Tech Week In Review
2001.02.05 - 2001.02.11
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday.

General IT
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Playstation 2 to have a shorter life-span than expected? Playstation 3 details emerge.
Dell takes the #1 spot from Compaq?
1 billion "surfers" in 2005?
Federal Trading Commission to investigate Rambus.
Sandia National Laboratory are building the worlds smallest robot.
Microsoft's "XBox" name registered by another company in March 1999.
Cheap ($10), disposable cell-phones in the works.
Interview with Rambus execs.
Silver Oxide used in future optical storage?
Ericsson's Nanocube used in WiredMobile kit. (Wireless Internet for cars.)
VHB Technologies claim their solution can stop DOS (denial of service) attacks.
The worlds smallest bipolar transistor (20nm) has been built.
Panasonic tries to revive the most hated computer component. The Floppy drive.
No one likes it, but the war continues anyway. Recordable DVD, will they ever agree on a standard?

CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup
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Moore's law predicts power consumption problems for future CPU's.
1GHz TM5800 CPU from Transmeta this year.
DDR SDRRAM's lengthy debut due to technical issues.
Domination or not, which will it be for DDR SDRAM?
ATI ships it's mobile version of Radeon.
HP has not given up it's PA RISC architecture yet.
Intel's DDR offering accelerated. "Brookdale" to be released this year?

Software Roundup
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"Scour" is back. The sequel to Scour Exchange in beta testing.
Netscape 6.01 is out. (Hopefully less buggy)
Next Windows release, code named "Whistler" will officially be called "windows XP".
Java script support in standard mailers can be mis-used.

Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other)
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ISS gets it's "Destiny" laboratory module.
NEAR touchdown on asteroid Eros.
How to build a Cyborg, step1.
Can the age of the universe be measured by studying amounts of Uranium 238 in oldest stars?