Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Lockheed: Ikonos Fell into Sea - The Ikonos I imaging satellite and its booster rocket vanished shortly after launch earlier this week. Investigators believe a faulty nose cone may have caused the mission to fail. [Wired News]   Locking Up Net Video - Encryption software protects RealNetworks streams on the fly. Also: A Web service converts old video and audio files into ready-to-go media streams. It's free, for now. [Wired News]   Long Live the Newton - Forget the Palm Pilot, the Newton is still tops with people at Macworld. Also: Everybody wants in on the iMac success, and partying in 1999 ain't what it used to be. Leander Kahney reports from New York. [Wired News]   Look Who's Talking - A new study shows babies can talk at six months -- much earlier than researchers previously believed. [Wired News]   Look, Ma! No Computer! - SBC Communications is about to roll out the latest gadget: a US$180 machine that does email, email, and nothing but email. [Wired News]   Lucent Enters Net-Music Fray - Lucent and e.Digital have teamed up on a portable player for reading secured music files delivered over the Net. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   MIT Grads Aim To Cut Congestion - Akamai will create a "smart" distributed network of servers to streamline traffic to the Web's five-star sites. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MIT: E-Commerce Just Beginning - Pattie Maes, MIT's leading expert on software agent technologies, says e-commerce will flourish only when humans get out of the way. Jill Priluck reports from Cambridge. [Wired News]   MP3 Portable Hits $100 Mark - As the demand for MP3 continues, a number of manufacturers are getting into the game with new -- and cheaper -- players. [Wired News]   MP3 on Your Stereo. Groovy. - GoodNoise and Adaptec will develop a technology that lets regular stereos play MP3 files downloaded off the Net. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   MP3: Monster in a Box - A California company hopes its MP3-ready chipset for set-tops will mean greater momentum for the digital music distribution standard. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MP3s Rock the House - MP3 files can be sent from PCs to stereos using a new wireless transmitter. Annoy the whole family with your latest deafening download. By Andy Patrizio. [Wired News]   MRIs in Living Color - A medical researcher develops a way to display magnetic resonance images in color, making it easier for clinicians to read the subtle variations that spell disease. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   MS Admits to Privacy Blunder - Microsoft confirms that it has been sending private user-ID information to its Web site. The company promises to change its ways. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MS Ballyhoos Digital Audio - Microsoft is not embracing digital audio quietly. With strategic alliances, investments, and new technologies folded into Windows, the blitzkrieg is on. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   MS Denies Windows 'Spy Key' - Experts have discovered a hidden key in Microsoft Windows that they say grants high-level access to the most powerful spy agency in the United States. Hogwash, says Redmond. By Steve Kettmann and James Glave. [Wired News]   MS Kaffe-Maker Swallows Java - Transvirtual Technologies releases software linking Java to Windows, something Sun once sued Microsoft for doing. Guess where Transvirtual got some of its funding? By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   MS Patches Privacy Peephole - Microsoft promises to address a software privacy problem, but it's still not clear what the company can see through Windows 98. [Wired News]   MS Wins Patent for Web Standard - Microsoft is handed the rights to a technology that developers fear will give the company control over next-generation design. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   MS' Massive Y2K Campaign - The software maker will send 80 million emails and snail mails to customers, reminding them to update computers before the odometer changes to 2000. Chris Stamper reports from Seattle. [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 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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