in an essay dated 2002. The multimedia encyclopedia will
gather texts, photos, maps, sound and videos, with a webpage for each
species. It will provide a single portal for millions of documents
scattered online and offline. The first pages were available in
mid-2008. The encyclopedia should be completed with all known species
in 2017. The English version will be translated in several languages by
partner organizations.

June 2007 > IATE, or European terminology in 24 languages

IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) was launched in March 2007 as
an eagerly awaited free service on the web, with 1.4 million entries in
24 languages, after being launched in summer 2004 for the European
institutions. The new terminological database is available in 24
languages, instead of the 12 languages of the former database
Eurodicautom. The European Union went from 15 country members to 25
country members in May 2004, and 27 country members in January 2007.
IATE is maintained by the Translation Center of the institutions of the
European Union in Luxembourg. In 2009, IATE included 8,4 million words,
with 540,000 abbreviations and 130.000 expressions.

June 2007 > The iPhone from Apple

Launched in January 2007 by Apple, the iPhone is a smartphone including
an iPod (the iPod was launched in October 2001), a camera, and a web
browser, with the following specifications: a large tactile screen (3,5
inches), synchronization with the iTunes platform to download music and
videos, a camera of 2 megapixels, the Safari browser, the Mac OS X
operating system, access to GSM (Global System for Mobile
Telecommunications) and EDGE (Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution), WiFi
and Bluetooth. The iPhone was launched in June 2007 in the U.S. for
US$499 for the 4 G version and $599 for the 8 G version. It was
launched in Europe in late 2007 and in Asia in 2008. Other models
follow. The iPhone 4 was launched in June 2010.

August 2007 > Quote from Denis Zwirn

President of Numilog, the main French-language digital bookstore, Denis
Zwirn wrote in August 2007: "The digital book is not any more a topic
for symposiums, conceptual definitions or divination by some "experts".
It is a commercial product and a tool for reading. There is no need to
wait for some new hypermodern and hypertextual tool carefully
orchestrating its specificity from print. What we need is to offer
easily readable texts on all ebook reading devices used by customers,
that could soon