2002.11.25 - 2002.12.01   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." [Bill Gates] |
General IT (General, Business, Financial, Misc)
RELATED STORIES:
Danish Anti Piracy Group crossed the line?
Xbox Live exceeds M$'s expectations?
European Xbox Live trial starts.
Internet more vulnerable than prev. thought?
FBI breaks massive ID theft scam.
Swedish PTS denies Vodafone delay.
3G carriers/suppliers plead to EU.
3G barely here yet, 4G on it's way anyway?
TSMC positive about 4Q?
Amnesty Int. wants to free Chinese surfers.
China has 54+ million Net users.
UK government to post UFO info on the Net?
Software Roundup (General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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Open source Java in the works.
Hackers target GPRS mobile phones?
Mozilla 1.2 available for download.
MPEG 4 license kicks in.
Sun continues Office attack on M$.
Open source BIOS developed.
Semiconductor Roundup (CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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Chip biz rising from the ashes?
AMD, Fujitsu planning Flash mem merger?
Intels confirms 800MHz FSB mobo plans.
Hammer cache sizes examined.
Hammer gains Oracle support?
SiS introduces Xabre 600 GFX chip.
Taiwan's chip biz slowly merging with China.
Next Itanium 2 (Madison) to run at 1,5GHz.
Science Roundup (Science & Astronomy)
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Latest ISS mission completed.
Black hole on the run.
Galileo spacecraft struggling.
Adjusting odds for asteroid impact.
Bio research leads to smaller electronics?
Power requirements limit quantum computing?