2003.02.10 - 2003.02.16   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.

RELATED STORIES: Xbox2 - more PC than game console? Dell posts $600M profit for 4Q. Game company Sega merges with Sammy. Tech workers demoralised? Future wars: Microsoft vs Nokia. M$ on "net tech patent hunt". Apple updates Xserve range. Western Digital launches SATA hard-drive. RELATED STORIES: Motorola chooses Linux/Java path. DX 9.1 out in March? Futuremark releases 3dMark2003. Win XP security glitch. New European security initiative. New US electronic surveillance proposition. Nintendo readies game software price drop. ..and M$ follows with Xbox game price cuts. Stupid security competition. Opera strikes back in style.

RELATED STORIES: AMD officially launches Barton 3000+. AMD explains Barton PR (performance rating). Reviewers not convinced by Barton PR rating. Toshiba, Infineon announce FE-RAM. Intel reveals new mobile chip (Manitoba). Lucent shows 24Mbit/s mobile chip design. nVidia preparing nv31M for launch? Intel reveals the future of IA64. Intel's "Montecito" to have 1 bn transistors? Gordon Moore defends his famous law. IBM abandons Intel's Itanium? DDR prices fall below SDR SDRAM. RELATED STORIES: More water-ice on Mars? Columbia disaster clues. Missing matter detected? Another quantum teleportation breakthrough. NASA captures pics of the early universe. Advanced Adaptive Optics applied.