Tech Week In Review 2001.01.01 - 2001.01.07 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every sunday. Du to some technical issue, my host server was down on sunday which delayed this update. General IT RELATED STORIES: Study shows Internet is still a commercial failure... Y2k bug hits Norway one year later than expected. Intel enters the digital audio consumer market. Laser on silicon, technical breakthrough. Bluetooth turns cell-phones into wallets. X-box pics leak out. Bill gates shows X-Box prototype. TDK's Multilevel Recording tech revisited. Seagate to make HardDrives for PS2. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: Intel finally rolls out 100MHz FSB Celerons (800MHz) Compaq rolls out 1GHz Alphas. Anandtech reviews VIA's new 0.15 micron Cyrix III CPU. The old rumour about Transmeta helping AMD with "Sledgehammer" has been confirmed. SDRAM prices at record low levels.. Samsung declared that it controls over 50% of the Rambus market. Mitsubishi next in line to have signed a Rambus license. Cheaper DDR SDRAM from Micron. Philips still have faith in Transmeta. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: The long awaited Linux kernel v 2.4 finally released. Misc Science Roundup RELATED STORIES: NASA to send robot ants to asteroids? Lunar eclipse to be broadcast live on the net on January 9:th.