Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Space Industry Blasts New Policy - The US space industry is all aflutter over new legislation that changes licensing for satellites and related technologies. Polly Sprenger reports from Colorado Springs. [Wired News]   Space Museum or Scrap Heap? - NASA goes begging for spare parts for its space shuttle program. Pieces of solid rocket boosters on display at an Alabama museum may find a new use in the international space station. [Wired News]   Space Seeds - Researchers find that chemicals commonly found in space will produce the building blocks of life when exposed to conditions simulating primordial Earth's atmosphere. [Wired News]   Space Station Back on Track - Things are looking up for the International Space Station. The Russian Space Agency worked out its shaky financing and will participate with NASA in the next mission on 20 May. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Space Travel Not So Far Out - The space industry is pinning its financial hopes on commercialization. Get ready for space tourism, moon villages, and satellite phones for every home in America. Polly Sprenger reports from Colorado Springs. [Wired News]   Space.com Launches - Fans of alien abductions, extraterrestrials, and space exploration get a new site for news on the anniversary of the first moon walk. Coincidence or something more? [Wired News]   Spam That's Out of This World - Swatch will promote a new line of Internet watches by broadcasting messages from a satellite. Ham operators say the Swiss company is using a radio band reserved for non-commercial broadcasting. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Sparking the Plug-and-Play Car - Motorola develops a streamlined socket system for plugging info gadgets into autos. Adding wireless news, entertainment, and ads could get much simpler. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]   Speculators Inundate InterNIC - The domain-name registrar hires extra staff and installs new hardware to cope with a string of attacks from spammers. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Speech Systems Get a New Voice - A voice compression system that was used by the British army is finding its way into mobile phone networks and smartcards in Europe. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Starium Promises Phone Privacy - A tiny startup has a big idea: To sell cheap, untappable telephones. But not everyone wants Americans to have absolute privacy. Least of all, the government. Declan McCullagh reports from Monterey, California. [Wired News]   States Bug-Free for FY2000 - Forty-six states began their fiscal year 2000 on 1 July, and none report any computer glitches. [Wired News]   States to Face Early Y2K Test - The fiscal year 2000 -- will it spell doom for states' computer systems? Several state technology officers say they've had no problems with the rollover from 1999 to 2000. [Wired News]   Stopping Melanoma in its Tracks - Scientists map the location of two new genes that can control the growth of deadly skin cancer cells. [Wired News]   Storm Chasing with a Laptop - Punxsutawney Phil never stuck his neck out like this. Severe storm trackers find it easier to get into -- and out of -- harm's way, thanks to new Internet monitoring tools. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Stream and Shout - At Home and RealNetworks are building a new streaming platform for fat pipes. The system promises new content that is at once clear, compelling ... and costly. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Summus Faces Uphill Fight - The tiny company signs a distribution deal to push out a plug-in that it says will tune up media players from heavyweights RealNetworks and Microsoft. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Sun Aligns with Palm and Apache - Sun gains important allies -- and mutual Microsoft enemies -- in its battle for platform dominance, joining hands with the Palm and open-source movements. John Gartner reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   Sun Does Telecom Gear - The Netra 1800 server is at the center of a new effort to grab hold of the telecommunications equipment market. [Wired News]   Sun Joins Graphics Chip Fracas - The Java company is trying something new -- designing a chip that runs other languages. The company joins in the quest to capture multimedia and game developers. By Andy Patrizio. [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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