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- The Know-It-All vs. the Win-It-All
- HERE'S A FACT: You probably don't want to be stuck in an elevator with these two guys. One is the frighteningly omniscient Ken Jennings, 74-time Jeopardy! champ thanks to his huge Encarta-powered brain. The other is Esquire's own A.J. Jacobs, the man who read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and recently...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Science & Technology: A turn up for the books
- People often talk about "open source" in the context of software development; but it's easy to forget that software is only one type of intellectual property. Jimmy Wales hasn't forgotten, though. He's taken the open-source concept and applied it to something else completely: online encyclopedia content. And now, he plans...
- Research articles 2004-03-24
- TEEN PEOPLE'S 2001 Rock 'N Shop Hits the Road for 10-City Summer Tour
- Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--July 19, 2001 HOTTEST FASHIONS, LIVE MUSIC AND NEW R&B/POP GROUP LMNT SET THE STAGE FOR BACK-TO-SCHOOL FASHION PREVIEW Brought to you by the Encarta Challenge 2001 and L'Oreal Open Hair Color Sponsored by Disney Channel TEEN PEOPLE, the award winning pop culture...
- Research articles 2001-07-19
- Look Under "M" for Mess - Company Business and Marketing
- Encyclopaedia Britannica had all the makings of an information-age winner. What went wrong? FOR A COMPANY THAT'S MORE THAN two centuries old, Encyclopaedia Britannica certainly is nimble. Maybe a little too nimble. Consider its online strategy: The venerable publishing enterprise has flip-flopped three times since 1994, announcing its latest...
- Research articles 2001-04-09
- Pages from history
- NEW YORK AP -- Today is the 122nd day of 2000. There are 244 days left in the year. Here are some business and legal highlights from this day in history: In 1786, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premiered in Vienna. In 1931, New...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- THIS JUST IN ...(Company Business and Marketing)
- Prentice Hall and Microsoft are offering teachers special packages of the publisher's social studies textbooks along with selected Encarta multimedia reference software. For example, The American Nation textbook packaged with Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia is now available for half the regular cost of the textbook and software...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- Prentice Hall
- Prentice Hall (PH, Needham, MA), a division of Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has partnered with Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) to offer special packages of PH social studies textbooks and selected Encarta reference software. Products available in the combinations include PH's history, geography and government textbooks and Microsoft's Encarta...
- Research articles 2000-03-01
- Column One: We speak Millennese (but don't ask us how to spell it)
- HOW DO you plan to spend New Year's Day? Well, you could start the day with a speedball, clock up some mouse miles reading v-mail and go out in the evening to see your favourite synthespian in a hotsy film. For those whose vocabulary is rooted in the...
- Research articles 1999-12-28
- Encarta World English Dictionary - CD-ROM/Print - Microsoft
- Microsoft Corporation released in August the first newly written U.S. dictionary in 30 years. The new dictionary took three years in the making. Anne Soukhanov, U.S. editor and world-renowned lexicographer, and Kathy Rooney, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London editor-in-chief, led more than 320 expert editors, lexicographers and consultants from 20 English-speaking...
- Research articles 1999-11-01
- Online Encyclopaedia Britannica is free to all
- AFTER THE Bible, Encyclopaedia Britannica is probably the most famous book in the English-speaking world - and from today all 44 million words, from aardvark to Zoroastrianism, will be free. The ailing Britannica publishing house has decided to revamp itself in the Internet age by offering free...
- Research articles 1999-10-20
- Books: Mother would like a word
- There have been "dictionary wars" in the past, but the current bout must be the most phoney yet. The first "war", between American dictionary pioneers Noam Webster and Joseph Worcester, occupied 25 gruelling years in the middle of the 19th century. The second, between the editor of Webster's Third International...
- Research articles 1999-08-08
- MICROSOFT: Microsoft launches new dictionary.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 June 1999-MICROSOFT: Microsoft launches new dictionary C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:170699 * Encarta World English Dictionary on CD-ROM Is First Newly Written U.S. English Language Dictionary Within the Past 30 Years REDMOND, Wash. -- The last time...
- Research articles 1999-06-18
- British Publisher Plans Electronic World English Dictionary.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 12 -- The more fortunate among us will have escaped, but anyone with a teenager in the house may have heard all too much of it at ear-shattering volume. "Yo, man, mutha-whatting dis an da dissing dat"...
- Research articles 1999-06-11
- Reference tools for 1999.(Encyclopaedia Britannica's CD Multimedia Edition, 1999 Grolier Multimedia Reference Suite CD-ROM, Hammond Atlas of the World CD-ROM, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Expanded Multimedia Edition Vers
- A Buyer's Guide highlights new resource navigation tools designed to bolster the efficiency of student research. The 1999 version of Encyclopaedia Britannica's CD Multimedia Edition features the Ask Britannica tool, which enables students to type in questions in order to be linked to other information resources, as well as chart...
- Research articles 1999-03-01
- -MICROSOFT: World's first global dictionary announced.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 October 1998-MICROSOFT: World's first global dictionary announced C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:011098 -- Leaders in computer and publishing industries to join forces to set a new world standard for reference works Microsoft Corp., St. Martin's Press Inc.,...
- Research articles 1998-10-02
- MICROSOFT: Microsoft & Harvard Afro-American scholar to bring Black history alive with Encarta Africana
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 July 1998-MICROSOFT: Microsoft and renowned Harvard Afro-American scholar to bring Black history alive with Encarta Africana C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:300798 * Technology supplied by Microsoft helps fulfill dream of creating electronic compendium of African history and culture Microsoft Corp. and a...
- Research articles 1998-07-31
- If you don't embrace new technology, someone else surely will
- Talk about missing a major turn in technology. The 1990s dawned with Chicago a colossus in the world of reference materials, a city boasting a half-dozen publishers but none more widely known than upscale giant Encyclopaedia Britannica and mainstream favorite World Book Encyclopedia. As they...
- Research articles 1998-06-01
- The world at your fingertips: CD-ROM atlases in 1998.
- Three new CD-ROM atlases offer users multimedia enhancements and sophisticated functions: Microsoft's Encarta Virtual Globe '98, Creative Wonders' 3D Atlas '98, and Rand McNally's New Millennium World Atlas Deluxe. All three provide statistical data and seamless global navigation. The Microsoft atlas includes cultural information, Creative Wonders' atlas offers hotlinks to...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Microsoft's Razorfish Deal Shows Strategic Shift
- Microsoft's sale of Razorfish, its digital marketing agency, to Publicis Groupe is yet another sign that Redmond is seeking to refocus its mission around its core properties, such as Windows 7 and Office 2010. Microsoft originally purchased Razorfish as part of a $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive in 2007, when...
- News items 2009-08-10
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- Information Access Company works with Microsoft to create Encarta Online Library; Leading developer of periodical reference products and electronic databases to bring vast information sources to Encarta users
- BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 30, 1996--Information Access Company IAC, one of the world's leading developers and integrators of periodical reference products and electronic databases, today announced a relationship with Microsoft Corporation to make available the Microsoft Encarta Online Library (http://www.encarta.cognito.com), an integrated online research tool which enables users to expand their research...
- Research articles 1996-09-30
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