Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Long Distance 2¢ a Minute - Is voice over IP just another hype that will never hit mainstream markets? The Swedish developers of Dynamic Transfer Mode say they've got the technology to make it happen. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]   Lost in Space - NASA researchers investigating asteroids that could be on a collision path with Earth lost communication with their unmanned spacecraft Sunday. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Lucent Pumps Up Fiber Capacity - With the demand for high-speed data throughput expanding rapidly, the company unveils a major evolutionary step in the development of fiber-optic cable. The bottom line: A single fiber strand's capacity could be quintupled. [Wired News]   Lucent Stretches Fiber Pipes - A new fiber-optics technology from Lucent will quadruple the bandwidth of undersea lines and enable 10 gigabit-per-second transmissions. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Lucent Takes Beaten Path - Lucent's new chip production technology uses a tried-and-true production process, which could allow cell phones to run without recharging for a month. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Lucent: Wireless is a BLAST - The telco technology company unveils BLAST, a technology said to increase wireless transmission capacity tenfold. That would be a boon to businesses -- and to those living far from a phone jack. [Wired News]   Lukewarm Reception for Intel's Celeron - Intel showed off its new Celeron processors on Wednesday, amid speculation that the chips lack the performance to compete in an increasingly competitive marketplace. [Wired News]   Lycos Trails the Search Scene ... Or Does It? - A new ranking of search engines says that Lycos indexes fewer pages than its five biggest competitors. But does freshness count? [Wired News]   MAE West Suffers Outage, Bounces Back - During an equipment upgrade at San Jose-based MAE-West, the Internet switching facility ground to a near halt, causing service interruptions throughout the country. [Wired News]   MCI WorldCom Offers DSL - The telco wants to squash digital subscriber line's bad rap as the high-bandwidth service that never delivered. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]   MS Office Leaks Sensitive Data - Microsoft has confirmed a bug in certain versions of Microsoft Office that can leave traces of a user's personal data -- including passwords -- in files sent to other users. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MS Patents Anonymous Ecash - Security experts are disparaging Microsoft's new patent on untraceable electronic cash, saying that digital currency has a long way to go. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MS Shores Up Email Levee - Microsoft has updated its patch for a recent security problem in the Outlook 98 software. The company has also raised flags over a bogus email attachment. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MS, Sun Weave Tangled Path - In describing the network of the future, both Microsoft and Sun see distributed, self-monitoring systems. How to achieve this goal is where the companies diverge. By Lisa Rein. [Wired News]   MS: Open Source is Direct Threat - An internal Microsoft memo fingers open-source software, including Mozilla and Linux, as a serious danger to its core software lines. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MSN Emerges from Black Hole - For three and a half days this week, subscribers to Microsoft's online service were unable to send any email. The reason? The service had been placed into an anti-spam black hole from which it has only just emerged. By Debbie Scoblionkov and James Glave. [Wired News]   Macromedia Cracks Open Flash - Seeking to make it the Web standard, Macromedia -- a step behind Adobe and its PGML spec -- laid open its Flash technology as a spec for vector-based graphics on the Web. [Wired News]   Majoring in Martians - The search for extraterrestrial life got a boost this week when the University of Washington announced a new graduate program in astrobiology. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Making Net Names Safer - The Net's system for translating domain names into Internet addresses is easy to spoof, but a US$1.4 million security upgrade aims to change that. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Making Sense of Searching - InQuizit's new technology of natural language recognition may improve our data-hunting tools and foster more sensible communication with our computers. By Claudia Graziano. [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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