Archive for July 9th, 2008

Samsung’s new YouTube friendly camcorder

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

The SC-MX20 will be available in August for $279.99.

(Credit: Samsung)

Each month seems to bring a new YouTube-centric digital camcorder and July is no exception: Samsung has announced the SC-MX20, a $279.99 model that’s the successor to the SC-MX10. It’ll arrive in stores in August

Yahoo’s Yang throws jabs at Microsoft and Icahn

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

After taking a one-two punch from investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang threw a few punches of his own in an interview in The Wall Street Journal.

Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang

(Credit: Yahoo)

Yang is facing a proxy fight with Icahn, who is seeking to unseat …

Legg Mason suggests $33 a share for Yahoo

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Yahoo’s third largest investor offered up some advice Tuesday to dissident shareholder Carl Icahn on what it may take to swing investor votes his way in a proxy fight, according to a Reuters report.

Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller had this observation to offer to Reuters, when queried …

Web meeting provider Dimdim raises $6 million

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Open-source Web conferencing provider Dimdim has raised $6 million in Series B funding, the company is set to announce on Wednesday.

The funding round, which was led by current investors Index Ventures, Nexus India Capital, and Draper Richards, will enable Dimdim to introduce enhancements to the free service and expand …

Hitachi announces second-generation terabyte drive

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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 …