2001.11.12 - 2001.11.18
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A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| Is it just me, or was the campaign in Afghanistan just a little bit too easy? |
General IT
(General, Business, Financial, Misc)
RELATED STORIES:
Microsoft launches the
Xbox
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Nokia strikes back? With new cool phones..
Sony fears Xbox will shorten console lifecycle.
No Xbox in HongKong, China due to piracy.
Sony, AOL broadband alliance announced.
Nokia & Sony in mobile co-op.
Hyped but mystical - The MS Tablet PC.
HP about to release PC with DVD writer.
Casio to launch Transmeta/Linux laptop.
Casio to slash 3,000 jobs worldwide.
Apples iPod coming to Windows.
Software Roundup
(General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
RELATED STORIES:
Apache 2.0 has been released.
Personal firewalls not doing their job?
Apple has posted Mac OS X 10.1.1 update.
New drivers for Radeon unleash hidden power.
CHIP Roundup
(CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
RELATED STORIES:
DRAM prices rising?
AMD released 1.2 GHz Duron processor.
AMD launched 1.2 GHz mobile Athlon 4.
New mobile GFX chips from both nVidia & ATI.
nForce too expensive for retail?
Sun's Ultrasparc CPU passes the 1GHz mark.
Tom's HW shows how to overclock Athlon XPs.
SiS "suddenly" acquires a RAMBUS license.
AMD buying 200mm wafers for Hammer CPU.
Intel launches another ultra-low voltage PIII.
Delayed Transmeta chips are "coming soon".
Big Italian Duron order for AMD.
Science Roundup
(Science & Astronomy)
RELATED STORIES:
Meteorshower of a lifetime or a blurry no-go?
Molecule sized transistors are coming.
Computer sim shows possible birth of first star.
