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If anyone thought Samsung's global clashes with Apple were bad, they were probably right, but they might be nothing compared to what the company just got slammed with.
Long story short, the European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against Samsung.
The goal is to see if the company tried to s... |
31 January 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Actor Jeremy Renner has been involved in a very serious bar brawl in Thailand, which ended with one man being stabbed in the abdomen and neck, and several other persons injured, himself included. TMZ informs that Renner, star of “The Hurt Locker” and the more recent box office hit “Mission Impossi... |
5 January 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Formal antitrust proceedings have been kicked off by the European Commission to investigate the matter of e-book price rigging by several renowned publishers “with the help of Apple.” Apple maintains the iBookstore, a section of the iTunes store where iPad, iPhone and iPod touch owners can download paid a... |
6 December 2011
07:59 GMT |
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On November 10, the world found out that the FBI arrested six Estonians for allegedly running the largest, most sophisticated cybercriminal scheme the world has ever seen so far. After two years of intense investigations conducted by the FBI in collaboration with Trend Micro, the operation was shut down, but the da... |
2 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning, as she relapsed after a period of abstinence. Her doctor testified in court at the inquest of her death, saying her last words were “I don't want to die.”Dr. Christina Romete, Amy's GP, was with her the night before she died and, she told the court, she s... |
27 October 2011
11:05 GMT |
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The findings of the inquest into Amy Winehouse's death has finally been made public to the press: contrary to ongoing speculation, the singer did not overdose on drugs, but died of alcohol poisoning, it has emerged. In August this year, authorities said that they believed Amy had been clean of drugs for months a... |
26 October 2011
09:48 GMT |
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When British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home on July 23, many assumed she had OD-ed on heavy drugs, and only few believed her father Mitch when he said she’d been clean for the past 3 years. Those few were right, the toxicology report reveals. The results of toxicology tests have been mad... |
23 August 2011
10:52 GMT |
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According to victims notified by the police, the criminal investigation targeting former News of the World (NotW) employees has been expanded to include computer hacking.The new investigation, called Operation Tuleta, will focus on suspicions that News of the World reporters paid a hacker to infect the computer of fo... |
1 August 2011
12:22 GMT |
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After neighbors called the police on Amy Winehouse’s fans who were celebrating her life outside her London home (i.e. drinking and playing music loud), they – the fans – were treated to the best gift ever: Mitch Winehouse gave them Amy’s clothes. After the sudden death of the 27-year-old singe... |
29 July 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy Winehouse’s ex husband, believes he could have saved her, had he been by her side. Now serving time in jail for burglary, Blake is claiming that it was his absence that killed the British singer. Ironically enough, it was Blake who introduced Amy to heavy drugs and who led her down a pa... |
27 July 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Amy Winehouse has been laid to rest. In a small ceremony only for family members and fans, her body has been cremated. The ceremony ended with her father, Mitch Winehouse’s words “Goodnight my angel, sleep tight.”The British singer, who was just as famous for her incredible music as she was for her ... |
26 July 2011
11:38 GMT |
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The autopsy on Amy Winehouse has offered no indication as to the cause of death, save to confirm that there was no foul play, it has been announced. Toxicology results will indicate whether her untimely passing was drug-related or not. The British singer was found dead in her London apartment Saturday afternoon, afte... |
26 July 2011
03:34 GMT |
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One of the most talented singers of our times – and perhaps the most troubled as well – is no longer with us. Amy Winehouse, the British diva who won over the hearts of millions with her deep, gorgeous voice, was found dead in her London apartment only hours ago. Amy was only 27 years old and, while it is... |
23 July 2011
13:57 GMT |
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After last week’s shock sentencing of Casey Anthony as not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, there’s been lots of negativity directed towards her and the 12 jurors. Some of that has now transformed into troubling death threats. Now awaiting to be sprung free from jail, Casey is being targe... |
11 July 2011
09:22 GMT |
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The FBI raided a house in Hamilton, Ohio, believed to be the residence of a hacker involved in various cyber attacks who was exposed by LulzSec a few weeks back.LOCAL 12 News reports that agents from the FBI's Cincinnati office executed a search warrant at a house on Jackson Road in Hamilton in connection with a... |
30 June 2011
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Singer Sean Kingston was involved in a jet ski accident late on Sunday night, when he crashed his watercraft into a bridge. His rep says he’s been moved from the trauma unit into ICU, which means he remains in critical, but stable, condition.As we also informed you the other day, Kingston and an unidentified fe... |
31 May 2011
04:41 GMT |
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If Maria Shriver decides to file for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger in the wake of the infidelity scandal, she could get anywhere between $200 and $400 million from him. New reports suggest that Arnold stands to lose even more from the scandal.Radar Online has confirmed that an official investigation is being lau... |
26 May 2011
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Kerry Campbell grabbed headlines from around the world when she went on Good Morning America and admitted that she would give her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections and waxing. Her daughter has been removed from her care over the weekend. The story broke in The Sun, and Campbell agreed to do GMA because she wanted ... |
17 May 2011
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She claimed she wasn’t doing something that other mothers weren’t doing as well. She also said her 8-year-old daughter wanted to receive adult beauty treatments. Kerry Campbell is now under investigation for injecting Britney with Botox for kiddie beauty pageants.
Kerry and Britney (now living in San F... |
14 May 2011
06:19 GMT |
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Actor Tom Sizemore has again caught the eye of authorities, after his latest girlfriend went missing about a month ago. Just recently, cops questioned the star, since it would seem that he was the last person to speak to her. TMZ reports that Sizemore has been questioned in relation to the disappearance of Megan Wren... |
13 May 2011
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Yesterday, waves of shock tore through the fashion industry, as word spread that plus size model and actress Mia Amber Davis died. She was just 36 years old and had undergone knee surgery just the day before.As it turns out, the preliminary investigation into what may have caused her untimely demise points out that t... |
13 May 2011
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A gang that used a computer trojan to break into online banking accounts and steal money was dismantled by the Finnish police who arrested seventeen suspects.According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure, the attacks occurred in early 2010 and targeted customers of Nordea Fi... |
10 May 2011
14:22 GMT |
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Following similar actions in other countries, the South Korean Communications Commission has opened a probe into Apple's location data collection practices.Apple is being investigated by telecom regulators in Germany, France and Italy after two British researchers recently revealed that iPhones are storing locat... |
26 April 2011
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Rebecca Black managed to do the impossible: set new YouTube records and, at the same time, release the worst single and music video ever, “Friday.” Reaction to her first foray into “music” has been so harsh that police are now investigating a series of death threats she received.“Friday&... |
20 April 2011
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South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched an investigation into a data breach at Hyundai Capital, the country's biggest lender, which affected around 420,000 consumers.The security incident was disclosed last week, when Hyundai Capital announced that a hacker managed to steal the names ... |
11 April 2011
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Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has launched an investigation into the recent data breach at email marketing services provider Epsilon which resulted in the exposure of millions of email addresses.The security community is still in shock over the extent of the Epsilon breach which affected the custome... |
8 April 2011
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The investigation of unusual activity on the European Parliament's webmail system revealed that it was not the result of a cyber attack.The EU Parliament has resumed normal webmail service operations after it was suspended last week in light of suspicious traffic.The Parliament's IT staff looked at the syst... |
3 April 2011
23:48 GMT |
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The recent hacking attack at NASDAQ, the world's second-largest stock trading market, might have been more serious than originally thought as the National Security Agency was brought into the investigation.Joel Brenner, the former head of U.S. counterintelligence, told Bloomberg that the involvement of NSA in th... |
31 March 2011
03:46 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announce that the organization is again conducting a federal investigation on its Florida facility, after a small bag containing powdery cocaine was discovered at the spaceport.
According to early reports, field tests conducted on the white substance when it was discovered indicated that it was ... |
16 March 2011
03:25 GMT |
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A new operation launched by members of the Anonymous collective has captured the attention of Pentagon officials who asked law enforcement agencies to investigate the group's actions.According to a Forbes report, Anonymous hacktivists threatened to harass Department of Defense Press Secretary Geoff Morell and ch... |
9 March 2011
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The Church of Scientology is turning its members, many of them well off people, into slaves. This may sound like something Anonymous would say, but, this time, it’s FBI’s stance on the way the group deals with its members, it has emerged.
As we also noted earlier today, famous director and screenwrite... |
9 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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A Los Angeles jewelry store owner is accusing Lindsay Lohan of walking out of their establishment / stealing a $2,500 necklace. The LAPD is investigation and, if charges will be pressed, Lindsay will be kissing her comeback goodbye. The story broke earlier this week, when said owner went to the police claiming that, ... |
4 February 2011
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UK privacy advocates are strongly criticizing the Information Commissioner's Office for dropping its investigation into Data Protection Act violations committed by BT when sending unencrypted customers details to a law firm.The investigation began last September when an email database was leaked from ACS:Law, a ... |
2 February 2011
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The Australian Privacy Commissioner has launched an investigation into Vodafone's data handling procedures after insufficient security measures led to unauthorized people accessing sensitive customer information.Last weekend, the Sydney Morning Herald revealed that Vodafone's employees, retailers and dealer... |
11 January 2011
12:39 GMT |
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Over a week after the actual performances aired live, media watchdog Ofcom has announced it will investigate the thousands of complaints received over Christina Aguilera and Rihanna’s “raunchy” performances on the first part of the final show of the season. As we also reported at the time, both perf... |
22 December 2010
06:51 GMT |
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It would appear that the intricacies of the legal system are convoluted enough that certain accusations against a certain former HP CEO may have been a means to conceal other, deeper reasons for Mark Hurd's departure from the company.Once again it is confirmed that the holiday season is the perfect time for new... |
21 December 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan is terrified: for a while now, she and other family members have been receiving threatening e-mails and text messages, and Dina is so worried that the stalker may act on them that she’s gotten the FBI involved. It turns out that, when Lohan filed for a protection order against the paparazzi earlie... |
21 December 2010
03:48 GMT |
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Those users keeping track of such things will know that the European Commission and Intel do not have a very pleasant history, and the former seems to again be suspicious of the latter's activities. Ever since the European Commission fined Intel $1.45 billion for antitrust charges, it seems to have kept close w... |
20 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Earlier this week, news broke that an actor who’d once appeared on “Ugly Betty” had killed his mother by beheading her with a samurai sword. Now locked in the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital, Michael Brea speaks of the gruesome murder, saying it was an act of God. While parts of the initial report ... |
27 November 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Michael Brea, whose credits include “Ugly Betty” and “Step Up 3D,” has been taken into custody on suspicion that he beheaded his own mother with a samurai sword, while reciting biblical passages, TMZ has learned. The celebrity gossip website / paparazzi agency reports the actor was arrested wh... |
24 November 2010
04:47 GMT |
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The Russian Financial Monitoring Service is currently investigating if local banks were involved in cyberfraud and money laundering operations abroad, particularly in the United States.This year, Russian authorities have engaged in a crack down on cyber criminal activity and an unprecedented level of cooperation with... |
18 November 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Amber Portwood, star of MTV’s reality show “Teen Mom” is under investigation for domestic violence after she beat ex-fiancé Gary Shirley on camera. MTV has handed over all tapes to investigators. The network aired footage of Portwood beating Shirley this September, which is also when authorit... |
11 November 2010
02:56 GMT |
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Teen pop star Justin Bieber is being investigated in Canada after the father of a boy told police Justin hit his child during a game of laser tag. Reports say, however, that the boy bullied Justin, hurling a homophobic slur at him. Word in the local press has it that the father of the boy, the alleged victim, told po... |
18 October 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Television network TLC is standing behind its latest reality show, “Sister Wives,” which documents the life of Kody Brown and his 3 wives: by saying it will continue shooting even if the entire family is put behind bars.Yesterday, it emerged that Utah authorities were investigating Brown and his 3 wives (... |
30 September 2010
11:22 GMT |
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After the “John and Kate Plus 8” and other similar experiments, TLC is bringing into the spotlight another type of extended family: “Sister Wives” documents the story of polygamous Kody Brown.Mr. Brown has 3 wives (and is about to marry a fourth), 13 children and 3 stepchildren. Because of the... |
29 September 2010
11:28 GMT |
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Just a short while ago, Oracle announced that it was hiring Mark Hurd, former HP CEO, as co-president, but HP is not at all pleased with this turn of events, which is why it filed a civil complaint against him.About a month ago, HP fired its CEO Mark Hurd following investigations into alleged sexual harassment. ... |
8 September 2010
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A new video is going viral: over 40 seconds long, it shows a long-haired girl in a red hoodie, taking squealing puppies out of a white bucket and hurling them into a river, one by one. As outrage cries continue to pour in from all sides, director Michael Bay has also chosen to speak out on the incident, even offering... |
3 September 2010
08:36 GMT |
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Lawsuits are definitely nothing new on the IT market, considering the many antitrust charges and patent litigation that arise every so often. Still, though they are common, their consequences can be quite unusual at times, as is proven by a particularly curious case that is plaguing HP's now former Chief Execut... |
7 August 2010
04:38 GMT |
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Many countries choose to clone animals that are considered extraordinary for one reason or another, mostly cows that produce considerable quantities of milk. However, the EU is now about to pass a law that bans meat and other by-products from cloned animals from entering the human food chain in any shape or form, bec... |
3 August 2010
03:26 GMT |
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The European Commission is handling a fair number of antitrust litigations and it seems as though it just got two more to deal with. Apparently, IBM has now become the subject of scrutiny and it seems it now has to deal with its own share of antitrust charges. The EC claims that some of its rules were broken when it ... |
27 July 2010
11:47 GMT |
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