Terra Lycos's Wired News Unveils the Year's Most Overhyped New Technologies That Never Were With the 2001 Vaporware Awards.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2002 Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. Readers Vote for the Top 10 Most Eagerly Awaited Technology Products that Never Made it to Consumers Terra Lycos (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : TRLY and Madrid Exchange: TRR TRR Transportation Research Record (Journal) TRR Test Readiness Review TRR Target Ranging Radar TRR Total Rate of Return TRR Taiwan Research Reactor ), the largest global Internet network, today announced the winners of the Wired News (http://www.wirednews.com) Vaporware Software that is not yet in production, but the announced delivery date has long since passed. At times, software vendors are criticized for intentionally producing vaporware in order to keep customers from switching to competitive products that offer more features. awards, the top 10 most eagerly awaited and hyped technologies of 2001 that never materialized. As the technology industry continues to crank out crank 1 n. 1. A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft. 2. A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit: quips and cranks. hyped-up products that promise to revolutionize both the industry and daily lives of consumers, Wired News follows them from conception to delivery. Thousands of nominations were submitted by Wired News readers for products that were either delayed, postponed, pushed back or scratched all together after much ballyhooed announcements. Products that actually made it to the market, no matter how commercially unsuccessful they turned out to be, do not qualify. The Vaporware awards are granted solely to products that never reached the market.
The Vaporware winners for most overrated technologies of 2001 are:
1) 3D Realm's Duke Nukem Forever - taking top honors with its video
game that's been four years in the making
2) Warcraft III - Blizzard software's much anticipated next offering
in its popular Warcraft series, making its second consecutive
appearance on the Vaporware list
3) Photoshop for OS X - Adobe Photoshop is still not available for
Apple's new operating system
4) Team Fortress - groundbreaking multi-player game promised to be
released by Value software for several years and counting
5) 3G Wireless Networks - next-generation wireless service
6) Silicon Film's Electronic Film System - digital film that is still
vapor after a year of hype
7) Digiscents' iSmell - first consumer "personal scent synthesizer"
8) Artificial Intelligence - talking, thinking, "living" computers
9) Peekabooty - "anti-censorship" Web surfing tool promised early
last year
10) Indrema - purportedly groundbreaking open-source game console
Wired News has been recognizing the most eagerly awaited technologies that never were since 1998. Many of the previous winners, such as Mac OS X, a winner in 2000, or Windows 2000, a winner in 1999, have since been released and have garnered acclaim. Other inventions, even though they made it to the market after being declared "vapor" by Wired News, have been less successful. In 2000, many in the technology industry were hailing the replacement of the PC with "web pads See Webpad. ." That year, "web pads" placed ninth in the Vaporware awards. Since then, the company that developed the product launched and then un-launched Audrey, a portable Web "appliance." The company declared the demand for non-PC Web devices too small to make such products profitable. "We are proud to offer the fourth consecutive Vaporware awards that inform our readers of the most highly anticipated goods or services that failed to be transformed from vapor into tangible technology," said George Shirk shirk In Islam, idolatry and polytheism, both of which are regarded as heretical. The Qu'ran stresses that God does not share his powers with any partner (sharik) and warns that those who believe in idols will be harshly dealt with on the Day of Judgment. , editor-in-chief of Wired News. "Wired News gives readers access to one of the best established daily technology news services in the world that follows the technologies, companies and people driving and hyping the Internet age." About Terra Lycos Terra Lycos is a global Internet network operating in 43 countries in 20 languages, reaching 109 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. Created by the combination of Terra Networks Terra Networks, S. A., usually referred to as "Terra", is an Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain. Part of Telefónica Group (the former Spain's public telephone monopoly and now one of the most important telecommunications companies in the world), Terra , S.A. and Lycos, Inc., in October 2000, Terra Lycos is one of the most popular Internet networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , and is the largest Internet access provider See ISP. (networking, company) Internet Access Provider - (IAP) A company or other origanisation which provides access to the Internet to businesses and/or consumers. in Spain and Latin America. The Terra Lycos network of sites includes Lycos.com, Terra.com, Angelfire.com, ATuHora.com, Gamesville.com, HotBot.com, Invertia.com, Lycos Zone, Matchmaker.com, Quote.com, Rumbo.com, Sonique, Tripod.com, RagingBull.com and Wired News (Wired.com). The company's headquarters are in Barcelona and it has major offices in Boston, Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. , Madrid, Miami, Monterrey and Sao Paulo among others. It is listed on the Madrid stock exchange Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Madrid) The largest of Spain's four stock exchanges. (TRR) and on the Nasdaq electronic market (TRLY). For more information, please visit our corporate Web site at http://www.terralycos.com. (c)2001 Lycos, Inc. Lycos(R)is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon. All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Terra Networks, S.A., Lycos, Inc. or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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