Hitachi spins one terabyte disk drive

Hitachi's storage division has unveiled what it claims to be the world's first one terabyte 3.5 inch disk drive. The Deskstar 7K1000 will begin shipping in the first quarter of this year. ...more

HP Labs enters a digital fourth dimension

'Making history come alive' is not likely to send shivers of anticipation down the spines of many these days, but what HP Labs is up to in the Tower of London right now might make gazing glassily at dusty old relics and ruins a thing of past. HP Labs is trialling its Mediascape technologies at the Tower during the half-term week, and visitors using a GPS- and RF-enabled iPaq handheld can get an insight into the characters and stories that make up the site's history. So what? A bunch of tourists wandering around wearing headphones and listening to a virtual tour guide. ...more

Judge Penfield on trial, not Microsoft

The second day of the Microsoft anti-trust case passed with the government's representatives again being forced onto the back foot. The judges - with Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards to the fore - again questioned whether the original court had been clear in its findings over Microsoft trying to monopolise the market for browsers. ...more

Internet behind rise in ID theft

The World Wide Web is not a totally safe environment, what with malicious viruses and some of the more dubious virtual inhabitants, but now the US government has revealed a new threat. It seems that not even our identities are safe anymore and a new report from the US Treasury Department reveals that ID theft is steadily on the increase with 617 cases reported in 2000, almost double that of 267 in the previous year. Some of the main incidents in the US involved social security theft, where someone acquires another person's social security number from the database via the Internet, while other incidents of ID theft have resulted from the stealing of personal items. ...more

Adobe to release two versions of Photoshop CS3

Adobe has revealed that it will be launching two versions of Photoshop when it unveils Creative Suite 3 on 27 March. In addition to the new, long-awaited version of the image editing and manipulation software, Adobe will introduce Photoshop CS3 Extended, a completely new edition designed, in Adobe's words, for cross-media creative professionals to stretch the limits of digital imaging. Photoshop CS3 Extended includes everything in Photoshop CS3 plus a new set of tools for the integration of 3D and motion graphics, image measurement and analysis. ...more