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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Is the End of Unlimited Internet Near? Comcast's announcement of usage caps is reflective of changes in the industry. Home > Rss Directory > General > ABC 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 > 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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12 myths about how the Internet works Thirty years have passed since the Internet Protocol was first described in a series of technical documents written by early experimenters . Since then, countless engineers have created systems and applications that rely on IP as the communications link between people Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Startup hopes to lower cell phone costs within the enterprise Strata8 Networks, which officially opened its doors for business on Thursday, is offering a new twist on helping enterprises to lower their cell phone costs.The company, which has its own cellular spectrum licen Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The devilish details of desktop virtualization Faced with a massive PC refresh at a price tag of $1.8 million, Jack Wilson instead rolled the dice on virtual desktops three years ago. The enterprise architect at Amerisure Insurance didn't just dabble in the nascent technology, he enacted a sweeping change, replaci Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Gallery: Measuring the History of Electricity : Photo: mtowber/flickrThe invention of the electric meter made it possible to bill customers for electricity, creating the incentive to build out the nation's first network for moving electrons. The Grid, the system of dumb, buzzing wires that allows power to move across the country, is so imp Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: Measuring the History of Electricity : Photo: mtowber/flickrThe invention of the electric meter made it possible to bill customers for electricity, creating the incentive to build out the nation's first network for moving electrons. The Grid, the system of dumb, buzzing wires that allows power to move across the country, is so imp Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch : The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last yea Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch : The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last yea Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Microsoft: IE8 release candidate 'just around the corner' Microsoft Tuesday said that the release candidate for Internet Explorer 8 is "just around the corner" and urged developers to get ready to test their sites with the new browser.Elsewhere, the TG Daily technology Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs Errol Morris is one of the world's great digressive talkers, and once he gets started it's almost impossible to stop him. "I don't trust people who don't talk too much," he often says. "You never know what they're thinking." In a crisp white shirt and khaki shorts, the filmma Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft can't refuse As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30, yet most of these low-cost laptops won't be powerful en Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Cloud computing to the max Cloud services claim to provide nearly everything you need without requiring you to run your own IT infrastructure. From e-mail and Web hosting to fully managed applications to vast on-demand computing resources, the cloud is shaping up to be one of the most important Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Beauty of Bridges : The bridge is among our most ancient technologies. The moment some distant ancestor thought to place a log where he (or she) wanted to cross the stream, and not where the logs happen to have fallen, the bridge was born. A bridge inspires us. A bridge overcomes an obstacle and connects Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Beauty of Bridges : The bridge is among our most ancient technologies. The moment some distant ancestor thought to place a log where he (or she) wanted to cross the stream, and not where the logs happen to have fallen, the bridge was born. A bridge inspires us. A bridge overcomes an obstacle and connects Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Discs Meet the Internet in Next-Gen Blu-ray Players Six years after its official launch, the consumer electronics industry's high-definition successor to DVD still hasn't taken off. That's got manufacturers concerned enough to take action. Fortunately for consumers, the action will include lowering prices, adding features and integ Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |