New and Noteworthy: Archos Video AV320 an "iPod on steroids"; Adobe tries out DRM in Photoshop; more

Archos Video AV320 an "iPod on steroids" PC Magazine writes "What is the AV320? Imagine an Apple iPod on steroids, one big enough (4.4 by 3.2 by 1.2 inches, HWD) to hold a color LCD, so you can watch video as well as play audio. The silver case contains a 20GB USB 2.0 hard drive (you can get the 40GB AV340 for $30 more), and the device, which uses a Linux operating system, can record, store, and play back MPEG-4 video, MP3 music, spoken audio, and JPEG photos. At 12 ounces and 17 cubic inches, the AV320 is just under twice as heavy as a 30GB iPod and a little more than twice as bulky. The multimedia player is both dazzling for what it does well and maddening for what it does clumsily."

To be fair, the magazine also points out "Don't fixate on that iPod-with-video mental image, because Archos is simply not in Apple's league when it comes to design." More.

Adobe tries out DRM in Photoshop Adobe Systems has added DRM technology to boxed copies of its Photoshop application in Australia, a trial that the company may extend to other products later this year. "Like Macromedia's Contribute 2.0 software and downloadable copies of Symantec's Norton Antivirus, Adobe's Photoshop 7 photo editing tool for Windows contains digital-rights management software, which Adobe has sourced from Macrovision. Some Australian versions of Adobe Collections also use the technology." More.

The danger of rental computers The Associated Press reports that for more than a year, unbeknownst to people who used Internet terminals at Kinko's stores in New York, Juju Jiang was recording what they typed, paying particular attention to their passwords. "Jiang had secretly installed, in at least 14 Kinko's copy shops, software that logs individual keystrokes. He captured more than 450 user names and passwords, and used them to access and open bank accounts online." More.

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