2002.01.28 - 2002.02.03   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." [Josh Billings] |
General IT (General, Business, Financial, Misc)
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The Napster case - alive and kicking.
KazAa.com in "Napster-like" trouble.
Micron & Hynix end acquisition talks.
IBM announced next CEO. (To no ones surprise).
The Ericsson T65 issue.
Apple presents it's new PowerMac.
Palm launches it's latest handheld, the i705.
Compaq presents new "QuickBlade" servers.
Matsushita/Toshiba bring the internet kitchen.
MS picks up award for nVidia's & Intel's work.
Most hackers are from US.
Russian hacker faces 15 years in jail.
Palm heandhelds ahead of PocketPC & Epoc.

Software Roundup (General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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Win XP successor has database at it's core.
Morpheus is "safe".
Cookie stealing possible on older Netscape.
Time to patch those old Cisco switches.
Big security patch for Win2k out.
CHIP Roundup (CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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AMD ships faster mobile Durons.
Faster Mobile Athlon 4 from AMD.
AMD in "Singapore Fab-deal" with UMC.
PowerPC 7455 (G4+) finally reaches 1GHz.
TSMC first to produce 0.10um (100nm) chips.
AMD to buy MIPS startup "Alchemy"?
Intel cuts CPU prices.
Toshiba joins the ARM licensees.
Hynix holds back on DRAM supplies.
Project Purple "super-cluster" to run Linux?
Matsushita DRAM lawsuit against Samsung.

Science Roundup (Science & Astronomy)
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NASA to return to nuclear drives?
Telescope on ISS available through Internet?
Asteroid hunters get serious.
Titan re-visited.
NASA launches new "solar-imager" spacecraft.