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Electronic Eyes Get Smaller - New technology from Lucent will allow tiny, inexpensive video cameras to be built for use in videoconferencing and, more ominously, surveillance. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
Email Everywhere - Web 101 tries out one of the world's great communication tools: Web-based email. [Wired News]
 
Email Hole Exposes Computers - A newly discovered opening in Microsoft and Netscape email programs clears a route for a Trojan horse invasion. The potential consequences: stolen passwords, email control, data loss, and more. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
Email Links Mask Threat - The vulnerability revealed Friday uses Eudora's ability to work with "scripts" to let innocent links in messages find and run potentially destructive software. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
Email from Anywhere - A new messaging device from Magellan can send email from anywhere in the world. And if you're not sure where in the world you are, it can tell you that, too. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]
 
Email, Email Everywhere - A number of new services are sprouting up to give users more widespread access to email accounts. Fujitsu is the latest provider. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
 
Encrypting Your Every Move - Cylink is tying SynData's one-click Windows encryption tool to its network security software. Pitching itself against RSA Data Security and Network Associates, the company hopes the software makes user encryption as routine as a file-save. [Wired News]
 
Ericsson Cries Foul - Ericsson says its next-generation wireless technology of choice is getting unfair treatment by Lucent, but one observer says it's all just part of the ITU process of finding a standard. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
Et tu, Apple? - With Apple at its side, Redmond says it will help Java developers tap the native capabilities of the Mac OS - just like it's doing for Windows. [Wired News]
 
Eword: Junkosphere - The Final Frontier has become the final resting place of intergalactic junk. If a solution isn't found soon, NASA astronauts will be playing a new game: debris dodging. [Wired News]
 
Excite Moves to Patch Search Software - The search engine company made moves to address the security hole in its Excite for Web Servers product. [Wired News]
 
Excite Search Bug Threatens Web Sites - A major security hole will potentially allow a cracker to run Unix commands on any of the hundreds of sites that run Excite for Web Servers. The results could be nothing short of disastrous - and the bug has been public for nearly a month. [Wired News]
 
Explorer Icon: 'I'll Be Back' - The icon that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered off the Windows 95 desktop will be reappearing in Windows 98. Why? Because it's Windows 98, Microsoft says, and the judge was talking about Windows 95. [Wired News]
 
Explorer in Step with Netscape - The final release of Microsoft's latest browser promises support for a controversial keyword function and a wider swath of Web standards. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
Express Lane for E-Shoppers - New eWallet software will fill out any Web site's purchasing form, and that could grease the skids for e-commerce. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
Extractor Pro Will Make Spammers Pay - The new release of one of the Net's biggest tools for sending bulk unsolicited email will limit - and force spammers to pay ISPs for - their ads. [Wired News]
 
Eye in the Sky - A class at American University in Washington, DC, shows how newly available satellite data puts reporters in forbidden places and tracks human-rights abuses. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]
 
Eyeing Bright Light - Bright Light's antispam vision has basic appeal to activists and ISPs. But it still doesn't kill spam at its root, and its success will have to be tested. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
FAA Grapples with Year 2000 Snafu - While the FAA's 23 million lines of code are being made Y2K compliant, the problem is also evident in the microcode that is built into some of its hardware. [Wired News]
 
FBI Eyes Easier In for Wireless - Privacy advocates say the FBI is out to reverse the checks and balances of a law that gives officials access to communications networks. But the government maintains it only wants to have its say in case the law is amended. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
 
 

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