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Best Selling ! Britannica World Religions
Downloads Complete coverage of the world's religions.The Britannica World Religions Handheld Edition contains 3,450 authoritative entries that entail a variety of topics, including religious movements, concepts, historical and legendary figures...
[April 15, 2005, 8:00]
Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia
Downloads Britannica's Elementary Encyclopedia provides easy-to-understand articles on everything from treatments for the flu (influenza) to how lightning develops to the dinosaurs that roamed the earth during the Mesozoic era to how many square miles...
[December 11, 2004, 6:00]
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia for Palm OS
Downloads The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia 2005 Handheld Edition, with nearly 25,000 entries that are ideally suited for PDAs, covers key topics that you encounter everyday: Arts, Business, Geography, History, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics...
[February 28, 2005, 7:00]
Britannica.com launch, take two
News Britannica.com, the online arm of legendary Encyclopaedia Britannica, will re-launch its highly promoted Web site on Monday. The good news is we have wonderful demand," said Kent Devereaux, senior vice president of product development for...
[October 28, 1999, 11:12]
Britannica tops Wikipedia in accuracy stakes
News Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.
[December 16, 2005, 8:25]
Britannica Traveler
Downloads Enables quick searches of the entire Britannica database and access to specific articles via a wireless connection to the Britannica.com server.
[August 22, 2000, 8:00]
Encyclopedia Britannica World Traveler
Downloads Britannica Encyclopedia, the worlds most trusted reference source brings the latest information on countries around the globe. Become an expert on any country! Heres the perfect resource for students and world travelers.
[February 14, 2008, 6:00]
Compton's by Encyclopædia Britannica
Downloads Compton's by Encyclopdia Britannica 2005 Handheld Edition features authoritative articles from the editors at Britannica covering art, history, geography, technology, pop culture, and more. Bible College to lyrebirdM (1,217 entries, 557 images...
[December 11, 2004, 6:00]
Encyclopaedia Britannica now free
News Encyclopaedia Britannica is expected to announce Tuesday that it plans to split off its digital properties into a separate company and overhaul its Britannica.com Web site, making the encyclopedia's database free to users for the first time.
[October 19, 1999, 16:31]
Britannica tops Wikipedia in accuracy stakes
Talkback I think its a great tool, I recommend it to my students, and although it may not be quite as authoritative, one big difference you may be forgetting in comparing it with Britannica, is that Britannica is not free to use!
[December 16, 2005, 22:42]
The Human Capital "Impact" on E-Business: The Case of Encyclopedia Britannica
White Papers This case study gives an overview of the 'new economy' before undertaking a detailed case study of how Encyclopedia Britannica has adjusted its operations to reflect the trend towards the provision of information via the internet and CD Rom.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Britannica tops Wikipedia in accuracy stakes
Talkback China is blocking Wiki from day one. How great a government.
[December 19, 2005, 11:53]
Encyclopedia English
Downloads Over 1.5 million articles, 100 times as many articles as in Concise Encyclopedia Britannica. Hundred times as many articles as in Concise Encyclopedia Britannica. Fifteen times as many articles as in the 17 volume paper edition of Encyclopedia...
[March 19, 2008, 12:59]
Wikipedia review
Reviews After all, you won't find pictures of Carhenge (a Stonehenge-like structure made out of sedans) or a biography of Captain Kirk (Starfleet serial number SC 937-0176 CEC), in Encyclopedia Britannica or Encarta.
[October 28, 2005, 15:40]
Cursors face defining moments on the Web
News Now it is taking its technology a step further, offering cursor information tools in partnership with Britannica.com, Houghton Mifflin, Rolling Stone and others. By pointing and clicking on any word on a Web page, surfers using the tool can pull up...
[January 29, 2001, 17:14]
Wikipedia vows to improve quality
News We got pretty lucky," Wales said in reference to Nature's assessment, which found that Wikipedia had four errors per sampled entry versus three errors for Encyclopedia Britannica. Although we have that as a goal, we are not as good as Britannica...
[August 7, 2006, 9:20]
Subscription for content is new Net trend Pt II
News Encyclopaedia Britannica, which went with a free model when it launched its Web site in October 1999, said it now believes consumer attitudes are ripe to begin a for-pay service. But things change," said a representative from Britannica.com, which...
[March 30, 2001, 13:54]
Encarta will go free online within six to 12 months
News Microsoft's move follows Encyclopaedia Britannica's decision to put its 32 volumes on the Net for free last month. Hulse was critical of Encyclopaedia Britannica's decision to move online. Britannica did not have a comment by press time.
[November 1, 1999, 12:48]
We all live in a Windows submarine...
Talkback RUE BRITANNICA! Trusting any Microsoft product where lives are at stake is extremely short sighted. Wasn't the FAA's nearly catastrophic loss of communications between controllers and aircraft due to the replacement of a working Unix system with a...
[October 25, 2004, 21:12]
Start-Up Outsources to China 'For the Best Brains' to Implement ITO 2.0
White Papers Perhaps the best example is the rise of Wikipedia, which harnessed the collective intelligence of people around the world to produce a reference that rivals the Encyclopedia Britannica. Harnessing the collective intelligence of people has the...
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
