Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Texas Utilities to Buy Into Telecom - In the face of deregulation, one thing seems clear: When the going gets competitive, the big utilities get bigger. [Wired News]   That Really Long-Distance Feeling is Calling - Bulky satellite phones were out of reach to everyone but the military and CNN. Now the price and size are coming down to earth. [Wired News]   The ADSL Era Is Dawning - Sort Of - Expectations have been high for the high-speed lines in homes and businesses. Now, ADSL is slouching toward fulfilling them. [Wired News]   The Architect of Man's Demise - Hugo de Garis is developing technology that will evolve an electronic brain. If it works, he may have written humanity's epitaph. He explains how, in an email interview with Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   The Bid to Build a Better Wafer - Chipmaking is a quest for perfection, and two companies are testing a new process to edge closer to this goal. [Wired News]   The Boy Who Cried 'Net Access!' - Though Nortel's plan for Net access through the power lines sounds sexy, the system has serious obstacles to overcome, proving once again that there ain't no free lunch on the Internet. [Wired News]   The Future is in Beta - Wait around for things to shake out, and you'll be hopelessly behind everyone else before the week is out. "Public beta" software and "under construction" sites have been the norm rather than the cutting edge since the day the first HTML page was set up. [Wired News]   The Future of Silicon May Be Carbon - Researchers at two US universities have used strands of DNA to mimic microprocessors. [Wired News]   The Information Highway Is Coming - Really - A Silicon Valley firm wants to plug you into your city's highways and byways to help tame traffic. [Wired News]   The Joy of CSS: Deliver Us from Tables - Cascading stylesheets may rescue HTML from its bastardizers. [Wired News]   The Key to Home Banking is the Human Touch - A new terminal that marries encryption and smartcards with biometric technologies may be the answer for home-banking networks. [Wired News]   The Navbar Applet Grows Up - Java was a born Web star. But only now are webmasters starting to figure out how to use it. [Wired News]   The Safety of SET - With the joint Visa/Mastercard SET standard due in two weeks, how will secure credit card transactions over the Internet work? [Wired News]   The Silicon Mule - Dueling Java classes from Netscape and Microsoft vie for supremacy. [Wired News]   The Tech Press Falls Down - Tech journalists are more interested in crises like the Explorer bug than the fundamental problems behind them. [Wired News]   The Truth Will Be Out There - It's 2001. Do you know where your privacy went? [Wired News]   The Ultimate Caller ID - British astronomer Peter Duffett-Smith has invented a technology that can pinpoint a digital cellular phone's location within a few hundred feet. [Wired News]   The Un-Selling of Digital TV - Digital television may save the TV-set industry, or destroy it. It's a dangerous game that has electronics manufacturers donning kid gloves. [Wired News]   The Whole Web in Your Hands - PDAs and cellular phones face off in the nascent handheld Web-device market. [Wired News]   There's No Need to Speak Slowly and Clearly - Dragon Systems, a pioneer in the field of computer speech recognition technology, claims to have found its Holy Grail - software that can understand natural speech without stilted pauses. [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 31 32 33 34 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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