Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Meet the Electronic Tongue - University of Texas researchers developed the e-tongue to tell sweet from sour. One day, the technology may replace human food testers. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Meet the Floppy Screen - A new technology would use flexible plastics instead of glass as the basis for computer screens. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Messenger Client Joins Mozilla - In the next few days, Netscape will release the last set of source code associated with its Communicator suite, giving Mozilla hackers a mail and news client to play with. [Wired News]   Mexican Schools Embrace Linux - The government hopes to save millions of dollars in license fees by wiring the nation's schools with the open-source system. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Microchips Take Radiation Heat - As microchip designers endlessly miniaturize their creations, they face a new threat in the form of radiation leaking off the solder that binds them. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Microsoft Discounts Threat - The Back Orifice program is not as threatening as billed, says Microsoft, but the hackers who created it stand by their claims and note that 14,000 copies already have been downloaded. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Microsoft Frowns on SMIL - Microsoft has decided not to support a significant new W3C standard for streaming video and sound files online. RealNetworks and other multimedia developers are taking the vendor-neutral route. By Lisa Rein. [Wired News]   Microsoft Pre-Packages HTML Editing Tools - Building an HTML editor? Microsoft has built editing components so you don't have to. [Wired News]   Microsoft Recruits Sea Slugs - Microsoft and the University of Washington have teamed up to study how sea slugs process information. The goal? To design smarter computer systems. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   Microsoft Releases NetShow 3.0 - The software supergiant unveils its contribution to streaming media mania, and anxious developers eat it up at Web Tech-Ed in Palm Springs, California. [Wired News]   Microsoft Rights Hotmail - The security threat to Hotmail users that emerged earlier this week has been patched, says Microsoft. The fix involves filtering out all scripting code in incoming mail messages. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Microsoft Searches for Feedback - Microsoft quietly took the wraps off its Net search engine today. But the site uses the same backstage technology as several other search engines. By Chris Jones. [Wired News]   Microsoft Spearheads Multimedia Standard - The Multimedia Task Force wants to make digital media production a more integrated process. Microsoft and the other member companies have developed a new file format to do just that. [Wired News]   Microsoft Tries Government Crypto - By supporting the US government's encryption protocols, the software company will be able to sell its Windows NT servers to federal agencies. Whether it adds more security to government networks is debatable. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Microsoft Wants to Get Along - Microsoft promises that it will make its core products -- Windows, Office, and BackOffice -- work better with rivals' offerings. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Microsoft's Next Ambition: The Net's Backend - As Microsoft acquires and partners with Web companies, it reportedly invites them to move from Unix to the company's Windows NT Web servers. Critics say that may not bode well for consumers. [Wired News]   Microsoft, Intel, Others Form DSL Group - The goal: speed deployment of ADSL. The companies with a plan: Microsoft, Intel, a slew of the local phone companies, and other major telco and PC industry players. [Wired News]   Mining Water From Moon Data - To conclude that water exists on the moon, NASA scientists used a device located on board the Lunar Prospector that distinguishes between different types of neutrons around the moons poles. [Wired News]   Mining the Moon for Habitation - A small band of researchers is looking into ways of using the resources of Mars and the moon to eventually create habitats for humanity. [Wired News]   Mosaic Boomerangs to the Set-top - Spyglass has licensed the guts of the Web's first graphical browser to cellphone giant Nokia for use in set-top boxes all over Europe. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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