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Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands On a late fall afternoon on the western edge of the Netherlands, coastal engineer Marcel Stive stands atop a 40-foot dune. He stares out beyond the posse of wet-suit-clad surfers wading into the breakers of the North Sea. Where the surfers see inviting waves, Stive sees dry land—and a d Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands On a late fall afternoon on the western edge of the Netherlands, coastal engineer Marcel Stive stands atop a 40-foot dune. He stares out beyond the posse of wet-suit-clad surfers wading into the breakers of the North Sea. Where the surfers see inviting waves, Stive sees dry land—and a d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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'F**k the Country Channel', says the Country Channel Web TV outfit in email newsletter shocker We're very much obliged to the shocked reader who forwarded us an email newsletter from online TV outfit The Country Channel, which appears to dedicate its time to dancing with horses, tractor-pulling and sniffing out British cheeseries.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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The 7 deadly sins of IT management Let the IT manager who is without sin cast the first stone.OK, we're still waiting.Odds are, you've committed some venal sins at work -- if not mortal ones. Whether it's falli Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Web's best free stuff Free: It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet I'm sitting in a sterile white conference room waiting for Hiroyuki Nishimura. Japan is a nation where the 3:17 train arrives every day at 3:17 — not 3:16 or 3:18 — and Nishimura is 45 minutes late. The PR assistant who painstakingly coordinated our interview, a typical salarym Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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The three business tech risks you don't know about Business travelers will soon need to carry the name of their corporate lawyer in addition to their passport when returning home to the United States, and they may need to bring with them a different business laptop as well. This is because U.S. Customs can search and Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire For a long time, maybe a year and a half, the game was pretty much what remained of Brock Pierce's life: He would wake up, sit down at his computer, log in, and play. Thirteen dollars a month bought him around-the-clock access to this imaginary world, a place of perilous dungeons and enchante Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire For a long time, maybe a year and a half, the game was pretty much what remained of Brock Pierce's life: He would wake up, sit down at his computer, log in, and play. Thirteen dollars a month bought him around-the-clock access to this imaginary world, a place of perilous dungeons and enchante Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The many overlaps of politics and technology Over the past 100 years I've been writing this column, readers have sent me several irate letters because they were enraged that I would dare to bring politics into a technically oriented publication. For those of you who feel this way, you might want to stop reading Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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How IT could have prevented the financial meltdown In the coming weeks, the feds and the surviving financial services institutions will have the daunting task of unraveling all the securitized loans and other instruments that are hiding the toxic investments. But does the technology exist to do that? And if so, could Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All SAN DIEGO -- Christopher Tarnovsky feels vindicated. The software engineer and former satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars. But two w Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All SAN DIEGO -- Christopher Tarnovsky feels vindicated. The software engineer and former satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars. But two w Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for tho Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for tho Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for tho Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Can the Clearwire coalition save WiMax? For the past year, WiMax has been a technology under siege.It has faced criticism as an unreliable and untested technology, and not only from promoters of the rival HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) and LTE (Long- Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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A Brief Tour of the Japanese Web I'm sitting in a smoky room on the second floor of a Tully's Coffee in Western Tokyo, looking over the shoulder of Ichiroo Kiyota as he types on his laptop. Kiyota, an executive at Six Apart Japan, is showing me around some of the most popular — and useless — Web apps in the countr Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |