Tech Week In Review 2001.04.23 - 2001.04.29 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Sony & Ericsson join forces on mobile phone market. New DSL variation called "SHDDSL" offers 4.6Mbit in both directions. (Symmetrical Hight Density Digital Subsriber Line) Sun launches it's peer-to-peer technology, "Jxta". Bill Gates, THE wealthiest man after all. If Nintendo's GameCube fails to impress the E3 audience, it might be cancelled. Amazon loses less money. LCD monitor price crash. The neverending RAMBUS patent story continues... NIPC is Americas new cyber-police. (Not really a "News" item) IBM reaches another milestone in nano-scale production. FBI fears cyber-attacks from Chinese hackers. IBM buys Informix (Database business) for $1bn. A legal way for hackers to make money. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: nVidia lowers chip prices. AMD prepares the new mobile Athlon, "Palomino" in co-operation with nVidia. More Intel price cuts. Now it's the mobiles... AXIA Athlons available online. (For overclockers) Intel adjust 2GHz release date? Intel acquires 3 optical comm companies. No humans will be required in future fabs. That future is in 3 years. Electronic paper samples look encouraging. AMD announces "Hammer" delay. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: NT4, Servicepack 7 exists only in space? :-) Microsoft sneaks in (test?) product activation code into current software (such as Win2k)?? Chinese Academy of Science will help Intel optimize it's Itanium compilers. Web browsers delayed.. (Will anyone notice?) Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: ISS (International Space Station) computers malfunction. Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, visits ISS. ISS gets a new (Canadian) robotic arm.