Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   McGwire: Another Bust-Out Year? - Androstenedione, the drug made famous by super-slugger Mark McGwire, increases the chance of heart disease and may also cause breast enlargement, a new study finds. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   McGwire: Athlete of the Future - Sure, the ace slugger is 6-foot-5 and has huge forearms. But his use of technology in conditioning is setting the standard for future athletes. By Steve Kettmann. [Wired News]   Med-Tech 'Decades Behind' - The woeful state of medical technology is costing patients their health and hurting their wallets, according to a leading Microsoft researcher. The Net is the answer. Michael Stroud reports from Santa Barbara. [Wired News]   Medicine by Satellite - Scientists are developing satellite technology to transmit advanced medical images used in cancer treatment to remote hospitals and clinics. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Meet the Double-Decker MP3-CD - NetDrives is set to release the Brujo, a home stereo component that will play both conventional CDs and MP3 files that have been burned onto plastic. [Wired News]   Melissa Was But a Sniffle - While Melissa was grabbing the media spotlight, another, much more lethal virus was waiting in the shadows, quietly counting down to 26 April. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Melissa, Spawned by Spam - Melissa trackers are nearing the source of the virus. They suspect a mix of spam-gone-bad and malicious intent from a famed virus author. By Leander Kahney and Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Memory Boost for Palm V - Hardware hackers have found a way to upgrade the slimline Palm Pilot V's meager 2MBs of memory. And engineers have turned the warranty-voiding service into a lucrative venture. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Mercury Rising - Marine salvage crews discover the sunken wreckage of a Mercury space capsule. It may answer a riddle from the early days of space exploration. [Wired News]   Mercury's Scary Migration - Scientists have known that fish can absorb mercury into their bloodstreams, but they thought brain tissue was protected. Until now. [Wired News]   Messaging Alliances Take Shape - Battle lines are being drawn in the instant messaging skirmish, as America Online and Microsoft pull interested parties into their camps. [Wired News]   Meteor Watching By Balloon - NASA scientists launch a camera-equipped, helium-filled balloon to broadcast the upcoming Perseids meteor shower online. Even clouds can't mar this view. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Micro Devices Get Nuked - Researchers get funding to build nuclear batteries as thin as a human hair. The miniature power cells will use radioactive decay for energy. By Oscar S. Cisneros. [Wired News]   Micron's Not-So-Free PC - Micron gives PCs away to customers who sign up for premium Internet access services costing more than US$1,000. Also: Iomega sues competitor Castlewood for patent infringement. [Wired News]   Microsoft Off Truste's Hook - The Internet watchdog scotches an investigation of Microsoft that would have tested Truste's ability to oversee consumers' online privacy. A consumer privacy advocate appeals to the Federal Trade Commission. [Wired News]   Microsoft Patches Privacy Holes - Microsoft issues a patch for Office to fix a glitch. The download will prevent the software from invisibly tagging documents with user information. [Wired News]   Microsoft Posts Web Server Fix - Microsoft has a temporary work-around for a security hole in its Internet Information Server. And it criticizes the Internet security firm that discovered the hole for publicizing it before a software patch was posted. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   Microsoft Shows Off at Mobicom - Microsoft research was on parade at the Mobicom technical conference in Seattle, where attendees looked into the future of wireless. Niall McKay reports from Seattle. [Wired News]   Microsoft's Music Agenda - The software maker will disclose its plans for distributing audio and video files over the Net next month. What a coincidence that the announcement will be made on the music industry's home turf. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Microsoft: Paper Is Dead - Long live e-publishing! Microsoft's head of technology says newsprint and leather bound volumes will be surpassed by digital delivery within a decade. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. [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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