Tech Week In Review 2001.02.26 - 2001.03.04 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Napster to install "copyright" filter. If Napster shuts down, Bartelsmanns "Snoopstar" might enter the stage. US Robotics still believes there's life left in dial-up modems. Project Pandango, the next generation searchengine? The RAMBUS lawsuit saga continues... FTC says Microsoft's advertising are deceptive. Microsoft split-up looking less likely.  Story update. Cray & NEC start partnership. Byte.com reveals the dark side of P2P. Intergraph victorious in patent-battle with Intel? CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: Intel is working on the successors to PCI & AGP. Intel has finished the design of McKinley, the follow up the still unreleased 64-bit Itanium CPU. Kentron about to demo it's QBM technology. (Quad Band Memory (= 2x DDR)) Rumour or truth? Intel to reveal a multi-threading P4 this summer? Micron (& Intel) have developed a DDR chip-set for Pentium III. Intel wants 400MHz DDR SDRAM. (and who doesn't? :) Intel ditches 100MHz bus for PIII. Volume production of the "Flipper" chip is underway. (The "flipper" chip will be used in Nintedo's "Gamecube" console.) Intel to support cheaper Rambus memory next year. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: P2P Gnutella gets it's first (but certainly not last) virus. A new kind of program, dubbed "HAL" could learn how to speak - the human way. New "LoveLetter" type of virus. "Black & White", a strong candidate for the "Game of the year" title is finally finished. A follow-up to Microsoft's online game Asheron's Call has been announced. A new kind of program, dubbed "HAL" could learn how to speak - the human way. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: Computers will make private flying safer and easier than driving. The end of the successful NEAR mission is here? Astronomers are starting to discover moons orbiting asteroids. NASA budget cuts end the X-33 spaceshuttle project.