2004.12.20 - 2004.12.26   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.

RELATED STORIES: 2005 expected to be a turbulent IT year. Toshiba takes HD DVD promotion initiative. Nintendo ships 2M DS consoles first month. EU forces M$ to ship mediaplayer-free WinXP. ATI posts strong results. Car makers to create WLAN for cars by 2006. Mobile phones can alter DNA? Western Digital claims bigger, cooler drives. RELATED STORIES: EA buys 20% of UbiSoft. Sonic Solutions buys Roxio without Napster. Google fixes flaw in Google Desktop. Worm defaces thousands of phpBB sites.

RELATED STORIES: ATI R520 to face nv48 in 2Q 2005? AMD roadmap details for 2005 leaked. Intel to release a cheaper Grantsdale version? RELATED STORIES: Huygens probe detaches from Cassini orbiter. Young galaxies baffle astronomers. Mars volcanoes possibly still active? NASA picks Lunar Orbiter mission team.