2002.08.19 - 2002.08.25
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A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| "What luck for rulers that men do not think" [Adolf Hitler] |
General IT
(General, Business, Financial, Misc)
RELATED STORIES:
European IT market recovering?
M$ cuts Xbox manufacturing costs.
Jumping to conclusions. Sony+Apple=true?
Samsung readying M$ "Stinger" smartphone.
China, big broadband market?
AMD wins HP business computer deal.
EU to increase "Big Brother" factor?
nVidia takes a hit from Xbox deal.
Nintendo brings the GameCube online.
Swedish gov considering move to Linux?
Dell selling "WhiteBox" PC's to dealers.
Copy-proof CD developed in Israel?
BT´s hypertext patent claim dismissed.
Software Roundup
(General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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WinXP SP1 gives "breathing room" to testers.
PGP back from the dead.
China produces it's own Linux version.
SonyEricsson adjusts P800 SW dev pricing.
How to disable W2k SP3 auto-update.
New KaZaA worm sighted.
Web browser "Opera" v7 coming soon?
Semiconductor Roundup
(CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
RELATED STORIES:
AMD launches Athlon XP 2600+ & 2400+.
Intel introduces the 2.8GHz P4.
Intel cuts P4 prices.
Micron starts shipping QDR & DDR II memory.
Athlon XP 2700+ to use 333MHz FSB?
Taiwan stands united in WCDMA alliance.
Transmeta takes the Win CE path.
Intel sued over P4 performance.
(Only in America..)
TSMC ready for 90nm production.
Science Roundup
(Science & Astronomy)
RELATED STORIES:
Voyager I, II celebrate 25:th anniversary.
BMoD create shields a'la StarTrek?
(sort of)
NASA developing means of crude mindreading?
NASA testdriving new Mars rovers.
Pluto's atmosphere is changing.
Grav. lensing sheds new light on Dark Matter.
CONTOUR spacecraft found silent.
US wants to dump nuclear waste on the Moon?
Mars
could
host microorganisms.
DARPA to fund dev of brain/machine interface.
