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Hitachi announces second-generation terabyte drive

Matthew Elliott — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:01:00 GMT

The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B spreads 1TB of capacity over only three platters.

(Credit: Hitachi)

Hitachi was first to hit the terabyte mark when it announced the 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive in January 2007. Fast forward a year and a half, and the company is back with not a ...

Bank of America may finally embrace Firefox

Steven Musil — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:30:00 GMT

The largest bank in the United States has officially ignored the second most popular Web browser--until recently.

A tipster for Networkworld.com pointed out recently that Bank of America's Web site did not list the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox as a "supported browser," even though Firefox now commands almost ...

Video surveillance firm gets $10 million in VC funding

Elinor Mills — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT

Video surveillance firm VideoIQ is set to announce on Wednesday morning a $10 million Series B funding round.

Lehman Brothers Venture Partners is leading the round, and current investors Matrix Partners and Atlas Venture are participating.

The funding will be used to help VideoIQ expand to new markets and continue ...

DreamWorks executive on why it switched from AMD to Intel

Brooke Crothers — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:50:00 GMT

Intel has upstaged Advanced Micro Devices at DreamWorks Animation. The movie studio has decided to drop AMD and go with processors from Intel, citing better performance and a more promising roadmap.

DreamWorks specifically mentioned Intel's upcoming Nehalem processor and Larrabee graphics chip as reasons for the switch.

Intel and ...

Steady growth for Twitter, despite hiccups

Desiree Everts — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Fans of microblogging service Twitter are apparently impervious to repeated outages and technical problems--and their enthusiasm is spreading.

Research firm Hitwise on Tuesday reported that traffic to the Twitter site increased 500 percent the week ending July 5, 2008, compared with the same period last year. That's a significant ...

Select Flickr photos to sell via Getty license

Josh Lowensohn — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Flickr on Tuesday entered a partnership with Getty Images to offer its users a way to potentially make money off their photography.

The Yahoo-owned photo-hosting community will be a new resource for Getty, which can now contact Flickr members directly through the site and ask them if they want to ...

Daily Debrief: For Microsoft, one step forward, two steps back

Kara Tsuboi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:15:00 GMT

Tuesday brought a mixed bag of Microsoft news. On the Daily Debrief, I sit down with CNET News senior writer Ina Fried to discuss the good, the bad, and the downright embarrassing.

Let's ...

Gmail now blocking fake eBay, PayPal e-mails

Elinor Mills — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:03:00 GMT

Google on Tuesday said it is now using an e-mail authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.

The technology, DomainKeys, uses cryptography to verify the domain of the sender of an e-mail. It allows ...

Xbox 360 price cut coming July 13

David Carnoy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:52:00 GMT

The Xbox 360 Pro (aka Premium) will now cost $50 less.

(Credit: Microsoft)

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about rumors that Microsoft was planning to chop the Xbox 360's price in July. Well, that price cut was all but confirmed today by Kotaku.

After posting leaked photos

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Carnival atmosphere in security

Jon Oltsik — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:04:00 GMT

Summertime is the season for traveling circuses and local fairs, so I shouldn't be surprised that this carnival atmosphere has spread to security. A company named Permanent Privacy just announced a $1 million prize to the person who can crack its algorithm and uncover the underlying encryption keys.

Now ...