Tech Week In Review
2001.04.02 - 2001.04.08
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday.

General IT
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MTV to start selling MP3 songs online.
The RAMBUS story continues. RAMBUS apparently did play it unfair.
Napster downloads increase again.
The Amiga makes a comeback on the Sharp Linux PDA.
The X-box story told by it's "inventor". (interview with Seamus Blackley)
AMD reaffirms it's commitment to Linux.
Microsoft lacks faith in Bluetooth?
Europe's own GPS satellite network gets a kick start.
Discover Cancer drugs the "SETI" way on your own computer.

CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup
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Official release date for the 1.7GHz P4 is April 23:rd (2001) :-)
AMD's Duron up another 50MHz to 900MHz.
Abit readying "nVidia crush" -based mother-boards.
Intel's 300mm, 0,13um plant is producing functional processors.
nVidia apparently "bad-mouthing" competitors.
Samsung to deliver QDR SRAM in Q4 2001. (QDR=Quad Data Rate)
PC2100 DDR SDRAm "selling like hot-cakes".
nVidia soon to start production of X-box chips.

Software Roundup
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Linus Thorvalds, creator of Linux, calls MacOS X, "a piece of crap".
Mac OS X to be "patched" within 10 days.
The software we all knew would come one day, is here? "The software engineer replacement software."
Buggy IE patch from Microsoft.

Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other)
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Mars probe "Odyssey" on it's way to the Red Planet.
Astronomers discover 11 more Extrasolar planets.
Large array of radio telescopes to be built in the high Andes.
Astronomers observe "free floating" planets in the Orion nebula.