Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Pirates Cash In on Weak Chips - A phone-card fraud operation has cost Europe's largest telco some US$34 million - and proven a case study in the weakness of so-called 'security through obscurity.' By James Glave. [Wired News]   Planning for the Applet Threat - A new consortium says evil applets -- sophisticated software spies far more potent than viruses -- are threatening networked computers. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Point, Click, Supercompute - A new installation coming to the San Diego Supercomputer Center wants to bring accessible, high-powered data crunching to a bigger audience of researchers. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Policing the Java Police - Sun says an accounting firm will be hired to verify the fairness of the Java standards process that Sun leads. One Java watchdog says the move doesn't go far enough to satisfy developers. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Power to the People - Taylor urges his fellow, frustrated Web developers to get involved in the standards process. From Webmonkey.com. [Wired News]   Privacy Bug Rash Spreads to IE - A new Internet Explorer bug allows a Web site to suck up surfers' private files. One man tracking the recent spate of similar problems says this one is the worst yet. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Privacy as Computer Language - We'd like to track your path through our site. We'll use the data for own product promotion but that's it. OK with you? With P3P, your browser will do the talking. But can a universal privacy protocol really work? By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Prodding Car Thieves to Reform - A new car security system marketed to theft-plagued cities will send a 50,000-volt message to would-be car thieves. But cardiology specialists say the manufacturer may be asking for trouble itself. By Ilan Greenberg. [Wired News]   Pumping Plastic - Artificial muscles are on deck to start flexing, so you won't have to bother. [Wired News]   Putting Einstein to the Test - A group of Stanford scientists, with the help of NASA and Lockheed Martin, are out to test Einstein's theory of general relativity. The US$550 million project uses space-age gyroscopes, and an orbiting satellite. By Steven Brody. [Wired News]   Putting a Price on Free Source - The Public Software Institute hopes to use a network of 75 university students and a controversial pay-to-play free-software licensing model to encourage more corporations to buy into the open-source idea. [Wired News]   Q&A: The Wearable Mann - Steve Mann, co-founder of MIT's Wearable Computing Project, was putting computers on his head long before anyone had them on a desk. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Quark Enters Standards Fray - Quark, the desktop publishing power, has joined the W3C to have a hand in shaping future Web publishing standards. Adobe, its primary competitor, has a head start. By Chris Jones. [Wired News]   RSA: Crack DES in a Day - In 56 hours, the Electronic Frontier Foundation made mincemeat of the federally approved standard for data-scrambling. Now encryption vendor RSA challenges the world to crack DES in two days or less. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Reach Out and Fleece Someone - Yes, the Palm III handheld computer can unlock car doors. But new software will turn your PalmPilot into an unlimited calling card, too. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   RealNetworks Bug or MS Plug? - A spat between RealNetworks and Microsoft that arose in Senate hearings continued into Friday. Microsoft claims the conspiracy is not a code issue, but merely a bug. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   RealNetworks Unveils Its Next Generation - The streaming-media leader shows off RealSystem G2, a group of products built around the World Wide Web Consortium's forthcoming synchronized multimedia integration language standard. [Wired News]   Redmond's New Java Blend - In an upgrade of its Java development tool, Redmond has beefed it up as a Windows application language. Critics see it as an attack on Java's cross-platform promise - but is that Microsoft's problem? [Wired News]   Rent It and They Will Come? - If you're not convinced that your business is destined for the Nasdaq 100, maybe rentable apps are the way to go. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]   Report: Space Tech NASA Should Develop - The National Research Council says that NASA should start preparing technologies now for cost-effective space programs tomorrow. Six undeveloped tech areas, including nuclear power, are key, the NRC's report says. [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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