EU cautions Google over Street View photos

From CNET News.com: In a letter sent to the search giant this week, the European Union's privacy watchdog told Google that it should warn towns and cities before it snaps photos for its online Street View maps. The EU also told the company that it should cut the time it keeps the...

JMicron Lives; Corsair Announces New Mainstream SSDs

From DailyTech: Solid state drives (SSDs) have come a long way in the past year. Long gone are the early days when SSDs like OCZ's Core Series were plagued with stuttering problems in every day usage scenarios courtesy of the JMicron JMF602 controller. Now we have SSD controllers...

Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Update Now Live

From Tom's Hardware: Earlier this month, we detailed that Microsoft was prepping a Windows 7 Update that would improve Windows Activation Technologies to detect more than 70 known and potentially dangerous activation exploits.

Those paying attention to their Windows Update will see...

IBM: Software vulnerabilities fell in 2009, but other risks abound

From InfoWorld: The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.

IBM's X-Force research and development team studies...

No Explicit Category for iPhone Apps After All?

From PC World: Looks like there won't be any 'Explicit' category for apps in Apple's App Store after all, as the Cupertino company reportedly removed the option from the App Store submission software.

"It's not going to happen anytime soon," an Apple representative said, according...

Palm's revenue to be 'well below' forecasts

From CNET News.com: Palm's smartphone recovery took a big hit Thursday as the company sharply cut its outlook for the third quarter and fiscal 2010 because "driving broad consumer adoption of Palm products is taking longer than we anticipated."

How ugly is it? Palm said its third...

With legal nod, Microsoft ambushes Waledac botnet

From CNET News.com: Microsoft is intent on eliminating the Waledac botnet and is using the legal system to help.

Tim Cranton, Microsoft's associate general counsel, wrote Thursday on the company's blog that Microsoft has been shutting down Waledac by working with technology partners...

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