2002.12.09 - 2002.12.15
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A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
| "History never looks like history when you are living through it." [John W. Gardner] |
General IT
(General, Business, Financial, Misc)
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Nokia 4Q warning sinks Telecom stocks.
Growing sales for TSMC.
LCD market growing, fast.
Small step for mankind, giant leap for Robots.
Microsoft's biggest challenge: Linux?
Google debuts "shopping searchengine".
HP sued over VLIW tech (used in Itanium).
Anti-spammers' great sense of irony.
Software Roundup
(General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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Direct X 9.0 out on December 19th?
This week's M$ security patches.
M$ Office 11 lands in .NET territory.
M$ "Longhorn" early alpha previewed.
Sun OKs open source Java EE.
IBM finally kills off OS2?
Or does it?
VIA renames & updates it's chipset drivers.
M$ prepared to share Windowns source code?
Semiconductor Roundup
(CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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ATI already preparing the R350?
AMD releases the Athlon MP 2400+.
New kind of CPU holds 430 cores on 1 die.
Intel's P4 & chipset overview for 2003.
IBM demonstrates nanoscale transistor.
Underclocked Hammer chip benchmarked.
NEC to make Gamecube sucessor chips.
Andy Groves sees end of Moore's law.
AMD to show off itīs latest achievments.
Athlon MP 2600+ expected in January 2003.
Athlon MP 2600+ to have 333MHz FSB?
Infineon makes MEM deal with Chinese firm.
IBM vs Intel silicon fight at 90nm.
Science Roundup
(Science & Astronomy)
RELATED STORIES:
Neutrinos proven to have mass.
Upcoming Mars missions revealed.
Another Ariane 5 blows up.
Infrared view of Hubble DeepField.
Signs of liquid water on Mars? Or not?
New theory explains Magnetic instability?
Planetary systems not so rare after all?
Hubble shoots multiple galactic colissions.
