2002.04.22 - 2002.04.28   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| "Kill them all; God will recognise his own." [Arnold Aimery, July 22:nd, 1209 A.D.] |
General IT (General, Business, Financial, Misc)
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M$ announces support for AMD's Opteron.
Hector Ruiz takes Sanders place at AMD.
Big loss for Ericsson, axing 20.000 jobs.
Bill opens the floodGates in court...
Siemens joins Symbian alliance.
NEC takes the #1 spot in supercomputing.
Micron buys troubled memory maker Hynix.
...and a new "DRAM giant" is born.
Intel partners with Symbian. (as well as M$)
STMicro believes chip-market is going up.
PNY picks up what's left of ELSA.

Software Roundup (General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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Piscel show their "killer app" file browser.
IE6 latest security hole, somewhat ironic.
IBM's "Storage Tank" is coming, after all?
AV makers trailing virus-writers.
SuSE 8.0 - the user friendly Linux?
Word 2000 & Outlook 2002 security issues.
CHIP Roundup (CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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AMD names "SledgeHammer" Opteron.
Intel names "McKinley" Itanium 2.
Intel ships 2.4GHz Xeons.
Intel's mobile P4 reaches 1.8GHz.
SiS (re)enters the GFX market with "Xabre".
ClawHammer target-price: $400?

Science Roundup (Science & Astronomy)
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Shuttleworth, the second "tourist" reaches ISS.
Universal expansion not accelerating after all?
Two colliding galaxies captured by Chandra.
Hubble double-checks the age of the universe.
Galaxy clusters helps demystify dark energy?
HST takes a closer look at a Kuiper binary.
The "cyclic universe" theory returns.