A new gaming industry group has emerged after lawsuits. The EU is giving Microsoft a hard time. Here is an interesting read on tech companies cooperating with China and getting heck from the US government.

Monday's document puts that pledge in writing, saying Yahoo will "continue to employ rigorous procedural protections under applicable laws" when approached for information. It also says "if we are required to restrict search results, we will strive to achieve maximum transparency to the user," a reference to evidence that it, Google and Microsoft's MSN have tailored their Chinese search engines to comply with that government's wishes.