Archives: Wikipedia Hits 10 Million Truthy Entries

Posted by Ben Worthen
Truthiness – facts most people feel are right even if they aren’t – is taking over the Internet: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can add to or edit, hit its 10 millionth entry last week.

Wikipedia now has 10 million mostly-right entries

Wikipedia has become the go-to Web site for everyone from […]

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This guy just lost a lot of friends

* Earlier today, we wrote that the first computer broken into at the “hacker Super Bowl” was a Mac running Apple’s operating system. It took a hacker two minutes to compromise that machine. The other computers in the contest – PCs running MicrosoftÂ’s Windows operating […]

Posted by Pui-Wing Tam
For the past few months, the Business Technology Blog has been tracking the signs of how there may be a weakening in tech spending growth this year. Now add a new survey by RBC Capital Markets to the mix.

Something is about to hit this when it comes to tech spending

The survey, which […]

Rumors about a Google-branded mobile phone have been circulating for years, with purported photos of prototypes even cropping up on the Web.
CEO Eric Schmidt didn’t dismiss the cellphone hardware rumors directly in his conversation onstage with Walt Mossberg, but he added new detail to Google’s strategy for cellphone offerings. (Mr. Schmidt was the last major […]

Rumors about a Google-branded mobile phone have been circulating for years, with purported photos of prototypes even cropping up on the Web.
CEO Eric Schmidt didn’t dismiss the cellphone hardware rumors directly in his conversation onstage with Walt Mossberg, but he added new detail to Google’s strategy for cellphone offerings. (Mr. Schmidt was the last major […]

After the brouhaha of fashion week dies down, style editors and buyers begin the business of fashion: figuring out what looks should make it onto the covers of magazines and into stores. What you see on the runway won’t always get picked up — and if it does, it often will be altered to be […]

RealNetworks unveiled at D a new version of its media player software that it says will allow consumers to download video clips from thousands of Web sites to their computers’ hard drives (see a video demo). The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin J. Delaney reports that the upgraded RealPlayer software will be available for free in […]

RealNetworks unveiled at D a new version of its media player software that it says will allow consumers to download video clips from thousands of Web sites to their computers’ hard drives (see a video demo). The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin J. Delaney reports that the upgraded RealPlayer software will be available for free in […]

See a selection of boardroom-ready looks that hit the runways in New York, Milan and Paris.

Fashion’s runways are supposed to set trends and gather attention, but the outlandishly dramatic looks can turn off people who are looking for clothes they could see themselves wearing. This season — for fall clothes that will appear in […]

Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman thinks YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are “good guys.”
That $1 billion lawsuit his company filed against YouTube parent Google earlier this year, alleging “massive intentional copyright infringement?” It’s nothing personal.
“I didn’t want to file a lawsuit,” said Mr. Dauman. “I’m all about doing deals.”
Mr. Dauman […]

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