Tech Week In Review 2001.01.29 - 2001.02.04 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Napster will cost money, pay-service to start in June. Nintendo gets 3 million pre-orders for the new GameBoy Advance console. USB 2.0 products "around the corner". PlayStation games in your mobile phone? Lucent Technologies believes in holographic data storage. PalmPilot a better game-machine than SEGA Dreamcast? As expected, SEGA pulls the plug on it's latest console. Almost human? Electronic heart implants to be tested on humans. Completely transparent ferromagnetic semiconductor created at Tokyo Institute of Technology. The beginning of the plastic revolution? Plastic semiconductors may one day replace silicon. Disney to shut down it's "Go.com portal. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: First Athlon based notebooks out in March. Intel more willing to license it's Pentium4 bus to chip-set makers. NEC joins the QDR team to help develop and produce QDR SRAM. Major price cuts from Intel to stimulate demand for new CPU's. Intel releases a 500MHz SpeedStep Pentium III. A direct Transmeta competitor. Future Intel Pentium III price cuts analyzed. 2GHz P4's will be available this year? Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Fix for the dredded DNS security holes has been released. NSA attempts to create a crack-proof computer using WMware & Linux. New Gnutella release may win over Napster users. nVidia provides DirectX 8 SDK. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: One small step for a man... The worlds first space tourist may get to ISS soon. Hubble provides a preview of our own suns death. Mars Global Surveyor has now completed it's primary objective.