both Congress and the Senate have delayed votes on their joint controversial Senate majority leader Harry Reid has stated that he decided to at least delay the vote on the controversial Protect IP Act (PIPA).  He explained it as a reaction to "recent events," a euphemism for the widescale protests that turned numerous Senators against the bill....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SOPA protests make US Senate website buckle </title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/senatein.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[It appears the work of many sites is working, as the US Senate contact site is facing technical difficulties, likely due to the large incoming amount of e-mails regarding the controversial SOPA bill. Many sites, including Google and Wikipedia, posted some form of protest against SOPA on Wednesday in order to raise public awareness regarding the issue and urge them to do something about it....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google to use its homepage to protest SOPA </title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/googlein.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[In its effort to protest the controversial SOPA bill, Google will host a link to an explanation of its opposition on its popular home page. The link will go live on Wednesday, according to CNET, and thus join Wikipedia, Reddit and other tech firms in showing their disagreement for SOPA and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), both of which were spurred on by movie studios and music labels....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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