Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Bandage Feels Your Pain - The latest open sores development: smart bandages with built-in sensors that detect healing. The newly patented technology lets doctors track your progress. [Wired News]   Beaming Is Believing - Teleportation isn't just Star Trek fare any more. New research says practical applications for quantum transport are closer than we think. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   BellSouth, 3Com Get Speedy - The phone company wants to make digital subscriber lines accessible in the South, so it'll offer 3Com modems and joint sales, online and off. [Wired News]   Berlin Subways Smarten Up - A new smartcard system on Berlin's subway, tram, and bus lines will give riders even more reasons to use public transport. [Wired News]   Better Odds for Kidney Patients - An experimental process that filters out antibodies may increase the chances of survival for kidney transplant patients. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Better Weather with Tech - Powerful computers and new satellites will allow meteorologists to peer further into the future. Could this actually bring meaning to the five-day forecast? [Wired News]   Big Blue Does Digital Broadcast - The computer giant said it will team up with five companies to secure digitally broadcast content... Also: Owners of the mighty Rio MP3 player can now dress up the device. [Wired News]   Big Bucks for Big Numbers - An anonymous donor is backing a contest that fosters cooperative computing as a solution to unraveling technical Gordian knots. Though the exercise itself -- discovering the biggest prime numbers ever -- is largely an academic one, the cooperation's the thing. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Bigfoot Users Get a Hotfoot - Users sending email to Bigfoot's customer service department now have something else to complain about: a copy of the Happy99 worm that found its way into Bigfoot's servers. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   Bighearted Big Blue - To persuade leery competitors to adopt its critical new chip-making technology, IBM is giving it away. It's a step that will benefit the whole industry. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Biometric Banking Bides Time - The next generation of banking systems will store your fingerprint, voice, and other biometric information alongside your available cash balance. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Biometrics Breaks Into Prisons - Sophisticated technology allows inmates to be identified by scanning their irises or taking their voice prints. Corrections officials say this is more reliable than fingerprinting, but privacy advocates worry. By Vince Beiser. [Wired News]   Biotech Quits Cancer Drug - Bristol-Myers says developing the promising remedy with EntreMed proved too difficult and leaves the fledging pharmaceutical to make a go of it alone. [Wired News]   Birth of an RFC Nation - What better way to celebrate the anniversary of the Internet's mundane but pivotal collaboration process than by creating an RFC about it? Those engineers sure know how to party. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Black Holes of a Different Color? - What color is a black hole? It's not a trick question. Astronomers claim they've found bright-pink black holes in galaxies that are more than 1 billion light-years away. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Blockbuster to Rent PC Games - Blockbuster rolls out PC videogame rentals with a Net twist: The games include antipiracy software that must be unlocked by a Web site. Smells like DiVX. By John Gartner. [Wired News]   Blood Treatment on the Go - A medical device developed by a research team in Washington state may be able to deliver constant, portable treatment to patients suffering from leukemia and AIDS. [Wired News]   Boeing: 'Sea Launch' Is On - A grand jury is reportedly probing data transfers to Russia and Ukraine. But the company says it'll go ahead with plans to launch satellite-carrying rockets from converted oil platforms. [Wired News]   Bogus Email Eats MS Data - An email carrying a dangerous data-eating attachment is circulating the Net, and making Microsoft miserable. Guess who the sender is? By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Boosting Biometric Privacy - An industry association releases a set of biometric guidelines designed to protect the privacy of retina scans, voice prints, and other personal data. Critics see holes. By Heidi Kriz. [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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