Tech Week In Review 2001.06.26 - 2001.07.01 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Microsoft wins in court. (The Anti-trust trial) Sony cuts PlayStation2 prices in Japan. Broadband via Satellite, Dutch company claims... Strange predictions of the game console market in 2005 made by ELSPA. Palm donates $2 million worth of Palm Pilots to schools. TFT prices down to £299. Maxtor initiative for larger HardDrives. One of two Usenet creators died. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: Compaq sells Alpha to Intel! Intel confirms 1.8 GHz P4 in July. (Preliminary) DDR II specs presented. Apple wants to buy PowerPC from Motorola? 1,4 GHz MP Athlons in August. Intels mobile roadmap re-visited. Transmeta sued for low performing CPUs? Acer Lab's P4 chipset gets USB2 support. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: The MP3 Pro file-format proves popular. Discreet updates 3DSMAX to version 4.2 Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: Change of plans for the Cassini "Saturn" probe.. NASA launches "MAP" to observe the secrets of Big Bang.