Tech Week In Review 2001.01.22 - 2001.01.28 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Ericsson adjusts mobile phone strategy. Microsoft's DNS trouble resulting in worldwide blackouts. No more Dreamcast consoles from SEGA? SEGA denies it, but is it true? Java battle between Microsoft and Sun temporarily over? Sony talks about it's Playstation 3(three) ambitions. DOS attacks follow up Microsoft's DNS troubles. PC benchmark creator claims Intel are "not playing it straight". Dreamcast consoles reincarnated as set-top boxes? CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: ARM licenses Power VR 3D technology. nVidia licenses AMD's LDT. VIA debuts 700MHz "Samuel" CPU (Cyrix III). Itanium 32 bit x86 performance on par with old 100MHz Pentiums... 1.3 GHz Athlon on monday? AMD won't use the EV6 bus in 64-bit "Sledgehammer". Big price cuts from Intel this week. IBM's server chip-set virtually doubles memory size through hardware data compression. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Direct X 8a is out. Softimage XSI 1.5 ships. Discreet ships 3DS Max 4.0 Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: Spacestation Mir "killer" now in orbit.