Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Debugging the Bug Detector - A bug in Symantec's latest version of its Norton Utilities antivirus suite freezes Windows desktops and denies access to floppy drives. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Defeating Biological Warfare - What can be done if a terrorist opens a vial of deadly disease at the local mall? If a new technology proves successful, perhaps a lot. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Dial-A-Strength Crypto on a Chip - Hewlett-Packard and Wave Systems say they have the answer to the deadlock on crypto exports: a hardware-based system that will obey the laws of the land. By Chris Jones. [Wired News]   Dialup Snafus: The Good News - Mom and pop Internet service providers needn't worry yet about the big telcos, participants at an ISP conference have learned. Thankfully, the Net is still a hassle. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Digital Music Goes Portable - A new Walkman-like device will download, store, and play MP3 files available on the Internet. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]   Do Rebuilt Cells Portend a Fountain of Youth? - Can humankind extend the body's life, almost indefinitely, using a new cell replication technique? Such are the questions that a group of scientists are asking after a recent experiment. [Wired News]   Do-It-Youself Supercomputers - Hobbyists hacking away in basements have long created innovative computers. Now researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratories have leaped to another level, building a mondo supercomputer with a mini pricetag. By Ilan Greenberg. [Wired News]   Docs Using Net as Disease Detector - A project involving Canada's health ministry and the World Health Organization aims to scan online resources as a way of heading off real-world epidemics. [Wired News]   Documents Get It Together - A new technical standard brings document sharing and editing to the Web. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Does Firefly Deal Swat Netscape E-Commerce? - Microsoft's acquisition of Firefly could spell trouble for Netscape's e-commerce strategy, which hinges on a privacy plug-in that Firefly was building for it. [Wired News]   Does MS Own Windows 2000? - A Virginia entrepreneur owns the Windows 2000 trademark -- the same name Microsoft wants to use for its next-generation operating system. Is trouble brewing? By James Glave. [Wired News]   Does Yahoo Still Yahoo? - One of the Web's flagship sites is increasingly blasted for failing to list submissions. It's not its job to get every site in, Yahoos say - but some are calling for the Web's de facto directory to own up to a quiet shift in its goals. [Wired News]   Does the Internet Backbone Index Have a Spine? - CompuServe owns the fastest backbone in the US, according the Third Keynote/Boardwatch Index of Backbone Providers. Critics say that's not surprising, given what they allege is the survey's flawed methodology. [Wired News]   Dramatic Internet Growth Continues - Things are still booming out there, according to the latest version of Mark Lottor's annual tally of hosts connected to the Net. [Wired News]   Dressing Smart: Wearable PCs - With strange glasses, head-mounted monitors, and strap-on devices of all kinds, researchers gather in Pittsburgh to advance the wearable computer. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Drug Needle in the Haystack - The Haystack, an enormous automated lab, works without pause to combine substances to see if any interesting - and lucrative - drugs emerge. [Wired News]   Drug-Testing Dummies - A patient simulator stands in to teach doctors how new drugs affect real patients. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   EBay Bites the Dust -- Again - A failed software upgrade brings down the online auction house for the second time in a month. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Earth Gets a Wink from Spacecraft - As the spacecraft NEAR heads toward a rendezvous with the biggest near-Earth asteroid, it will take a moment to be noticed. [Wired News]   Eclipse Opens Window to Solar Eruptions - An airborne observatory put a national team of scientists in a position to measure solar radiation during Thursday's eclipse. The mission may help explain magnetic disturbances on Earth that affect cellular communications. [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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