Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   A Search for the Highest Bidder - You know what you're looking for. Will you find it once AltaVista finishes selling its most-requested search terms? By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   A Weekend on the Moon - Buzz Aldrin suggests that tourism could boldly take space exploration where NASA failed to go, and studies show a market exists for such pricey travel. [Wired News]   ABC Site Falls to Crackers - A group calling itself the United Loan Gunmen replace the home page for the ABC Television network with an anti-corporate call to arms. By James Glave. [Wired News]   AIDS Mystery Solved - University of Alabama researchers pinpoint the origin of the virus that causes AIDS. An African chimpanzee who died in 1985 provides the definitive clue. [Wired News]   AOL Blockades Yahoo and MSN - Microsoft and Yahoo irritate AOL by launching compatible messaging clients this week. Hours later, the services stop communicating. Fingers are pointed at AOL. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   AOL Disconnects MS Messaging - AOL took its fight over instant messaging into Microsoft territory Friday, knocking MSN chat users off their own service if they dared to chat with AOL customers. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   AOL Insta-Spams MSN Messenger - AOL continues its spat with Microsoft. A mass instant message to MSN Messenger users says don't use unauthorized software, use ours. [Wired News]   AOL Reworks Spam Team - Long praised for cracking down on spammers, AOL is now cutting back its junk email task force. Does a reorg mean more or less spam for the Net? By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   AOL Uses Apple to Send Message - America Online partners with Apple on instant messaging products while continuing to turn its back on Microsoft. By John Gartner. [Wired News]   AOL's Chat and Mouse Game - Microsoft releases another patch to get around America Online's instant messaging service blockade. How long will this one last? By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   AT&T to Build At Home's Backbone - The company that offers Internet access over cable now says super-fast fiber will enable it to handle 5 million broadband customers. Now all it has to do is find them. [Wired News]   AT&T-BT Pulls in Push Chief - PointCast's Dave Dorman will head the two telecom giants' joint venture, returning to the industry where he flourished. [Wired News]   ATM Wants to Be Your Friend - A new biometric ATM prototype named Stella can see, hear, and talk to its customers. With machines like these, who needs friends? By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Acid Rain Redux - Rain falling on Midwestern cities is contaminated with levels of mercury far exceeding those considered safe for humans. A new campaign to clean the rain is under way. [Wired News]   Adding ROM to Your DVD - The wildly popular format isn't just for movie-watching. Developers and backers want their DVD-ROM, and they want it now. Andy Patrizio reports from the DVD Forum Conference '99. [Wired News]   Adobe Unleashes 'Quark Killer' - Adobe CEO John Warnock climbed the main stage at Seybold/Boston to unveil K2, the much anticipated QuarkXPress killer. By Jill Priluck. [Wired News]   Advertising Comes to Software - First there was free content on the Internet. Then free access. Followed by free computers. What's next? Free commercial software -- with a catch, of course. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Advocate Issues Windows Warning - A privacy watchdog says Microsoft's user registration and pay-as-you-go plans for Windows 2000 could result in the unprecedented collection of user data. No way, says Microsoft. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   After the Fix: Lockdown - Indications are that many companies, having addressed Y2K, are clamping down on further capital investment until after the turn of the millennium. [Wired News]   Agriculture from an Armchair - The farmer in the dell, the farmer's on the cell. Tomatoes on line one, and cattle on line two. Tania Hershman reports from Israel. [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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