From DailyTech: Google set privacy concerns ablaze last week when CEO Eric Schmidt sated "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." The comments quickly rankled many users and privacy advocates.

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From PC World: Seagate has blazed yet another new trail for laptop storage devices, creating the thinnest 2.5-inch drive yet. The Momentus Thin drive comes in at a slender 7mm and could herald the advent of a new era of thin laptops that are less expensive.

Seagate has developed the...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft says it has a fix for a bug that was keeping Office 2003 users from being able to access some rights-managed files.

The bug, which cropped up on Friday, meant that users of Office 2003 were unable to access files protected using Microsoft's rights...

From InfoWorld: Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database are paper thin, and even if they were confirmed they wouldn't safeguard MySQL's future, said Florian Mueller, an...

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard hopes to do the same thing with storage that it did with servers, leveraging years of system-building experience and economies of scale, by blurring the distinction between servers and storage.

The company envisions platforms based on industry-standard...

From PC World: Apple has already defined the gold standard for app stores, but that doesn't mean it is sitting idly by. Apple has raised the bar for app stores even higher with new changes that make it easier for developers to market their apps, and for customers to learn about the...

From CNET News.com: Amazon on Monday rolled out spot pricing for cloud computing so customers can buy capacity at any price on the open market.

The concept is an interesting one since Amazon Web Services is making computing capacity available on the market just like any other...

From CNET News.com: The world's first commercial LTE mobile broadband services went live in Oslo and Stockholm on Monday, through the Scandinavian operator TeliaSonera.

Offering theoretical maximum speeds of 100Mbps and real-world speeds of 20Mbp to 80Mbps, the services are about 10...

From DailyTech: Sun Microsystems and Oracle entered into an agreement where former would be purchased by latter. The deal is not yet complete and while it was approved by the U.S. in August, the purchase was met with objections when it hit the European Commission for approval.

The...

From DailyTech: When Google announced that it was getting into the phone business, many expected that it was going to release the long rumored "GPhone", a high-tech smart phone akin to the iPhone. The company surprised everyone when it instead released a smart phone operating system...