Tech Week In Review
2001.04.09 - 2001.04.15
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday.

General IT
RELATED STORIES:
Rambus may have a tough week coming up...
Napster in trouble again. What else is new?
Motorola's first Q1 loss in 15 years.
Microsoft promoting WinXP by telling you how bad their earlier stuff was?
Microsoft tries to promote it own audio file format through sabotage of MP3 quality under Win XP?
The Linux based X-Box competitor "Indrema" is no more.
First Yahoo! announced they will start selling pornography...
    ...then they changed their mind...
Sprint & Lucent demo a 3G cell-phone that transmits data at 2,4 Mbit/s
DigiScents lost it's funding. Will they return?

CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup
RELATED STORIES:
Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) lithography early prototype shown. (This will eventually allow 10nm "wires".)
Motorola shows it's 0.13um process.
Intel P4 pricecuts underway...
Roumour has it Motorola wants to accelerate the release of it's G5 CPU.
Intel starts chipset pricewar to make Intel solutions cheaper than AMD's?
Sony to spin-off it's Emotion Engine (PS2) CPU development.
Data corruption bug found in VIAs 686B Southbridge (part of the KT133A chipset). Which I happen to have :-(
800MHz Mobile Duron from AMD.
Strange case of underclocking from AMD?
Fujitsu-Siemens to start selling AMD based computers.

Software Roundup
RELATED STORIES:
No support for USB 2.0 in Win XP.
Fears of the popular game "Black & White" being spyware hit the net.
Apache 2.0 in beta testing...
Yet another Internet Explorer security hole discovered.

Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other)
RELATED STORIES:
Russia says OK to Dennis Tito, the worlds first "space tourist".
Star Trek-like "Replicators" being developed?