Apple has been hit with a $118,000 fine for illegally distributing copyrighted material in China. Judge Feng Gang ruled that Apple showed negligence in ensuring uploaded content was legal. More...

German regulators have fined Google €145,000 ($189,230) over the company's previous practice of collecting data via the WiFi antennas for Google's Street View cars. More...

Nicholas Economides, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, called this week's EU fine against Microsoft "excessive" for what appears to be a mere mistake on Microsoft's part More...

A new rumor is stating that Google and Opera were the ones who tipped off the EU about the absence of the browser ballot screen after the rollout of SP1 to Windows 7 users in the EU. More...

After investigation the EU has imposed a record breaking fine on 5 electronics companies including Philips, LG and Samsung that worked together to fix prices and share TV and computer monitor markets. More...

A funny story has emerged that claimed Samsung paid Apple their $1.05 billion fine entirely in five-cent coins, spanning 30 truck loads, simply to burden their smartphone rival. Too bad it's a hoax. More...

The Federal Trade Commission has confirmed it will fine Google $22.5 million due to the company bypassing the privacy settings of Apple's Safari web browser. More...

A European Union court today upheld a fine against Microsoft for roughly $1 billion. The fine was slightly lowered, however, from 899 million Euros ($1.1 billion) to 860 million Euros ($1.07 billion). More...

Apple has been issued a $2.29mm dollar fine by a judge in Australia over the company's claims that its most recent iPad had "4G" speeds when in fact those speeds can't be accessed in that country. More...

After Microsoft’s record 889-million euro fine in 2008 for antitrust issues, the software giant has appealed against the enormous sum of money, claiming it was unnecessary in an EU court on Tuesday. The ~US$1.3 billion... More...

Facebook has been awarded damages of $711 million against Sanford Wallace, who spammed the social network with fake messages. Wallace was sued in February, alongside Adam Arzoomanian, for obtaining login details for accounts and using... More...

US regulators are to crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose money or gifts received from companies when reviewing their products. In the new policy from the Federal Trade Commission, offending bloggers could eventually... More...

The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today. The news first surfaced from founder Peter Sunde who used Twitter to break... More...

Windows Mobile Gmail fans are getting antsy about a known glitch in the mobile e-mail offering that hasn't been fixed by Google in about a month. In October, Google began supporting IMAP (Internet Message Access... More...

Panellists at a trade forum criticised the US government for going back on commitments made to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in regards to internet gaming. The forum believes that the US could be liable... More...

In a development which Alcatel-Lucent calls "shocking and disturbing" and which Microsoft calls a "victory for consumers," a federal judge in the San Diego District Court has overturned a jury's decision which had ruled that... More...

Software giant Microsoft has filed an appeal against a 280.5 million euro ($356.4 million) fine the European Commission imposed in July, holding it defied a 2004 antitrust ruling. "As Microsoft said in July, we would... More...

The U.S. government sought to influence the European Commission over Microsoft's antitrust case, according to Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Kroes said the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, had asked her to be "nicer" to Microsoft... More...

A Brussels court has ordered internet giant Google to pay 1 million euro a day if it does not remove all news articles and pictures from French and German language newspapers on its news site,... More...

Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. The software giant was hit by the fine following a long-running dispute between the US... More...

The European Commission plans to raise the ceiling of future fines on Microsoft to 3 million euros ($3.8 million) a day if the company continues to defy an antitrust decision, a diplomatic source said on... More...

Will Microsoft soon be charged $2.5 million a day for allegedly flouting the European Union's demand to provide documentation about Windows' inner workings? Microsoft officials are preparing for that scenario, according to an e-mail update... More...

Virgin France has been slapped with a €600,000 fine for illegally downloading Madonna's Hung Up for resale on its site - in the process ignoring an "exclusive deal reached by Warner Music France with France... More...

Samsung, the world's largest memory chip manufacturer, has pleaded guilty to price fixing and agreed to pay a $300 million fine, US officials announced today. The fine is the second largest antitrust settlement and... More...

Microsoft Corp. now has only weeks left until the European Commission decides whether to take steps toward fining it up to $5 million a day, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. "Within a matter of... More...

Although the European Commission's statements are diplomatic to the point of opacity, there's no mistaking what it thinks of the latest turn in the Microsoft antitrust saga. The Commission doesn't think Microsoft's trying hard enough,... More...

Microsoft has paid the US$600 million fine handed down by the European Commission in its antitrust ruling against the company. Representatives of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant confirmed last Friday that Microsoft deposited the payment... More...

Mario Monti, the European Union's competition commissioner, is vigorously defending his handling of the antitrust case against Microsoft, amid criticism over the size of the fine and for treading on U.S. regulators' toes. ... More...

European Union states on Monday backed a proposal to fine Microsoft Corp. a record 497 million euros ($613.5 million) for abusing its dominance of PC operating systems, an EU member state source said. "It is... More...

Microsoft is to embark on a last-ditch charm offensive over the coming weeks to avoid paying a multibillion-dollar fine to the European Commission, which is preparing to make a ruling on its long-running antitrust investigation... More...

BRUSSELS--The European Commission said on Wednesday it intended to fine Microsoft for what it called continuing abuses of its dominant market position and force it to change the way it distributes its Media Player software.... More...

A man found guilty of selling mod chips on his website in breach of the draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been sentenced to five months imprisonment and a $28,500 fine. David Rocci,... More...

With the first wave of fanatical beta testers already installed with a fresh Windows 2000 Gold code and then the RC 3.140 Service Pack 3 build over that, the newer features that this build brought... More...

A personal thank you goes out to terminaldogma who posted a great tip in our forums on how you can improve the "ClearType" fonts in Windows XP! Despite what everyone believes or is... More...

European antitrust enforcers may seek a massive fine from Microsoft and demand that it drop some features from its dominant Windows software, according to a published report citing a confidential European Commission document outlining its... More...