Tech Week In Review 2001.06.04 - 2001.06.10 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Napster deal with major players from the music industry is close... Napster no longer "what it used to be". New version of the the mp3 fileformat, MP3 Pro introduced... Memory maker Infineon lets RAMBUS keep it's SDRAM patents. Mirosoft's CEO Ballmer wants deeper relationship with Nokia. Sun invests in crash-proof databases. EU will make PC vendors pay... for recycling. MS restricts PocketPC licensing. Compacq backs out of PC price war? iMac 2001 RUMOURS floating around on the web. Alcatel gets rid of it's ADSL modem division. 3Com stops producing ADSL & Cable modems. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: IBM has made another breakthrough that will makes chips faster. AMD to sample 64-bit Hammer by the end of 2001. AMD MP Athlons released as planned, but where are the "big name" partners? VIA releases it's P4 chip-set dispite lacking Intel's approval? Intel has nothing nice to say about VIA's chipset. Intel samples 0.13um P4. Intel's "Brookdale" (845) chipset due in 4 months? No nVidia "nForce" chipsets for Intel CPU's for a while yet. Acer to manufacture ATI boards. nVidias "nForce" chipset to cost $50. VIA's 0.13um C3 chip finds it's way to system builders. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: WinXP close to release candidate 1. MS introduces "Smart Tags". MS patches Exchange 2000 bug. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: NASA's X43A Scramjet aircraft crashes on it's first test flight. Moller International are testing thier "SkyCar". Pluto missions make a comeback? Asteroid belt found in another star system. Astronomers present a new map of the "nearby" universe. Chandra X-ray observatory sees large amounts of Black Holes.