Sweden adopts law allowing official eavesdropping
Sweden's Parliament narrowly approved a law Wednesday that gives authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone traffic that crosses the Nordic nation's borders.
Engineer is first sentenced for economic espionage
An engineer who admitted he tried to sell fighter-pilot training software to the Chinese Navy was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in federal prison, in the first sentencing for a newly defined intellectual property crime.
Board member, former Microsoft president to retire
Longtime Microsoft Corp. board member Jon A. Shirley will not seek re-election in November, the software maker said.
Founders of Yahoo's Flickr head for the exits
The husband-and-wife team behind Yahoo Inc.'s popular photo-sharing service Flickr have resigned, following two top executives that have departed since the Internet pioneer rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.
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