Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Researchers Swoon for Big Bucks - Private industry has spent significantly more money on university research funding in the past 20 years. Scientists worry about the chilling effect on the free exchange of information. Chris Oakes reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Wired News]   Reuters to Beam News to PDAs - The news service teams with Ericsson to test a device that delivers instant news to mobile phones and PDAs. Also: ExciteAtHome is set to sell its high-speed cable Internet service in Circuit City stores. [Wired News]   Rio Goes Crypto - Upcoming versions of the Rio MP3 player will have a system for enforcing copyrights on digital music files. Meanwhile, an Australian company has built MP3 software for Windows CE devices. [Wired News]   Rio Sings Toll-Free Calling Tune - The Rio MP3 playback device can play more than digital music. Hackers are circulating instructions for making it emulate the sound of quarters entering old pay phones. [Wired News]   Robot to Monitor Chernobyl - The US sends a robot to the Ukraine to monitor a dangerous room near the core of the meltdown. The remote-controlled machine will spare humans the task of analyzing the structural damage. [Wired News]   Rocket Failure Redux - The US military halts the test of a missile defense system after the target rocket launch goes awry. Yet another flawed Star Wars sequel. [Wired News]   Rocket Plane Test Flight A-OK - Strapped beneath a jetliner, the X-34 reusable rocket plane soars over the Southern California desert. It's a glimpse of cheap space launches to come. Polly Sprenger reports from Edwards Air Force Base. [Wired News]   Roller Coaster Hits a New High - If you like the idea of withstanding 4.7Gs while being flipped and turned at high speed, then Great America's new coaster is for you. By Debbi Gardiner. [Wired News]   Rubik's Cube and Y2K - What's the connection? The same kid who solved that darned puzzle at age 12 has resurfaced to pitch a solution for the millennium bug. [Wired News]   Russian Launch Site in Jeopardy - A facility in Kazakhstan that's leased by the Russians and used by international satellite companies could be on hold after a rocket failure Monday. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Russians Sanguine About Y2K - The country has less than US$4 million to spend on readying the computers that control its huge nuclear arsenal. No system testing is scheduled until October. No worries, officials say. [Wired News]   Rykodisc Endorses MP3 - The independent record label makes a deal with GoodNoise: For 99 cents a track, they'll sell you tunes from Zappa, Cockburn, Morphine, and others using the controversial digital music format. [Wired News]   SDMI Chooses Tracking Tech - The Secure Digital Music Initiative chooses a watermarking technology for players. It's a small step, and the group still has a long way to go. [Wired News]   SDMI Spec Restricts CD Copying - The new spec designed to control digital music piracy wasn't supposed to apply to existing CDs. But one such scheme made its way into the final version anyway. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   SF Moving to Smart Card Transit - The San Francisco Bay Area's transportation authority wants to build a unified ticketing system. Critics and commuters put a higher premium on better service. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   SGI and HP Pick Up Linux - The open-source OS scores points in the corporate world as Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard say they will offer the software on some of their Intel-based computers. [Wired News]   Sad State of the Final Frontier - After two failed launches and US$1 billion in insurance premiums, the US space industry takes a long, hard look in the mirror. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Safe Diabetes Drugs On the Way - Two new drugs for the most common form of diabetes await approval from the FDA. Unlike most drugs on the market today, the new drugs don't appear to have significant side effects. [Wired News]   Safeguarding the Next Mars Probe - The loss of the latest Mars probe won't affect its sibling mission already en route to the red planet. But will NASA scientists ever get over the loss? By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Same Hole, Different Exploit - The Windows NT security hole that emerged for the second time Monday has a new exploit, and it was released by a hacker on Friday. 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 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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