Posted April 23, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
Apple has finally started issuing settlement checks to iPhone 4 owners affected by the 2010 “antennagate” debacle. The $15 checks were first issued on April 17 and are only valid through July 16 according to some that have already received…
Posted February 27, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Industry News
Apple has agreed to shell out more than $100 million in iTunes store credits in order to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged children were able to make app purchases on the iPhone and iPad without parental consent. The…
Posted December 26, 2012, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Instagram garnered a ton of negative publicity last week when the photo sharing service changed their terms of service to allow them to sell users’ pictures without notification or payment. The Facebook-owned property quickly changed their tune but things are…
Posted November 16, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft
Los Angeles-based lawyer Andrew Sokolowski has filed a suit against Microsoft due to the fact the company’s Surface RT tablet ships with less free space than advertised. The attorney believes Microsoft intentionally buried details about the actual amount of usable…
Posted October 24, 2012, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Industry News
US District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia has largely dismissed (PDF) a class action suit over Sony's 2011 hacking fiasco. Shortly after Sony revealed that hackers had swiped the personal details of tens of millions of PlayStation customers in a massive security…
Posted July 13, 2012, 4:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
AU Optronics (AUO), LG Display and Toshiba have finally settled for $543.5 million bringing an end to the six-year long multi-state led class-action lawsuit in which all three companies stood accused of operating an LCD panel price-fixing ring.
Microsoft is following in the footsteps of several other large corporations by adding a clause to their end-user license agreements that will prevent individuals from filing class-action lawsuits against them. The decision was announced in a post on the Microsoft…
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