Microsoft is being investigated by EU data protection regulators for potential privacy issues, this time for changing the policies around Internet based services such as Hotmail and Bing. More...

Hackers have repeatedly been able to penetrate the computers which operate the Nasdaq Stock Market over the past year. Now, federal investigations have begun looking for who is responsible for it and what precisely their... More...

Hewlett-Packard's Moscow offices were raided by Russian investigators on Wednesday after a request from German authorities. German prosecutors suspect that HP executives paid €8 million ($10.9 million) to the office of the prosecutor general of... More...

The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation against Google for claims of unfair practice on search engine results. Price comparison sites like Foundem and Ciao have both submitted claims against Google for penalizing... More...

A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world. PointDev, which makes Windows... More...

After Opera’s complaint and after the European Committee for Interoperable Systems announced Microsoft did not disclose enough interoperability information for a range of its products, the European Commission has opened a new antitrust probe against... More...

South Korean business conglomerate Samsung Group is now under investigation, prosecutors announced Monday, after Kim Yong-chul, a former top Samsung legal affairs official for the conglomerate, released names of senior prosecutors he claims took bribes.... More...

European Union antitrust regulators are investigating U.S. wireless technologies company Qualcomm for possible abusive business practices, European officials said Monday. Qualcomm, the world's second-largest chipmaker for cell phones, may have violated EU competition rules by... More...

The Central Council of Jews in Germany wants the government to begin a criminal investigation into Google and YouTube for airing neo-Nazi and Nazi videos they claim violate Germany's strict laws against inciting hatred toward... More...

Dell is investigating reports that one of its laptops exploded during a conference in Osaka recently. A series of photographs of the portable pyromaniac's delight appeared online within hours of the incident, a Reuters... More...

Osaka based Capcom is currently under criminal investigated by the city's Tax Bureau for fraud. The company failed to report approximately 5.12 billion yen (US $44 million) over six years. The penalty is a stiff... More...

The European commission is starting an investigation into the pricing of Apple Computer's iTunes digital music service, after consumers complained that downloading tracks was more expensive in the UK than other parts of Europe. Officials... More...

The recent spread of GTA: San Andreas onto the internet by a piracy group has brought about a demand from Rockstar to catch the people responsible. In the efforts to keep it under control they... More...

Reuters is reporting that industry giant, Oracle, is likely to get EU approval for its hostile bid for PeopleSoft. The EU has yet to give a formal response / decision regarding the review, but sources... More...

Ubi Soft(r) Entertainment announced that the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation PC game will have the same look and feel as the show by featuring the likenesses and voice talents of the CSI cast, and a... More...

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into transactions conducted by graphics-chip maker NVidia likely focuses on how the company accounted for costs associated with its development of graphics chips for Microsoft's Xbox game... More...

I saw a link to this story at Newsgeek.net, here it goes... On Thursday, federal authorities told AP that undercover investigators surfing the Internet bought more than 900 black-market law enforcement badges, to... More...