2002.07.29 - 2002.08.04   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" [Gandhi] |
General IT (General, Business, Financial, Misc)
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FBI takes WorldCom execs to court.
Chinese PC market grows rapidly.
Bad 2Q for nVidia.
Qwest fighting for survival.
DVD to "save" PC biz?
Adobe lowers 3Q expectations.
M$ pleased with UK gov Open Source policy?
Adobe & Macromedia make peace.

Software Roundup (General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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Win2k, SP3 is now available.
M$ completes transition to Licensing 6.0.
Win XP SP1 registration clear-up.
Symantec merges security products.
IBM readies DB2 for AMD's 64-bit Opteron.
Apple releases it's own OGL shader language.
IBM's DB2 v8.0 targets Oracle.
Java script security flaw discovered.
CHIP Roundup (CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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Thorvalds hopes Intel will adopt x86-64?
AMD, Infineon & UMC forge alliance.
AMD, Fujitsu & Saifun in FLASH joint venture.
Leaked Intel chipset roadmap.
China produces it's own Win compatible CPU.
Asustek, king of mobos?
Intel speeds up transition to 533MHz FSB?
Koreans believe in DRAM recovery.
nVIdia cuts TSMC orders.
AMD lowers prices, again?
AMD considers 333FSB for XP's.
SIS lunches RDRAM chipset for P4.

Science Roundup (Science & Astronomy)
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NASA to send robot to far side of the Moon.
NASA to resume Shuttle flights.
Chandra detects "invisible web".
Australian ScramJet test successful.
Merging Black Holes in galactic collisons?
Amateur asteroid hunters get funding.