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ADS Technologies has begun shipping USB Instant Video, a USB video capture device. The US$79 device (the press release notes an “under $70” price tag, which is contradicted by ADS’ online store) comes bundled with MovieWorks LE.

Excite@home, the leading provider of cable Internet service in North America, has reported a net loss of US$346.3 million for its second quarter, as revenue declined 7 percent to $138.6 million. The company also pushed back its profitability target (before interest, taxes, depreciations, and amortization) to the fourth quarter instead of the third quarter, and announced that it will need more cash before the year’s end to stay afloat.

McAfee has posted Virex 7.0b3 for Mac OS X, as noted by VersionTracker, a new public beta of the anti-virus software.

Apple is one of nine leading tech companies that have formed the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, a group that supports the future development and adoption of AMD’s HyperTransport technology. HyperTransport technology is similar in functionality to a PCI bus, but can transfer data at up to 6.4GB/sec, some 50 times faster than PCI. “HyperTransport represents a great technology with exciting future potential,” said Apple senior VP of Hardware Engineering Jon Rubinstein.

Apple’s Web Sharing Update 1.0 for Mac OS X “delivers enhancements and security improvements to Apache, including support for the case-insensitive Mac OS Extended file system (HFS+), and the latest version of OpenSSH.” The software is also available from the Software Update control panel.