Tech Week In Review 2001.05.28 - 2001.06.03 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: NSA's digital spy solution, "Echelon" not as good as previously thought? MSN vs AOL... again... Opera browser teams up with Symbian. Games market still growing, worth $86 bn by 2006, analysts say.. SMS evolves into EMS, but Nokia isn't interested? Toshiba presents a new type of display (OLED). Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi explains the strategy behind the GameCube console. A sneak peak at the European version of Nintendo's GameBoy Advance, set for launch June 22:nd. Chinese company Pacific Century Cyber Works buys american game company Interplay. Personal security alliance to launch OpenPGP. Security expert claims WinXP will make Internet unstable. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: nVidia to release it's chip-set that is meant to Crush the opposition. :-) 1.4 GHz Athlons (Thunderbird) & 950 MHz Durons are out. Another PIII/Celeron price cut from Intel. The Tyan dual Athlon mobo is (apparently) shipping. (MP capable Athlons are expected to be released when you read this.) ATI's Radeon 2 to ship late summer. VIA unveils the 750 MHz C3, but analysts say the $49 pricetag is too high. ATI to license it's chip technology instead of making their own boards. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: ATI announces Trueform, it's next-gen rendering technology. Apple continues to support pre-OS X releases. Mac OS 9.2 out soon. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: New observations by the Chandra X-ray laboratory shed light on Quasars. NASA to hit a comet in Deep Impact Mission.