Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   'Analyzer' Nabbed in Israel - The hacker who allegedly broke into US military networks has been nabbed by Israeli police, along with two alleged accomplices. Members of his hacker entourage claim that the Israeli government tried to hire Analyzer recently. [Wired News]   'E911' Turns Cell Phones into Tracking Devices - The FCC's requirements for enhanced 911 services makes cell phones tools for locating users in distress. Privacy groups fear they'll be used for more than that. [Wired News]   'Private Doorbell' Rings Hollow - A coalition of high-tech companies finds a way around the government's strong crypto export rules. Does the new export license amount to anything new? By Chris Jones. [Wired News]   'Unscheduled Maintenance' Takes Down Amazon - The bookseller says an internal problem has shuttered its site for a "few hours." [Wired News]   3Com Sets Sights on Nokia, Europe - Given the success of its PalmPilot organizer, 3Com is looking to ramp up its consumer electronics development and marketing efforts. Also: BeOs debuts on the Intel platform. [Wired News]   A 'Hands-Off' Operation - A new robotic finger developed at the University of California at Berkeley mimics the movements of a human hand and gives doctors a new way to reduce patient trauma from surgery. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]   A Baby Step for Nanotech - A new device that manipulates atoms is an important advance for researchers who one day hope to build machines the size of molecules. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   A Chip for Every Occasion - As the flood of information appliances begins to hit the market, some manufacturers looking for an edge have turned to chip specialists for more flexible, efficient processors that can be quickly adapted for these devices. By Gene Koprowski. [Wired News]   A Clever New Way to Search? - IBM is hoping search engines will take a shine to its new technology that combines machine precision with good old human smarts. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]   A Clone Is a Clone Is a Clone - What do you get when you cross a mouse cell with a mouse egg cell? A new technique for cloning that produces several generations of clones. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   A Flexible Alternative to LCDs - Lucent's Bell Labs has developed a new transistor manufacturing process that could lead to plastic computer screens - more durable and more flexible than today's LCD standard. [Wired News]   A Flight Plan for Mars - Scientists hope to advance Mars exploration in 2003 with a reconnaissance mission over the red planet. Two NASA groups, the Ames facility and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, vie for a lucrative project grant. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   A Free Java OS for PCs - As the free-software movement gathers steam, developers behind the fledgling JOS Project believe their enthusiasm can produce a full-fledged Windows alternative. A long row to hoe? You betcha. [Wired News]   A Fully Automated Gassing Up - An automated fuel pump being tested in the United States takes about 90 seconds to do a robotic-arm fill-up. A national rollout is expected in 1999. [Wired News]   A New Lock on Network Security - Sandia National Lab has developed a combination lock that could add a microscopic, but formidable, layer of security to computer networks. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   A New Prescription for the Square-Eye Set? - While repetitive stress syndrome is normally associated with wrist and nerve problems, it may also well apply to the pain associated with PC-strained eyes. [Wired News]   A New Yardstick for Everest - Mount Everest: How tall is it and how fast is it growing? A group of climbers hopes to answer these questions with the help of advanced global positioning system equipment. [Wired News]   A Next-Generation Net, Right Now - The Internet we have now is too unreliable for remote-control surgery, telemedicine, and collaborative research. A new national backbone could change that. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   A Poirot for the 21st Century - NASA technology may find practical applications in earthbound criminal science. A pilot program will determine whether specific space-age technology can be useful helping criminal investigators collect and process evidence. [Wired News]   A Primitive Challenge to Programmers - The Computer Conservation Society has made an unusual challenge to programmers: Write a software program for Baby, the first stored-memory computer, built in 1948. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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