Wikipedia App for Livescribe Released

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Who would've ever thought that we'd be able to fit a computer into something the size of a pen? Well the folks at Livescribe did it, and they weren't content with leaving it as a regular note-taker pen …

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Information Can Be Accessed With Livescribe Smart Pens[/b]
Mobile Magazine
Smartpen manufacturer Livescribe last week announced the release of the new Wikipedia app for their Echo and Pulse pens. Once downloaded to the pen, the app lets you search through offline abstracts of the ...



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />New Livescribe app adds [b]Wikipedia to your pen[/b]
Gadling
Last year, we reviewed the Livescribe Echo Smartpen, and showed off some of its brilliant features. Since the pen can be expanded with apps, it has the ability to become even better over time. ...



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Livescribe makes its pens even smarter: [b]Wikipedia app comes to the Echo ...[/b]
HEXUS
Available in the Livescribe Application Store, the Wikipedia app is available in English and German versions. The German app contains more than 100000 articles, with the UK bringing access to more than 250000 articles. ...



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So what precautions have they taken to ensure that kiddie porn isn't on the device, and that they aren't distributing libels?

Since it's an "app", that probably constitutes an "interactive computer service" according to the U.S. Section 230 code of the CDA, so they wouldn't need to take any precautions, because they're not responsible.

In other words, our Congress in 1997 insured that this is your problem, not theirs.