Tech Week In Review 2000.12.04 - 2000.12.10 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Napster.com is becoming one of the most popular web-sites in the world... True electronic paper, five years away... University of Nebraska claim Quantum dot construction improvements... 5-year old PlayStation tops console sales... "Phasers on stun" to be used by US police & military? Crypto group tries to "bring back" user privacy... IBM introduces new cheap imaging sensor to be used in Digital Still Cameras... Will NASA be the first to build a crash-free computer? Expensive space probe Cassini reaches Jupiters. (Shoots sharp images of the gas giant) CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: Super-silicon Palomino runs at 1.5 GHz without active cooling? Microsoft chooses Micron to supply DDR SDRAM for the X-Box. AMD 760 motherboards delayed... Intel cuts CPU prices... IBM & Infineon join in developing Magnetic RAM (MRAM)... Intel closes the gap with a 1.3 GHz P4? Motorola licences CPU from competitor ARM. AMD about to launch mobile Durons? Itanium explained at Sharky's... Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Sun initiates JAVA Peer2Peer... Norwegian web-browser Opera version 5.0 ships for free.