2004.09.20 - 2004.09.26   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.

RELATED STORIES: Nintendo to launch Gameboy DS in November. Another survey claims mobile phones are safe. Adobe posts better than expected results. Nokia abandons ring-tones market. EFF asks US court to dismiss "vague" patents. Hynix faces accounting fraud fines. IT Security firms TruSecure & Betrusted merge. Mobile phones on planes allowed from 2006? New JVC cam blurs line between movie/still. RELATED STORIES: M$ issues new patch for WinXp SP2. Google creating it's own web-browser? M$ extends its attack on spammers. Nokia to introduce content filtering. M$ adjusts volume licensing rules. P-Cube hunts down "Zombie-PCs". "Sasser-kid" offered security job. M$ shows Office source code to governments. Adobe starts Acrobat 7.0 beta test.

RELATED STORIES: HP dumps the Itanium chip from server line-up. VIA announces PCI-E chip-set for Athlon 64. Intel's latest desktop roadmap. AMD releases 90nm mobile Athlon 64 3000+. AMD & IBM extend chip co-op deal to 2008. Samsung shows off its latest memory tech. RELATED STORIES: New methane discovery on Mars. Mars rover mission extended 6 more months. NASA puts $400M into nuclear space probe. Hubble reveals early universe - again. ISS still troubled by failing oxygen generator. New, powerful telescope awaits unveiling. Astronomers get a glimpse of a neutron star. ESA studies water in Zero-G (space). Scientists detect colliding galactic clusters. SpaceDev announces piloted "spaceship".