Viacom Slaps Google with $1B YouTube Lawsuit

Viacom has sued Google, alleging copyright infringement from video-sharing site YouTube and seeking $1 billion in damages.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows a Digital Millennium Copyright Act request Viacom sent to Google last month related to the unauthorized posting of Viacom videos to YouTube.

At the time, Viacom demanded that Google remove over 100,000 of its clips from YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65 billion. Google said it would comply with the request.

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Cisco, Apple Settle 'IPhone' Dispute

Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. have agreed to share the "iPhone"
name, but both companies are staying tightlipped about what future
products might come from the resulting deal to collaborate on
"interoperability" between the companies' products.

Analysts said the settlement announced late Wednesday in Cisco's
trademark-infringement lawsuit could help both companies strengthen
their positions in the increasingly fierce battle to deliver video and
other applications directly to consumers' homes.
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Hitachi's World's First Terabyte Hard Drive

Listen up Digifanatics! Consumers' ability to store video, photos, music and other valued data will reach new heights as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the industry's first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Delivering superior performance and reliability, as well as capacity, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive meets the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information, and lots of it.

Hitachi's Deskstar® 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB). This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable and accessible than ever before. more...