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The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower lawsuit accusing AT&T of abusing a federal reimbursement program designed to help hearing-impaired people make telephone calls via the Internet.

The U.S. Department of Justice joins the European Union in investigating whether Apple and electronic book publishers colluded to set ebook prices and avoid discounts.

Sony announced today it has hired a new VP and chief security officer: Philip Reitman, whose impressive resume includes time as a prosecutor, bureaucrat, upper level manager of large organizations, but little experience working inside a company to make sure its sites are secure.

The same week it tried to supplant Microsoft with an alternative to Windows, Google suffered PR attacks, security scares and impending financial punishment for choosing bad ad partners.

The DOJ seizes servers and serves search warrants in an effort to take down the long-running Coreflood botnet.

The DoJ's requirement that Comcast let customers see non-NBC shows online may be the only protection business Internet users get from federal regulators.

A lot of coverage regarding Google's proposed acquisition of travel software vendor ITA Software focuses on the irony of former Bush Administration Justice Department attorney Thomas Barnett -- who developed a hands-off reputation as an antitrust investigator -- arguing that the U.S. government should stop the deal because it's anti-competitive.