2002.05.20 - 2002.05.26
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A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
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General IT
(General, Business, Financial, Misc)
RELATED STORIES:
KaZaA.com shuts down, copyright issue?
Xbox Live - M$'s billion dollar launch.
Nintendo lowers GameCube price to $149.
Toshiba shows flexible LCDīs.
A trillion USD for a fab in 2025?
Software Roundup
(General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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AOL releases Netscape 7.0.
(Mozilla 1.0 RC 2)
Win Xp Service Pack 1 information here.
Win debugging SW has a security flaw!
Customers yet to decide on M$'s Licensing.
Altnet returns as KaZaA worm is unleashed.
Altnet's big P2P plan.
Science Roundup
(Science & Astronomy)
RELATED STORIES:
Dark matter dwarf galaxies? What's next?
Spacecraft Galileo's final year.
New fundamental Amino Acid discovered.
CBI provides early universe map.
CHIP Roundup
(CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
RELATED STORIES:
AMD pricecuts, intros MPīs with faster FSB.
Hammer confirmed to launch at 2GHz (3400+)?
Upcoming 3D cards, overview.
Intel drops P4 prices again.
AMD claims GFX support for Hammer.
Tranmeta chips appear in Beowulf Cluster.
DRAM prices forced down again?
IDC re-ratess supercomputers.
Elbrus is still out there, designing CPUīs.
PPC G4īs finally reach competitive speeds?
Intelīs hyperthreading needs RDRAM?
nVidia abandons nForce 620/615 plans.
4-way PIII Xeons faster than P4 Xeons.
No mobile DX9 chip from ATI, yet.
VIA releases P4 chipset with 533MHz FSB.
nVidia will make nex MX line DX8 compatible.
Kingston ships 1066MHz RDRAM modules.
