Internet

Look at this screenshot taken some minutes ago on this site. Do you notice something?

Tom Panelas, Encyclopedia Britannica's Director of Corporate Communications, answers some questions about the Britannica / Wikipedia comparisons.

It is a question of time before the Wikipedia self-destructs and implodes. It poses such low barriers to entry that it is already attracting masses of teenagers as "contributors" and "editors".

The Creative Archive project is a BBC led initiative which aims to make archive audio and video footage available to be freely downloaded, distributed, and ‘remixed’.

Just five years ago, when Jimbo Wales founded Wikipedia, the project's goal of 100,000 articles seemed ambitious. Yet today, the project, now one of the top 25 websites in the world according to Alexa, is nearing closer 1,000,000 articles in English, and 3.5 million articles across all languages. Wikipedia interviewes Jimbo Wales.

A raucous debate has been raging at a the DigitalPoint for website owners and developers over the inclusion of sites which are said to be involved in child pornography at one of the internet's oldest and largest directories. It now appears to ba having an effect, but the issue deserves broader public discussion and debate.

Staff members of the offices of U.S. Senators have been editing free online encyclopedia Wikipedia - that allows any of its users to edit its content - removing, in some cases, negative facts about Senators.

Microsoft Corp. has acquired voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) provider Teleo Inc., on August 30, for an undisclosed sum. Teleo was founded in 2003, in San Francisco, USA.

A Tuesday service cutoff deadline in the United States for tens of thousands of VoIP customers who failed to reply to a service limitation notification from their provider was extended by 30 days, to September 28.

Unlike newspapers that are cluttered with everything from recipes to obits the Internet sites and blogs hunker down and concentrate on the business at hand.

Google today released Google Talk in beta, an Instant Messaging (IM) and Voice over IP (VoIP) product using the Jabber protocol.

The Internet is likely to converge with "real life". It is likely to be dominated by brick and mortar entities which are likely to import their business methods and management. As its eccentric past (the dot.com boom and the dot.bomb bust) recedes - a sustainable and profitable future awaits it.

In a move that rocked the online world and left many Internet marketers shaking in their boots, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated a sweeping crackdown on what they termed "Internet Scammers" and "Deceptive Spammers."

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, and how VoIP works is actually quite revolutionary because it streamlines the process of sending analog audio signals by converting them to a much easier to send digital form for transmission.

As the Internet becomes a standard part of any suite of office equipment, analog telephone services, audio conferencing and their equipment will soon become obsolete.