Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Tracking Flight Info Online - The Trip.com has developed an email-notification service that sends real-time air-travel data to passengers' friends and relatives. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]   Tunes from Outer Space - Leading car-stereo manufacturers get behind a new radio channel that will add a button alongside AM and FM on dashboards everywhere. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]   UPS Links Supply Chain - FedEx, DHL, snailmail -- so many choices. Now, UPS wants to let you pick and choose with every package you ship. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   US Announces Crypto Candidates - The US government's search for a new encryption standard to secure classified documents into the 21st century has taken a step forward. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   US Domain Name Plan Assailed Again - The Internet Council of Registrars says the US government's plan for revising the Domain Name System will only preserve the existing monopoly of Network Solutions, current stewards of the InterNIC. [Wired News]   US Takes Immigration in Hand - With international airport arrivals growing annually by 7 to 10 percent, the INS uses a biometric system to speed the immigration process. By Theta Pavis. [Wired News]   Understanding Clients and Servers - Web 101 puts client-server communications on the Internet through the de-babelizer. [Wired News]   Unseating the Mouse - The days of the point-and-click mouse may be numbered. A new technology called Varapoint is making the first serious bid at a next-gen pointer. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Untangling Email Threads - Hoping to deal a blow to email's ubiquitous greater-than symbol, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Lotus want to make HTML-encoded message threads easier to sort out. [Wired News]   Up-to-the-Minute Traffic Reports - An overall view of speed, volume, and traffic congestion on the Net can help keep networks humming. One group is ready to provide the real-time quality reports that providers and consumers crave. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Updata: Pushover? - Last year, Wired magazine told you to "kiss your browser goodbye," heralding the era of push media. But push has fallen short of the scenarios spun a year ago. Here's the rest of the story. [Wired News]   Use Your Lungs to Log On - Voice verification technology can confirm an individual's identity over the Web. Kansas parolees will use the technology to check in with officers, while for consumers, applications for home banking and calling cards are in the works. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]   Usenet II Urges Netizens to Come On In - Speaking to Net users interested in "disruption-free discussions," the team behind the upstart Usenet II have issued an open invitation to join their alternative discussion hierarchy. [Wired News]   Usenet II: Freedom or Tyranny? - A team of Usenetters wanted Usenet to change. When it didn't, they decided to start Usenet II, which takes aim at spam, cross-posted flames, and other Usenet snags. Now, the six-member steering committee and its rules for "sound" posting are under fire. [Wired News]   Usenet Spam Forecast: "Horrific" - As of Friday, the altruists who quietly cancel and erase the vast majority of spam traversing Usenet will begin a moratorium on their activities. The result is expected to be catastrophic. [Wired News]   Usenet Your Way - Realize Communications wants to dish out Internet discussion with more talk and less noise. And it will rely on members to do the filtering in exchange for frequent flier miles. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Ushering IE to Netcenter - Netscape posts a small utility with a big effect: It drives users of Microsoft's browser to Netscape's portal site. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Vaporware 1998: Windows NT Wins - The votes are in, and the year's most egregious vaporware is an all-too-familiar, and much delayed, operating system. Nothing else came close. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Video Editing in the House - A new DVD chip that will work its way into PC video cards puts video recording and editing features on the desktop, and cheaply. By Ilan Greenberg. [Wired News]   Virtual Humans Stepping Out - At a virtual human powwow this week, it's the avatars doing the talking, but real-world designers have more of a say in what they talk about. By Susan Kuchinskas. [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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