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Internet auction fraud accounts for close to half of all the complaints made to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, according to a report released Friday. Of the 207,492 complaint submissions made to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2006, Internet auction fraud accounted for 45 percent,...

In a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission was accused of overstepping its authority in its recent actions regarding the cable TV industry. At the end of 2006, the FCC -- led by Commissioner Kevin Martin -- approved in a 3-2 vote new video franchising rul...

In a modern-day continuation of an ages-old battle, the Turkish government has banned YouTube in Turkey because of offensive content posted by a Greek contributor. Greeks and Turks have been battling on Google's video-sharing site in recent weeks, trading insults in their video posts. When a Greek u...

When Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin on Tuesday accused Google of taking a "cavalier approach to copyright" and of using its Book Search project to make money off other people's copyrighted creations, he ignited a fiery debate over the ethics of information access, the meaning of copyright and the r...

Google's Book Search project "systematically violates copyright" and deprives content owners of the opportunity to make money from their creations, according to a top Microsoft attorney. In a prepared speech to be given Tuesday to the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers in New Y...

The European Commission on Thursday stepped up the antitrust penalties Microsoft could have to pay to a whopping $4 million a day for what the Commission says are unreasonable pricing practices. In a statement of objections sent to Microsoft, the commission said the company had failed to comply with...

The FBI loses between three and four of its laptop computers every month, as well as the same number of weapons, according to a recent report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General. Over the last 44 months, 160 FBI laptops were reported lost or stolen -- some containing potentially sensiti...

In response to Tuesday's open letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs calling for major record labels to stop requiring digital rights management technology on music sold online, the Recording Industry Association of America is now calling on Apple to license the antipiracy technology it uses to protect mu...

The Microsoft executive who led the company's Zune product launch, among other things, is retiring from the company, officials announced Wednesday. Bryan Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft's entertainment business, plans to leave the company in the next several weeks to pursue personal inter...

Google said Monday it will be expanding tests of its video advertising system by delivering music video clips from Warner Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment along with advertising over its AdSense online advertising service. As part of a trial during the next four weeks, Web sites that use...

Google plans to build a new, $600 million datacenter in North Carolina designed to help support its online operations, the company announced Friday. The site, to be located in the city of Lenoir, is expected to create about 210 jobs over time. North Carolina awarded Google a 12-year job development ...