Prodigy Services Co

The trouble all started last summer, when Peter DeNigris bought his first computer. For years, the 41-year-old Long Island, N.Y., elections forms processor had invested small sums in small companies. Like many amateur investors, he had lots of opinions about his stocks, but few people who cared to hear them.

While most Americans settle in front of the television to bite their nails over tonight's election returns, cutting-edge viewers will sit down at the home computer, tap into a telephone hookup, enter a code word and call up Prodigy. There they can track races at their own pace--getting instant updates on specific congressional races and on the presidential battle. Maps, charts, polling information and candidate interviews will also be fed into the mix by Prodigy's newsroom computer wizards.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office confirmed Thursday that it has widened its investigation into Prodigy Services Co. to include complaints that the popular electronic information service has unauthorized access into subscribers' computers and has violated their privacy.

Prodigy Services Co., the operator of a popular electronic information service for home computer users, is under investigation by the consumer protection division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, a county official said Monday.

Prodigy Services Co., the electronic computer service, said Wednesday that it has offered to reinstate a group of a dozen subscribers whose services were cut off after they protested the company's new policy of charging fees for electronic mail. Brian Ek, spokesman for the White Plains, N.Y.-based joint venture of International Business Machines Corp. and Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Prodigy Services Co., an electronic computer service, said Wednesday that it has offered to reinstate a group of a dozen subscribers, including several in Orange County, whose services were cut off after they protested the company's new policy of charging fees for electronic mail. Brian Ek, spokesman for the White Plains, N.Y.-based joint venture by International Business Machines Corp. and Sears, Roebuck & Co.