Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Virtual Mushroom Clouds - With a ban on real-world nuclear weapons testing, the US Department of Energy is ramping up its efforts in the virtual realm. State-of-the-art supercomputers are a key ingredient. By Gene Koprowski. [Wired News]   Virus Snarls NT Nets - A new virus that infects networks is being called the most sophisticated of its kind, taking advantage of networking operations to weave its web. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Virus Thrives on HTML - A new demonstration virus is the first to exploit the language of Web pages. Observers say it's a new frontier for malicious computer code. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Voiceprints Aim to Simplify Security - New voiceprint ID technology uses plain old telephone service to work its magic, lowering the barriers to entry for companies and consumers alike. [Wired News]   Wardialer Goes Corporate - Taking a page from the cracker's handbook, a security firm releases a commercial version of a program that seeks out phone numbers to penetrate computer networks. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Weather Data Lost in Space - The failure of the Galaxy IV satellite did more than interrupt paging -- it hit the distribution of critical Doppler weather data to airports, airlines, and the national weather forecasting center. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Weaving a Multilingual Web - Using some 6,000 independent translators from around the world, a Web software developer is offering a one-stop language-translation service for would-be multilingual sites. By Ilan Greenberg. [Wired News]   Web Ads Invade PC Apps - Tired of revolving ad banners at the top of every Web site you visit? Well, get used to them, because they're spreading. [Wired News]   Web Keyword System Patented - Netword gets the patent on technology for accessing Web sites via common words instead of URLs. It's not saying it intends to sue. But if it does, its primary competitor thinks the patent is too broad to hold up in court. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Web TV Has Advertisers Licking Chops - As the likes of MSNBC, CNN, and Warner Bros. juice up their Web TV content, advertisers are exploring the prospects for targeted, trackable ads. This week's @d:tech West conference was a showcase for some of the early entries. [Wired News]   Well-Done Spam Cooked Pac Bell's Email - Several large, coinciding spams, originating from AT&T WorldNet and CompuServe, were blamed for last month's unprecedented interruption in Pacific Bell Internet's mail service, the ISP says. Typical spam, untypical impact, observers say. [Wired News]   What Cookies Can Do for You - Leonard Vishnevsky takes a look at cookies from the Web designer's perspective. [Wired News]   When Pagers Fail - While the malfunction of the Galaxy IV satellite may have inconvenienced some businesses, it represents a more serious risk for those in the network security and monitoring business. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Whither Crawls Netscape's Javagator? - Netscape officials deny a report that work on Javagator, an all-Java version of the Navigator browser, has been suspended. [Wired News]   Who Needs Better Phone Service? - If you build it, they will come. Not so, says a group of companies that manufactures high-tech filters that could vastly improve cell phone services. By Steven Brody. [Wired News]   Who Will Rule the Set-Top Box? - A survey of the companies that are investing money and technology in the race for the lucrative set-top real estate. [Wired News]   Who's Watching Your Server? - As of today, at least one major corporate Web site is still sharing sensitive information with the world, thanks to a bug in a Microsoft Web server. Others were fixed only yesterday. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Whois Deadspammer.com? - An Internet marketing firm scuttles plans to sell a domain-name database after its site is attacked and death threats are made. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Will Arms Treaty Hurt Privacy? - A Canadian software entrepreneur says that a new international arms-control treaty threatens encryption -- and his business. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Will Javagator Be Reborn as Jazilla? - Spurred by what they see as Netscape foot-dragging, a group of Java nuts has started building a Java version of Navigator based on the source code that the company released this week. [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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