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Why text messaging may be on the way out Text messaging may be huge right now, but Don Reisinger believes it won't last forever. And with the advent of chatting applications for cell phones, he thinks its end may be near. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Groups push for FCC to act on text-message blocking The U.S. Federal Communications Commission needs to prohibit mobile phone carriers from blocking text messages from competitors, a group of advocacy groups said Monday.Mobile carriers continue to block text mess Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Alt Text: Killjoy Cooking With the Dungeons & Dragons Crowd Cookbooks are a lot like Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games. They contain seemingly rigid rules that, in practice, require a certain amount of adaptation for your own tastes. So how come cooking gets its own TV channel and role-playing games don't even get a show on G Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Alt Text: Killjoy Cooking With the Dungeons & Dragons Crowd Cookbooks are a lot like Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games. They contain seemingly rigid rules that, in practice, require a certain amount of adaptation for your own tastes. So how come cooking gets its own TV channel and role-playing games don't even get a show on G Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Alt Text: Con Men Lose Their Cool in the E-Mail Era The online world has improved many things. Classified ads are simpler to search, obscure books are easy to get your hands on for the right price, and if you wish to see any two cartoon characters having sex with each other, you have only to ask. However, I think even the most forw Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Alt Text: Con Men Lose Their Cool in the E-Mail Era The online world has improved many things. Classified ads are simpler to search, obscure books are easy to get your hands on for the right price, and if you wish to see any two cartoon characters having sex with each other, you have only to ask. However, I think even the most forw Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. Yet peop Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. Yet peop Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Alt Text: A Wistful Geek Heads for Sweet iPhone Hell I do not, as of yet, own an iPhone. However, soon my cellphone provider will be unlocking the door, shooing away the rats, taking off my shackles and releasing me from my contract. At that point I will be buying an iPhone. Not because it's a shiny new Jobs-job, not because several Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Alt Text: A Wistful Geek Heads for Sweet iPhone Hell I do not, as of yet, own an iPhone. However, soon my cellphone provider will be unlocking the door, shooing away the rats, taking off my shackles and releasing me from my contract. At that point I will be buying an iPhone. Not because it's a shiny new Jobs-job, not because several Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code The creator of a mass text-messaging system used to aid protesters during the 2004 Republican National Convention is resisting releasing information on its users. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Developers explain why they're avoiding Vista Windows developers are confirming the results of a survey released yesterday that found fewer than 1 in 12 programmers currently writing applications targeting Windows Vista."None of our customers are saying, 'G Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Alt Text: Sad Explanations for Supernatural Phenomena I was pleased to see the recent news about alien images appearing on a wall in Canada. If you haven't seen the story, the upshot is that some reflected light shows up every non-overcast day on someone's house in Calgary, and the resulting image looks something like a cross between Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Alt Text: Sad Explanations for Supernatural Phenomena I was pleased to see the recent news about alien images appearing on a wall in Canada. If you haven't seen the story, the upshot is that some reflected light shows up every non-overcast day on someone's house in Calgary, and the resulting image looks something like a cross between Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |