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Randomization and universal keycard access top Stewart's agenda for this fall. She says the council will lobby the administration for its promised review of the four-year old randomized House lottery system. The council will form a committee and draft a report...
...real sprint for technological superiority could take place when operators begin switching over to a third generation of mobile phones around the year 2003. Once again, the Europeans and Japanese have agreed on a technical standard called Wideband Code Division Multiple Access as the successor to GSM, but differences with American manufacturer Qualcomm mean that the U.S. will probably adopt a different standard from Europe's and Asia...
...world's more populated areas by 2001. Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps the size of football fields, tethered 14 miles above large cities. Last July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) okayed the radio frequencies that the company will require...
More than one person has tried to take down the New York Times and lost. But last week a group of hackers calling themselves HFG--Hacking for Girlies--shut down the Times's website for nine hours. People trying to access the Times's Web page got instead a mixture of messages of support for imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick, nude pictures and some vituperation about CAROLYN MEINEL, a 50-year-old New Mexican who wrote The Happy Hacker, a book about the methods criminal hackers use, in which she compares them to terrorists. Meinel says every Internet-access provider...
...planning eight operations, timed to coincide with the Jewish holidays. The Israelis, officials say, moved just hours before the brothers were due to meet two comrades, and while the Awadallahs were killed, the two others remain at large. Israeli security officials now fear that Hamas, which they think has access to tons of homemade explosives, will launch attacks in revenge...