2002.08.05 - 2002.08.11
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A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." [Murphy's Law] |
General IT
(General, Business, Financial, Misc)
RELATED STORIES:
Worldcom accounting scandal continues.
Orange seeks 3G delays in Sweden.
Another Xbox mod chip appears.
Qwest's fate is in the hands of bankers.
IBM to re-shape the IT biz?
MMS, success or failure?
Tesco offers wireless shopping.
Yahoo! reopens online auctions.
Yahoo! investing in Sonera´s Zed portal.
Software Roundup
(General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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M$ to expose more Windows source code.
Amiga OS returns.
Win32 Messaging broken beyond repair?
M$ settles with FTC over Passport trouble.
New security holes found in M$ CM Server.
Private Surfing 2.0 from Anonymizer.
Morpheus in McAfee.com deal.
Database security breaches increasing?
OECD refines network security protocol.
CHIP Roundup
(CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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IBM brings Power4 to the desktop?
ATI´s R300 goes on sale on Aug 19:th.
AMD claims flash memory breakthrough?
Sun joins the anti-Itanium club?
First Hammer to get 3400+ PR?
VIA targets Socket 478 market.
Samsung to push for DDR400 in 4Q?
Next Thoroughbred in October? (2400+)
Parhelia hits the streets in October?
SiS lays out chip-set strategy.
Samsung revives the old Alpha processor?
GPU replaces CPU in rendering.
Science Roundup
(Science & Astronomy)
RELATED STORIES:
Stardust spaceprobe collects cosmic dust.
Colliding black holes calculated.
NASA goes "old-school" on NGRL Vehicle.
New tech may lead to ultra-fast memory.
More evidence for (ancient) life on Mars?
Quantum cooling, recently patented tech.
