Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   CPU Contests No Trivial Pursuits - Forget scientific discoveries and cash prizes. Distributed computing contests are all about bragging rights. People will do anything to top the charts. By Andy Patrizio. [Wired News]   Cable Boxes See What You See - The next generation of standard cable boxes can be used to create profiles of your viewing habits. Even cable companies worry about the privacy implications. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Cable Modems Going Retail - Hardware vendors and cable operators are building compatible products that should arrive in stores soon. Good-bye monthly rental fees. By John Gartner. [Wired News]   Calling Dick Tracy - Lucent Technology zeroes in on a phone-cum-wristwatch. Also: iMac colors coming to clone PCs, and an email appliance for the technology averse. [Wired News]   Can Boeing Rescue Globalstar? - Boeing will launch 24 satellites this year and four more in 2000, to help a struggling Globalstar get its global cellular network up and running. [Wired News]   Can the Internet Drive You Mad? - The Internet may be like communism for paranoid psychotics. Patients diagnosed in the Web age are replacing the Red Scare with "Internet fear." By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Cancer Detection by Computer - New imaging technology could help specialists interpret mammograms more accurately. But doctors worry about the price of being too precise. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Cancer Drug Too Strong for Kids - A new type of cancer treatment prevents tumor growth but also inhibits bone development. That makes the experimental drugs too risky for children and pregnant women. [Wired News]   Car C230, Where Are You? - Mercedes jumps on the wireless wagon, becoming the latest automaker to install emergency navigation and communications systems. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Casinos Fight Back with Tech - The gambling industry has been slow to adopt cutting-edge surveillance technologies to combat snake-eyed scam artists. But now the house is on a roll. Vince Beiser reports from Las Vegas. [Wired News]   Casting New Light on Dark Stars - Startling new astronomical research suggests black holes may produce far more power than scientists ever dreamed. [Wired News]   Cell Phone for Calling Up Tunes - Samsung launches a cell phone in Korea that can store up to 15 minutes of music files. A US version will be ready for people to rock in the New Year with MP3s. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Cell Study: Hazards Are Real - Studies questioning the health dangers of cell phone use aren't new. But industry-funded studies supporting those findings are. Chris Oakes reports from Long Beach, California. [Wired News]   Cell-Phone Calls Streamed on Net - Basement webcasters are using an AOL-owned streaming service to pipe private cellular phone conversations out onto the Net. AOL is digging into the issue. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Cells Curse the Promised Land - Israelis love their cell phones, but many are casting nervous glances at the thousands of antennas sprouting like weeds on their rooftops. Tania Hershman reports from Jerusalem. [Wired News]   Cells May Grant Viral Immunity - A new study shows injecting specialized cells can temporarily boost immmunity. Researchers hope it could lead to vaccines for cancer, herpes, and HIV. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Censoring Censorware - One University of Massachusetts student is so opposed to the idea of censorship that he's offering software code to disable the blocking software provided by Internet Explorer. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Centraal Piggybacks on Inktomi - Centraal inks a deal with the search tech company that takes keyword browsing a big step closer to Web ubiquity. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Chat Users Get Voicemail - If your chat pal isn't online or answering the phone, a new service will send a voicemail to his inbox. Although the call is free, the Fone427 service isn't. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Cheap PC Doesn't Do Windows - A California computer maker is offering a PC with a fast processor for only US$299. How do they do it? They dump Microsoft Windows. [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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