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A New Zealand teenager who confessed to a major role in a worldwide cyber-crime ring, which led to millions of dollars of losses, was discharged from court yesterday without any conviction.

A UK man from Birmingham has had harassment charges dismissed over his contacting of an ex-girlfriend on Facebook. The case is thought to be a first in the UK involving a social networking site.

Providing misleading financial guidance to analysts in 2005, as the SEC contended IBM did, never turned into anything as the two sides settled the dispute.

A new mobile phone application from Ask offers GPS navigation as the centerpiece of the features it can deliver. The big question: will people be willing to pay $9.99 per month for it?

Three Indian nationals have been charged as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into pump and dump stock schemes the boosted prices for fourteen stocks, including Google and Sun Microsystems.

A couple of weeks back a major Microsoft AdCenter bug costed advertisers huge amounts. This bug made the advertisers pay a blasting amount as compared to what they have bid for. However, this bug was soon fixed and before the advertisers could even raise their brows they were paid back.

You may have heard of the Dell Computers spyware allegations involving My Way Search Assistant. But a story is making the rounds (posted on a blog from last July) that Dell charged a customer $49 to remove the unwanted program from his computer.

Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth, was found not guilty on all of the 36 counts that he was charged with, which included conspiracy, money laundering, mail fraud, etc.