Not to be outdone by the worldliness of Sharp’s new e-Dictionary, Openmoko, the makers of the WikiReader, today announced downloadable updates for the palm-sized encyclopedia to support 14 additional languages including Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian, Greek, French, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish, Welsh, Russian and Hungarian.  In addition to translated versions of the WikiReader’s 3 [...]

As a kid, I can remember paging through the volumes of my school’s encyclopedia in amazement that so much information could be so compactly compiled.  Then I got my first CD-ROM drive, blazing fast with a 2X read speed, which came bundled with an edition of Compton’s encyclopedia.  The disk included huge numbers of pictures, sound clips, [...]