Tech Week In Review 2001.03.19 - 2001.03.25 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Microsoft's shows Windows Media Player running on mobile phones. Nintendo has released the long awaited Game Boy Advance handheld game console. Microsoft warns of bogus digital certificats. Optisphere sets new data transfer world record at 3.2 Tbit/s WWW2 gains on ICANNs lack of progress. Microsoft's "Hailstorm" starts a legal storm of it's own? Philips researchers may be on track to produce a cheap HDTV solution. Palm has introduced two new models of it's hand-held computer. Motorola, Ericsson & others team up on mobile phone gaming. TCP/IP security hole worse than first thought? More power blackouts in California. Digital Radio through satellites is on the move in the US. Chunks of MIR space station salvaged and up for sale on e-bay?? CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: AMD introduces 1.33GHz (Thunderbird) Athlons, and demonstrates a 1.5GHz Palomino. VIA introduces new versions of it's low cost CPU's. Apparently, Intels' new 1GHZ mobile PIII can not sustain 1GHz speeds without overheating. P4 costs Intel lot's of investment money. McKinley to support RAMBUS? Taiwanese companies creating the successor of DIMM RAM package. ALI shows it's PIII chipset with DDR SDRAM support. Chips could get integrated cooling. Samsung apparently selling lot's of RAMBUS memory. Intel's DDR strategy analyzed. New 12 MHz chip enough for MPEG4. Intel's rolls out it's (IMO extremely overpriced) Xeon CPU at 900MHz. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Apple finally ships it's eagerly awaited (and delayed) Mac OS X. Windows XP beta 2 ready to launch. It's a long shot, but PGP has another possible security flaw. Windows XP makes changes to the NTFS file system. Annoys disk utility makers. IE6 preview out soon? Computer games publisher Electronic Arts has surprisingly cancelled the much anticipated "Ultima Online 2". Discreet announces the custom 3dSMAX, "G-Max". Linux gets a much needed "big software" release. The highly acclaimed 3D software, Maya 3! Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: The big news, of course, the controlled re-entry of the MIR space station. NASA to launch 2001 Mars Odyssey probe in April. NASA puts more resources into extra terrestrial research. New findings could have impact on known history of human evolution.