2006.06.12 - 2006.06.18   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every weekend.
General IT (General, Business, Financial, Misc)
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PS2 still outselling Xbox 360.
Gates to "leave" Microsoft in 2008?
Pirate Bay returns home (to Sweden).
eBay touts 200 million registered users.
Google takes aim at PayPal with GBuy.

Science Roundup (Science & Astronomy)
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Next shuttle launch set to July 1st?
MIT builds "seeing device" for the blind.
Supersized fireball seen in galactic cluster.
Semiconductor Roundup (CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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nVidia to (possibly) release G80 in September?
ATI to counter nVidia's G80 with R600 in 4Q.
AMD sells its Alchemy division to Raza.

Software Roundup (General SW, Security, Virus-alerts)
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DirectX 10 will be "Vista-only".
Nokia ports Apache server to Series 60.
Google releases Google Earth for Linux.
Google Video has no size restrictions?