nciku Team Blog

nciku (http://www.nciku.com/ & http://www.nciku.cn/) will be temporarily unavailable during the day after tomorrow, Wednesday March 27th,  Beijing time (GMT+8).  The site and all of our regular features and services will not be accessible at that day.  Because we will maintain the website servers during that day, and our services will be back after the maintenance.

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Dear nciku users,
 We discontinued one of our dictionary websites - the Taiwan dictionary webite (http://www.nciku.com.tw/). 
 Because canceling it will reduce our server load and maintenance costs and ensure that we can continue to offer our core dictionary site and mobile apps.
Sorry to the users who were using the tw website.  We appreciate all the support that we have […]

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Are you an iPhone / iPad developer looking to integrate an offline Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionary in your application?
We are happy to introduce our nciku iOS SDK. It has over 163,000 entries, including 76,000 Chinese and 77,000 English words and phrases, with over 95,000 matched examples. Over 35,000 of our Chinese definitions for English words also […]

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Everyone at nciku is excited to announce the revival of the site’s Games section, with our new Texas Hold’em Poker game. You can now gamble with virtual money against opponents from around the world!

The game connects to Fullpot Poker, so there will always be opponents online to play against. It also has the following incredible […]

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Dear users,
As you might have noticed, our servers were down for several hours today. This was due to a DNS problem we have now fixed.
We are sorry for the inconvenience we might have caused and thank you for your patience.
the nciku team

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Dear nciku users,
Further to our previous announcement about the nciku MSN robot, we are sorry to announce that nciku will also discontinue the following services:

Services

Dates

nciku Q&A Board (http://nboard.nciku.com, http://nboard.nciku.cn and http://nboard.nciku.com.tw)

7/30/2012

nciku Taiwan Dictionary* (http://www.nciku.com.tw, nciku Space and http://www.nciku.com.tw/wiki)

9/29/2012

nciku BBS (http://bbs.nciku.cn)

TBD

nciku Hi! Community (http://hi.nciku.com and http://hi.nciku.cn)

TBD

nciku “Jishiyi” IME tool (http://tool.nciku.cn/jishiyi)

TBD

nciku Japanese Dictionary (http://japanese.nciku.com and http://english.nciku.jp)

TBD

Although […]

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Dear users,
We will discontinue one of our older services, the MSN robot, to reduce server load and maintenance costs. This will take effect on August 1st 2012. We appreciate the support you continue to give us.
Thank you for your understanding,
- the nciku team

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We have just released another update of the nciku Android Dictionary app. Here are the new features we’ve added:

Tablet Mode: the nciku experience on Android tablets has been substantially improved, with a new split-screen view.

We’ve also made the app more resolution-independent, so nciku should look good on any screen size.

Theme Words & Conversations: we’ve added […]

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Dear Users,
We are asking for your support with a donation to nciku. At our core, we are a small company that is driven and focused on developing the most innovative tools and learning aids to help people just like you learn another language. As you are aware, nciku is a free service that has […]

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[Update: The maintenance is going well, and most functions of the site - including the dictionary, mobile dictionary and handwriting features - are already back online. If you still see the maintenance notice, force-refresh the site by holding down control and pressing F5. Some areas of the site, including the Q&A, are still not available.]
Due […]

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