Really busy day for news, here's a quick round up of many of the interesting stories around the web today:

Industry
Moore's Second Law (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/start.html?pg=2?tw=wn_tophead_9): If we don't do something about increasing battery life, we're toast.

Short supply push DRAM prices up 10% (http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2004/04/06&pages=PR&seq=202).

Intel CEO (http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;:4072ad9c:c2f675805d393d6f?type=technologyNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4762498) defends jobs shift to Asia.

Microsoft Turns On Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/), software giant's blogging project.

Dell (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4754959) Cuts Music Player Price 20 Percent to $199.

Analyst: Intel Reverse-Engineered AMD64 (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1561875,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532).

Stealth DSL price increases (http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-5185215.html?tag=st.lh) loom

Online Privacy & Security
Kazaa, eDonkey (http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5185783.html?tag=nefd.top) brace for DoS attack.

Apple's FairPlay DRM cracked (http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1081206124.html).

BT (http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5185803.html?tag=st.lh) enters copy-protection market

Tech Innovation
R420, NV40 Get Names and Birthdates at Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=2018).

Lite-On IT to launch 12x DVD Dual (http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2004/04/06&pages=A7&seq=46) this month.

NVIDIA to Boost Performance of PCI Express x16 (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets/display/20040405142953.html), may add High-Definition Audio.

woo, that means my dvd burner gets an upgrade too :D

lots of good links, lots of good reads, ty