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  • Best Android reference apps

    Best Android apps for learning and reference

    FEATURE For the smartest phone of all 1 February 2012 12:00 GMT

    Smartphones apps aren't just about games. There's some educating to do out there if you'd care to tear yourself away from Fruit Ninja for just two minutes and we at Pocket-lint have amassed the very best Android apps for learning and reference so that...

  • Geek culture dominates new Chambers Dictionary

    Geek culture dominates new Chambers Dictionary

    Tech words and web culture make their mark 25 August 2011 12:36 GMT

    The latest version of the Chambers Dictionary is dominated by "geek chic" with almost a quarter of the words added coming from internet culture.

    The new words "herald a wave of geek chic, a more strident green agenda, and the way in which...

  • Internet kills Printed Oxford English Dictionary

    Internet kills Printed Oxford English Dictionary

    Unlikely to be "printed again" 30 August 2010 9:49 GMT

    Can you pass me the dictionary is more likely to invoke your friend passing you a tablet or laptop in the future, rather than a weighty tome.

    Oxford University Press has said that its website is so successful that it's not sure "whether the...

  • Google rolls out dictionary functionality

    Google rolls out dictionary functionality

    For multiple languages 4 December 2009 9:37 GMT

    In a week where Google has celebrated St Andrews Day, revealed 2009's Zeitgeist, made paywall concessions, started a town modelling competition, confronted Mandelson, faded in its homepage, buddied up with Twitter and launched DNS servers, the company...

  • "Unfriend" named Word of the Year by OUP

    Hashtag a runner up as social networking makes a big impact on our vocab 18 November 2009 18:04 GMT

    As do other such companies, the New Oxford American Dictionary has revealed the new words it is considering for inclusion, and revealed its choice of "Word of the Year" for 2009.

    The 2009 Word of the Year has been named as "unfriend" with...

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