Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Will the Lights Go Out on Y2K? - The first study to determine how Y2K might hit the nation's power grid reaches the "cautiously optimistic" conclusion that all will be well in the young millennium. Others aren't so sure. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   Win98: What's the Fuss? - Windows 98 is supposed to be a watershed event for the Internet, but beneath the browser-cum-operating system, users are finding little more than a service upgrade. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   Windows 98 to Give Better TV - Hoping for more TV-ready PCs in the home, Microsoft says Windows 98 will support Intel's Intercast technology for beaming data along with TV shows. [Wired News]   Windows CE Slowly Gaining Speed - Microsoft announces plans to beef up its specialized computer OS to meet the demands of different operating environments, from testing devices to point-of-sale terminals. But critics still say that in the area of set-top boxes, Microsoft's baby Windows needs a whole new core. [Wired News]   Windows Made with Spyglass - Even as it sells technology to compete with Windows CE, Spyglass plans to help manufacturers put Microsoft's OS to use in handheld PCs. [Wired News]   Windows NT Security Under Fire - The security Microsoft uses in establishing virtual private networks over the Net is unreasonably weak, charges one expert. The company contends the problems are already fixed or too conditional to worry about. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Winradio Gives Low-Fi Tech a New Face - Winradio was originally developed for military use, but it didn't take long to see that it was a radio hobbyist's dream. The PC-ready kit will monitor and record multiple channels, and claims to have a frequency range 60 times larger than that of a standard car radio. [Wired News]   Wintel's Unix-Stopping Plan - At the center of the Microsoft-Intel push for the workstation market are graphics, graphics, graphics, and a new standard for processing them faster. [Wired News]   Wireless ISPs Go Multipoint - High-speed Net connections have always been a costly proposition. Now, two companies are championing wireless transmission as a cheap and effective way of obtaining more bandwidth. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]   Wireless Net Thinks, Acts Locally - While Iridium and other satellite-based networks aim to blanket the globe with their services, Celsat is arguing the virtues of a regionalized approach. Whether the FCC sees its point is another matter. [Wired News]   Wireless Networks Find Order in Chaos - A group of university researchers is building a wireless network based on chaos theory that will be tested by the US Army. The hope is that chaos will lead to the development of cheaper network components with more bandwidth capacity. [Wired News]   Wireless Protocol Gathers Steam - Eleven more companies join a coalition that will establish standards for feeding news and information from Web servers to pockets and handbags the world over. R. Scott Raynovich reports from New York. [Wired News]   Wireless in the Antarctic - Stranded among the ice floes, an Australian research ship had a potentially disasterous situation on its hands. The lesson learned: In remote parts of the world, communications are a science of satellites. By Stewart Taggart. [Wired News]   XML Geeks Peek Inside Netscape 5.0 - On Friday, Netscape showed developers the extensible markup language tricks that will be built into Communicator 5.0 - the code of which is slated to hit hard drives everywhere starting Tuesday. [Wired News]   Yahoo Email Scam Resurfaces - For the third time, an unknown scammer has tried to bilk credit card information via Yahoo's free email service. The company has changed its policies on email usage to help deal with the situation. [Wired News]   Yahoo Mail Takes a Hit - The popular free email service blames technical problems for an outage affecting 20 percent of its users. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   You've Got Secure Mail! - VeriSign's rosy IPO may have added weight to the claims that this will be the year of the digital ID. But getting the larger Net population to plug and play with them is the bigger challenge. [Wired News]   Your Data as Online Commodity - A new protocol under development will provide Web-based businesses and content providers with a standardized way of exchanging users' personal information, preferences, and other types of data related to online business. By Lisa Rein. [Wired News]   Zooming In on Black Holes - Astronomers are using radio signals and an orbiting telescope to view black holes in quasars billions of light years away. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   eBay Drops Offline, Angers Users - The leading online auction house suffered hardware and network failures Monday night, disrupting trading and enraging hundreds of bidders and sellers. By Polly Sprenger. [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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