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The European Commission announced on Monday that it will begin formal investigations into allegations that IBM has abused its dominant market position in mainframe computers.

Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna woes has provided creative entrepreneurs an opportunity to make some money marketing related wares.

The U.K.’s Cyber Security Challenge began accepting registrations Monday for a series of computer security exercises designed to spur interest in the field.

Despite fears caused by the European debt crisis, spending on technology products and services is set to continue growing around the world, although the pace of growth in Europe overall will be lower, Forrester Research said in a report released Tuesday.

We’d heard of plans for a European midnight launch party to celebrate the upcoming StarCraft II’s release, but Blizzard took its time telling us about the North American gig. Here are the need-to-know details for Blizzard’s biggest day of the summer.

The Mac software bundle meets the TV reality show scene with the latest bundle promotion from Mac Bundle Box. VoteBundle presents a list of twenty Mac applications and the opportunity to vote on them. The top ten applications will be included in Mac Bundle Box’s next app bundle for a set price. The bottom ten will presumably be left on the island for the smoke monster.

Foursquare, the location-based social-networking service, registered its 100 millionth “check-in” on Monday evening, the company said Tuesday.

It’s good to see the smart folks at Google Search are keeping a close eye on the competition. The company’s official blog today announced a series of minor but useful tweaks to the popular Google Image Search, which has mushroomed from a relatively tiny index of some 250 million images when it launched in 2001 to more than 10 billion today.

The Internet has been abuzz with rumors and conjecture about why blogging Web site Blogetery.com and its reported 70,000 bloggers went dark last week.

The European Union is set to add €1.2 billion (US$1.5 billion) in funding for IT research in Europe, and about half the amount is earmarked for robotic systems, next generation network and service infrastructures, electronic and photonic components and digital content technologies.