A French judge is investigating news reports that the country’s secret service illegally obtained a journalist’s phone bills from France Telecom. The reporter was probing donations to the election campaign of president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Wall Street Journal 

 

Microsoft blames a DNS error for a major service failure that includes another outage for Office 365, its web-based applications suite.

 

AT&T claims its merger with T-Mobile USA will improve services and cut prices, in response to a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to block the deal.

Bloomberg 

 

Carol Bartz resigned as a director of Yahoo on Friday, despite originally stating she would keep her seat even after being fired as CEO.

YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are attempting to revive Delicious, a social bookmarking service abandoned by Yahoo.

New York Times  

 

Researchers expect a supercomputer to one day be able to predict major events such as the recent revolutions in the middle east, by charting the sentiment of documentation such as news stories.