Tech Week In Review 2001.05.21 - 2001.05.27 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Ex- KGB computer guru reveals new (revolutionary?) ways of hiding Internet traffic. Vivendi Universal acquires Mp3.com - press release. Superconducting wires actually used in Detroit, US. Survey shows half of US surfers are actually buying stuff online! 40 Gbit/s kits from Lucent tested by DT. Sony exec claims Microsoft has already lost the console war? WAP usage still low. Reason? Because it's no good... Echelon, not as good as you thought? Palm gets support for memory stick on CPU level.. Cisco routers with faulty software under attack! nVidia's revenue up again. Germans add Tax to violent computer games?! Another storage media breakthrough from IBM - press release. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: Official! Transmeta licenses AMD's x86-64 instruction set & Hypertransport technology. 0.15um C3 CPU from VIA launched. (Socket 370 compatible.) Intel launches 1.7 GHz Xeon. A 0.18um 2GHz P4 will apparently be released next quarter. (Q3) Low-power G4 Plus CPU from Motorola... DDR SDRAM & chipsets are cheap, but demand is still low. Dell's Itanium server is ready but marketed as a developer platform? Ultra Low Voltage PIII's from Intel. Nintendo GameCube hardware explained... The difference between NV2A (X-box) & NV20 (GeForce 3) explained. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: 64-bit (beta) versions of Windows are rolling out.. Mac OS X 10.0.5 is out? Security hole in Windows Media Player detected.. Security hole in Windows "Hyper terminal" -client. Windows 2k SP2 + Exchange = Trouble? Discreet launches the G-Max. nVidia updates the GeForce 3 SDK. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: The asteroid/planet debate continues with the discovery of "Varuna".