Tag: ENCARTA

A man convicted of manslaughter will get another chance to plead his case before a jury of his peers, now that a Florida Court of Appeals has overturned his conviction because of an iPhone. In 2006, 62-year-old Jose Tapanes was charged with fatally shooting his 19-year-old neighbor Christopher Cote after Cote had walked his dog on Tapanes's lawn. During the ensuing manslaughter trial, Tapanes's ...

Although inanimate and unaware, Web sites and Net memes must follow the order of natural selection just like carbon-based organisms. Since Darwin's law can be applied to all things, CNET is mourning 15 sites that were forced into extinction during 2009. Some of the Web creations that weren't properly adapted to survive 2009 include the once formidable and seemingly invincible Geocities, and ...

The times they are a-changing, and so, too, are the encyclopedias. It wasn't that long ago that an encyclopedia set cost thousands of dollars and was delivered by a truck -- a big truck. Then, when the multimedia computer found its way into the home, the encyclopedia morphed into (relatively) cheap discs full of information, often given away for free with a new computer. Microsoft's Encarta was ...