Tech Week In Review 2001.02.19 - 2001.02.25 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: The music industry strikes back. Intends to detect & identify users of copyrighted material. Napster offers $1 billion to music industry but receives negative response. Rambus may be in trouble. Why PC's will have a hard time matching the Xbox for some time. Better availability of PlayStation 2 "promised" by Sony. Steve Jobs presents new Macs on MacWorld in Tokyo. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: nVidia unveils the GeForce 3. Click here for the official press release from nVidia. Pentium III gets extended life. AMD to use SOI as part of mobile strategy. Price cuts from Intel & AMD. New Compaq Pressario model adopts DDR memory. ATI releases the budget version Radeon, Radeon VE. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Astounding "Doom III" footage (actual game code running on a GeForce3) shown at MacWorld. (Note, Movie link only seems to work with Internet Explorer.) Sun is developing an open-source Peer-to-peer "language". Napster plug-in bypasses the "official Napster network". Another Outlook security hole patched. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: NASA lets NEAR continue sending data. Another suspected comet collision may have occurred 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests all galaxies must have "black holes".