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Tornado Gives Universal Messaging a Whirl - Staying connected usually means having to deal with different communications systems. A Java applet promises to reduce this complexity. [Wired News]
 
Total Photonics: A Sight for Sore ISPs - Lucent is getting ready to show off new laser-beam network switching that speeds voice, video, and data traffic. The next futuristic fantasy you see may be real. [Wired News]
 
Traffic to Take the High Road - for a Price - Unfortunately, a bulk email will traverse the Net as fast as a live audio stream. But MCI and Cicso believe that people will pay to have their packets get there first. [Wired News]
 
Training Wheels - With the help of biorobotics, one company is finding ways to extend a wheelchairs utility, and thus its power. [Wired News]
 
Transistor Technology Takes a Quantum Leap - Researchers at the Sandia National Labs are using "quantum tunnelling" to dramatically increase the speed at which transistors operate and reduce the number needed for integrated circuits. [Wired News]
 
Treknology - Non-Boring Technology - Presidents, prime ministers, and corporate executives want to instill in the young an interest in technology and the future, to make genetic research more appealing than gangsta rap. I offer a proposal guaranteed to succeed: more Star Trek. [Wired News]
 
Tuner Aims to Netrify Fax, Copy Machines - A new software design for silicon chips is being used by consumer electronics manufacturers to lend text and graphical capabilities to fax machines, copy machines, phones, and the like. [Wired News]
 
Turning Bipolar in Face of New Markets - Deregulation is forcing utilities to re-approach their business and decide - offense or defense? [Wired News]
 
Two Modems Double Your Data Pleasure - With a little software, a second modem, and some sense of invention, you can roll your own high-capacity bandwidth lines. [Wired News]
 
UK Coder Builds New Anti-Spam Weapon - Steve Harris arms flamers with an automatic weapon: Spam Hater. [Wired News]
 
US AIDS Progress Is Bad News for Tijuana - A new generation of powerful anti-HIV "cocktails" is saving lives in San Diego. Across the border in Tijuana, more people will die as a result. [Wired News]
 
US Computer Security Called a Critical Mess - Saying America's critical infrastructure "stinks," security guru Peter Neumann fires off a warning over the Clinton administration's "obvious" recommendations for staving off hacks. [Wired News]
 
US Robotics Unveils Cost-Cutting Cable Modem - The modem maker has announced a cable modem priced to compete with the telephone boxes - and incentives for cable TV operators to get hustling. [Wired News]
 
US Votes 'No' on Sun's Java Plan - But company officials, noting other support, remain optimistic of passage. [Wired News]
 
US, Japan Test Trans-Pacific's Golden Spike - A trans-oceanic network of satellites and fiber-optic cable may be the way to bring the superhighway to remote areas. [Wired News]
 
USPS Stamps Company for Electronic Postage - No more fishing for coins to buy stamps. Now users can print postage along with the rest of their docs. [Wired News]
 
Uncle Sam Wages Low-Tech War on High-Tech Fraud - If it takes a thief to catch a thief, does it take high-tech gizmos to catch high-tech frauds? Such was the discussion at a futurist conference. [Wired News]
 
Usenet Attacker Still at Large - The Rice University student fingered in the ongoing Net-wide attack on Usenet was just an unwitting copycat, say university officials. [Wired News]
 
Usenet News Servers Take a Beating - While a student at Rice University has been nabbed as the suspected culprit in the attack that has affected 130 sites, Usenet servers are still falling. [Wired News]
 
Usenet Servers under Assault - An ongoing attack affecting potentially thousands of news servers just might be the largest systemic assault since the Internet worm of 1988. [Wired News]
 
 

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