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Nomad Robot Toils in Sojourner's Shadow - Though eclipsed by its Red Planet-roving cousin, Nomad has achieved milestones that could lead to better bots. [Wired News]
 
OS to Be, but BeBox Not to Be - With little potential for broad-based success, Be founder Jean-Louis Gass e bails out of the hardware biz. [Wired News]
 
OS, Schmo-S - Give Us Wireless Apps - As Microsoft assumes that its operating system is what every device wants, vendors like Geoworks are giving wireless communicators an OS that is as unimportant as possible. [Wired News]
 
Object-Oriented Publishing Meets the Web - Spending countless hours managing your site? Webmonkey looks at smart publishing systems. [Wired News]
 
Old Hands Give Internet2 a Helping Hand - Despite the general hands-off, no-government approach engendered in Net fever, the next-generation Internet will again depend on the government and universities that helped develop it years ago. [Wired News]
 
One Paint Chip Could Ruin Your Whole Space Trip - Orbiting junk and meteoroids pose a serious space shuttle threat. A new report offers NASA some ideas on how to lessen the risk. [Wired News]
 
One Small Step for Priorities ... - A National Research Council report suggests ways for NASA to continue to proceed with space exploration in an era of reduced R&D funding. [Wired News]
 
Opening Communication Between PCs and Phones - As caller ID technology enters the telco mainstream, inexpensive PC applications are starting to take advantage of call-tracking to create tighter links between PCs and telephones. [Wired News]
 
Orbital Launches into Competition - The medium-Earth-orbit satellite system plans to offer services like Internet access and email - just like Teledesic. [Wired News]
 
Oscilloscopes for Everyone! - Complex and expensive scientific instruments are making the leap from the lab bench to the PC browser window. [Wired News]
 
Out of Band Bug Kicks Users Off Networks - A denial of service attack aimed at Microsoft's OS prompts the software king to pull back on the release of NT Service Pack 3. [Wired News]
 
Out of Power, Not Luck: Chip Ensures Memory - Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and France Telecom have developed a prototype memory chip that uses protons to retain its data even when the power is turned off. [Wired News]
 
Outta Beta Omnibus: Sci Eye, Bungie Jump, Play-It-Buro - Vincent di Fate's Infinite Worlds showcases sci-fi art; a new level of combat gaming is achieved by Myth; and Tom Clancy's company Red Storm Entertainment releases Politika, a game of power-brokering. [Wired News]
 
Outta Beta: Community Building Blocks - Identifying a woefully underserved market, entrepreneurial-minded Web start-ups are selling their proprietary authoring and production tools. [Wired News]
 
Outta Beta: Moonraker Meets Main Street - CyberSuit digitizes human movements of every kind: Stick a person in the suit, get them jumping around, and all the motion from their hands down to their feet is captured. [Wired News]
 
Outta Beta: Must-See Digital TV - ACTV, a New York based one-to-one television programming company, is aiming at an easy target for interactive TV: the armchair quarterback. [Wired News]
 
Outta Beta: True Pull - General Magic rolls out Serengeti, an electronic assistant that channels everything from appointment schedules to Internet data through the common telephone. And with a Voice User Interface, it avoids the annoying touch-tone navigation approach. [Wired News]
 
PC Games Get a Reality Check - Interactive, high-quality videos in PC games will give players a vivid, 360-degree experience. [Wired News]
 
PDAs Have Ears to the Ground at Comdex - PalmPilots have won over the market with their size and simplicity. But with the personal digital assistant game moving to new frontiers, like speech recognition, competitors are lining up fast. [Wired News]
 
PGP Enters New Phase: Corporate Networks - A fixture in the freeware underground, PGP is now catering to the Fortune 500 with a new software package. [Wired News]
 
 

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