Tech Week In Review
2001.03.26 - 2001.04.01
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday.

General IT
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Napster extends it's filters.
Napster wants fans to march in Washington DC.
Iridium back in business.
RIAA takes aim at Gnutella.
IBM has the quietest HardDrives for mobiles?
X-box to battle PlayStation 2 online.
Corel's finances getting better, but not "good".
Maxtor buys HD business from Quantum.
Cisco & Microsoft cooperate on wireless security.
Amsterdam police drive mobile-phone thieves mad by sending tons of SMS?

CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup
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1.7GHz P4 out "real soon".
AMD's latest mobile roadmap.
ATI buys "Professional 3DGFX card" -maker FireGL.
New mobile Intel chip under development.
DRAM prices on their way up again?
Microsoft's Tablet PC to use Transmeta CPU?
AMD/Intel price/Speed war moves to the mobile sector?
P4 DDR chipset from VIA regardless of license?
VIA delivers it's new 733MHz VIA C3 CPU.
Rumours confirmed, AMD to use IBM's SOI tech for it's "Hammer" line.
NASA's FPGA supercomputer...?
Mitsubishi concentrates on low power SDRAM.

Software Roundup
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Speculations about open source BeOS.
SEGA will make games for the X-Box.
Not surprisingly, Win XP may require hardware upgrades.
First(?) cross-platform virus appears. (Affects Win & Linux)
(Yet) Antoher IE security hole discovered.

Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other)
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Solar storm may disrupt communication on earth.