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• Midnight e-filer surge causes trouble for TurboTax servers
  Wednesday 18 April 2007 – 06:15
  Google A record number of electronic tax filers brought TurboTax's online service to a standstill last night, causing delays of up to several hours. ...
• While not exactly backdating options, are Apple execs in more trouble?
  Monday 7 August 2006 – 07:53
  According to the WSJ , several Apple executives were issued stock options on 17 January 2001, just before issuing its fiscal first quarter 2001 report. The stock value rose immediately thereafter, and each executive (excluding Steve Jobs) was about $7.5 million richer. It raises eyebrows...but hey, it's not backdating, is it. What's more, it might not be illegal.
• ILOVEYOU writer in trouble again
  Wednesday 6 September 2000 – 06:59
  The Philippine National Bureau of Investigation has asked the Justice Department to reinstate criminal charges against Onel de Guzman, the computer school dropout who detailed, in a rejected proposal to a computer school, how to write the most damaging virus (worm) in history.
• Abit finds itself in more trouble
  Tuesday 6 September 2005 – 03:19
  Second-tier motherboard maker Abit Computer said at a press conference yesterday that the company may miss an extended deadline to turn in its six-month financial report, possibly submitting the report by September 30 at the earliest.
• New 'smart' highways could warn drivers of trouble
  Thursday 18 December 2003 – 02:39
  Federal regulators approved a step Wednesday toward developing smart highways, where warning signals automatically transmitted to drivers can prevent traffic accidents.
• Disastrous first quarter sees Atari facing financial trouble
  Wednesday 10 August 2005 – 06:30
  Publisher Atari has recorded a loss of $32.8 million in the quarter ended June 30th, with year on year revenues tumbling as the firm failed to find a blockbuster to match the performance of Driv3r in the same period last year.
• New airport foot scanner has trouble scanning feet
  Wednesday 17 January 2007 – 11:52
  A new foot scanner, which premiered yesterday at the Orlando International Airport and was supposed to allow travelers to keep their shoes on when going through security, hit a few glitches, as nearly half of the scanned passengers ended up needing to put their shoes through the regular scanner as well.
• Guard at Three Mile Island plays video game, ignores inspector
  Tuesday 30 May 2006 – 06:45
  The Associated Press is reporting that a security guard at the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was concentrating so much on a hand-held video game that he failed a surprise security inspection.
• Nvidia Touts Physics, But Financial Trouble Ahead
  Tuesday 12 August 2008 – 11:40
  Santa Clara (CA) - Owners of a GeForce 8-series or higher graphics card can squeeze more eye candy out of their hardware as Nvidia has released a demo pack consisting of a full game, acceleration demos and Stanford's Folding@Home distributed computing client that showcase the physics and floating point horsepower of the company's graphics cards.
• PS3 has trouble with some older games
  Tuesday 14 November 2006 – 09:51
  Sony's Playstation 3 game console, which went on sale in Japan over the weekend leading off a global launch, can't play some of the older games for the original Playstation and the upgrade Playstation 2 , a company official said Tuesday.
• IDF Not - PC Forecast Spells Trouble for Intel
  Tuesday 10 September 2002 – 06:24
  Research firm IDC said Monday that it has lowered its PC market forecasts for 2002 and 2003 to reflect weakening demand for PCs from both consumer and business users.
• Intel in anti-trust trouble
  Tuesday 8 March 2005 – 08:39
  Japan's antitrust regulator has determined that Intel violated the country's anti-monopoly laws and tried to undermine the competitive position of smaller rival AMD.