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Street Cred: Roam Free - Nextel's new handheld has all the signs of a road warrior crowd pleaser - it doubles as a commando walkie-talkie to satisfy the inner man-child, and offers bean-counter-friendly pricing. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Sacked Out - Hilton's Sleep-Tight rooms provide gadgets that help you sleep like a baby, or provide plenty of distractions for the insomniac. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Secured Digits - I/O software's fingerprint reader creates a system for login security. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Star Hacking - Immersed in the scenery, Paul Saffo reviews his new telescope, the Tele Vue Pronto. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Sweet TeleSuite - Teleconferencing has always been characterized by jerky movements, broken sentences, and line noise. A set-up with a 100-inch display and full eye-contact cameras wants to eliminate the stereotype. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: The Interface Hackers - Recently, Greg Landweber and some friends released Kaleidoscope, a souped-up version of Aaron that offers an array of colorful interfaces such as Onyx and Ice. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: The Next NC? - Accessing the Web from your old IBM PC is no longer a dream. The Caldera Spyder is a Web browser designed for computers that run on DOS. [Wired News]
 
Street Cred: Wired(less) - Better than sliced bread, Metricom's Ricochet wireless modem provides secure Net access at up to 28.8 Kbps - as long as you're in the service area. [Wired News]
 
SuiteSpot: A Soft Spot in Networked Vision? - Who's buying server products like SuiteSpot? In the second installment of a five-part look at Netscape, technology reporter Miguel Helft examines the company's attempt to build the products at the center of the 'networked enterprise.' [Wired News]
 
Sun Buying Smartcard Start-Up - With the take-over of Integrity Arts, the company extends its Java interests to smartcards and databases. [Wired News]
 
Sun Leaps First Hurdle en Route to Java Standard - The ISO has approved Sun's bid to become the publicly available specification submitter for Java, and now the company looks to greener pastures for its prized language. [Wired News]
 
Sun Pressured to Loosen Its Grip on Java - Leading computing companies have sent an open letter to Sun, asking the company to give up its drive to be the ISO Java standards bearer. Sun says it will pass muster. [Wired News]
 
Sun Reportedly Has Lock on Java Stewardship - With its apparent victory for submitter status, Sun may be positioned for the next crucial step: Standardization of the language. [Wired News]
 
Sun Rides to the Rescue of Geriatric PCs - Millions of Net-hobbled 486 machines gather dust around the world. But not for long, says Sun. [Wired News]
 
Sun Sets To Building Supercomputers - Sun Microsystems enters SGI-Cray Research country with a new line of 32-gigaflop supercomputers. But is the race already over? [Wired News]
 
Sun Spawns New Scripting Division - A quietly popular scripting language is now going to get more individual attention. [Wired News]
 
Sun Takes Java by Horns with Activator - Sometimes to get anything done you have to do it yourself, Sun appears to be saying with today's release of the browser add-on that replaces Microsoft's virtual machine with Sun's runtime environment. [Wired News]
 
Sun Unfazed by US Java Vote - Despite the United States' delegation's rejection of Sun's bid to make Java an ISO standard, executives are optimistic. [Wired News]
 
Sun Unveils New Java GUI Tools - But the new class libraries may fuel the feud between Sun and Microsoft for control of the language. [Wired News]
 
Sun's Adventures in the Third Dimension - Long viewed as a computing workhorse, Sun Microsystems is now looking to grab some of SGI's special-effects glory - and profits as well. [Wired News]
 
 

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