2001.10.15 - 2001.10.21
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A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| In these days this old quote seems pretty fresh... "The only way to get along with a tiger is to let it eat you." [Konrad Adenauer] |
General IT
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Apple preps "groundbreaking" audio product.
Intel's sales & income significantly lowered.
Nokia's earnings down, but still strong.
Microsoft on "easy streak".
Biggest quarterly loss ever for Sun.
Apple's figures down for Q4.
US broadband goes mass-market in 2002.
AMD blames "PC price war" for bad figures.
AOL Europe (EOL?) reaches 5M subscribers.
AOL Time Warner revenues up..
Compaq preps iPaq with wireless networking.
Transmeta replaces itīs CEO.
IBM's PC sales down 30%..
e-bay revenues up...
RAMBUS shows surprisingly strong finances..
MS want's an end to "public hack exploits".
Hackers harvest passwords from DSL routers.
Software Roundup
(General SW, games, Virus-alerts)
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Microsoft readying it's WinXP launch.
Microsoft's DRM cracked?
IBM gets a patent for "online web page wizard".
CHIP Roundup
(CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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PPC G5 performance amazing, if true.
AMD ships 1.53GHz Athlon MP.
VIA starts making it's own main-boards.
AMD to trim Athlon XP prices on Oct 29.
AMD presents final "Hammer" specs.
ARM roadmap.
ATI A3 chipset to support Athlon XP?
1.6GHz Atlon XP before years end?
Transmeta announces Crusoe 6000 @ 1GHz.
Compaq delivers the Alpha Server ES45.
Apple's G4 PowerBooks now @ 667MHz.
IBM introduces 1GHz PPC G3 (750FX).
Intel talks about 2GHz mobile P4's.
Optical computing finally a reality in 2005?
SUN introduces the UltraSPARC IIIi.
HP shows details about PA RISC 8800.
Intel unveils future Xeons.
Intel's server roadmap revisited - again.
VIA plans a P4 "clone" due in 2003/4.
Science Roundup
(Science & Astronomy)
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2001 Mars Odyssey preps for final approach.
More planets with circular orbits discovered..
NASA's Dan Goldin to resign in November.
Bell Labs talks molecular sized computing.
IBM to create self-healing nteworks?
