2005.05.30 - 2005.06.05   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.

RELATED STORIES: Sun makes $4bn bid for StorageTek. Indian outsourcing worth over $20bn in 2006? EU to wait til July before deciding about M$. Scandinavian file-sharers brace for 'war'? Sharp to ship 65" LCD TV. RELATED STORIES: Deep Impact on course despite blurry camera. Andromeda galaxy bigger than we thought. NASA gets Mars lander 'Phoenix' go-ahead. Quantum crypto advancements made by NEC. Earth bacteria coul 'pollute' Mars? Russia replies to USA's space weapons plans. Mars rover Spirit clears sandtrap.

RELATED STORIES: AMD launched its X2 chips at Computex. nVidia G70 release near? Intel updates Celeron line with 64-bit EMT. Intel shows 65nm dual core Xeons. VIA announces C7-M mobile CPU. Apple X86 rumor persists. Dual core to drive PC sales? nVidia already working on SLI 2? XGI shows off 3 new graphics chips. RELATED STORIES: Skype gets video call extension. M$ makes XML the file-standard for Office. Top Level Domains to gett .xxx addition? Hacker controlled 'botnet'- warning issued. Trojan masquerades as fake pics.