2002.05.13 - 2002.05.19
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A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| The force is strong with George Lucas & ILM.
Star Wars: Episode II
is an amazing visual feast. |
General IT
(General, Business, Financial, Misc)
RELATED STORIES:
Both PS2 & Xbox now at $199 in US.
New Xbox in September?
Music CD protection cracked with pen & tape?
Siemens goes Symbian.
Bartelsmann pays $8M for Napster leftovers.
HP spells out the big changes.
Dell unaffected by the new HP?
Cisco and the hunt for fault resilient networks.
FTC takes a look at Rambus.
Realnames.com closes down.
Lycos charges for e-mail service.
Software Roundup
(General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
RELATED STORIES:
Open source would help Windows security.
Cryptographer fools finger-print recognition.
Another major security-patch for IE. (Again!)
...but several IE security holes remain.
M$ brings insecurity to your phone.
Hoax virus alert could cripple Win JAVA.
Opera 6.0 supports Symbian "Magpie" tech.
CHIP Roundup
(CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
RELATED STORIES:
Matrox launches it's
Parhelia 512
GPU.
Celeron prices adjusted, P4 Celeron ready.
VIA announces 3 Hammer chipsets.
VIA promotes it's new DDR333 P4 mobo.
Memory prices low and on the move.
nVidia, ATI to show off their latest stuff.
Hints of the importance of nVidia's next chip.
NEC spins-off chip biz.
SiS roadmap reveals Hammer chipset & more.
Apple launches it's own servers.
Dual Opteron running Windows.net -demo.
Science Roundup
(Science & Astronomy)
RELATED STORIES:
11 new tiny Jupiter moons discovered.
Lithium discovery regains Big Bang credibility.
Spintronics made possible by new materials?
Planning science for the next decade.
