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Byline: Kim Thomas
Wikipedia jumps offline and onto mobile devices
Kim Thomas
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia containing 3.8 million articles at the last count, is to be made available on mobile devices such as PDAs.
Webaroo, a provider of offline web content, has added Wikipedia to its collection of nearly 300 downloadable web packs. The content of the packs is drawn from a variety of websites -- sources currently available include sport, newspapers and entertainment.
Instead of using their PDA or smartphone to connect to the internet, users download a web pack from Webaroo for free, and read at their leisure.
Content is meta-tagged so users can also search it. The next time the device connects to the net, the content is updated automatically.
Source: HighBeam Research, wikipedia jumps offline and onto mobile devices.(Brief article)