Tag: CLASSACTION

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... A Wikileaks spokesperson has responded to a rumor that the site may soon close its proverbial doors, saying in a typically tactful fashion that "the "bull#### campaign" will soon be addressed because, "[there] is no substance to the allegation." [From: The Next Web] The lawsuit concerning Apple and AT&T exclusivity has just ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Online retailer Woot! just gained a massive new corporate parent, as the site has reportedly inked a deal with Amazon. The venture is apparently similar to previous Amazon purchases, which have allowed sites like Zappos and Audible to operate as independent entities. The quirky Woot! crew has already released a video detailing the ...

Storm8, the developer of popular (but terrible) iPhone games like 'Vampires Live' and 'iMobsters,' has found itself on the wrong end of a potential class-action lawsuit. A lawsuit has been filed, on behalf of Washington resident Michael Turner, that alleges Storm8 built its games with a "feature" that automatically sends the phone number of each host iPhone to the developer. Turner is suing on ...

Nintendo's fended off class-action lawsuits over "defective" Wiimote straps in the past, and if you remember, they also replaced about 3.2 million of the straps (a/k/a "all of them") around the same time too -- way back in December of 2006. Well, the same lawyer's back for round two with a new, nearly identical suit, but this one also alleges that Nintendo knew that the defect existed and was ...

One of our dreams is finally coming true -- someone is suing the crap out of Classmates.com. The annoying proto-social-network somehow survived the dot-com bubble without making significant changes to its questionable marketing practices. We've all gotten e-mail from the site, at some point, trying to entice us to pony up some dough by claiming that some high school buddy is trying to contact us. ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/AT_T_Retailer_Accused_of_Pawning_Used_Nokias_as_New'; Notice that your freshly-purchased N75 smells more like a week-old head of cabbage than a bundle of brand new plastic, glue, and circuitry? That's gross, and no, we don't want to touch it (seriously, get that thing away from us). Turns out you may not be alone, though -- a new class-action suit filed in ...

Apple, no stranger to class action law suits at this point, is under the gun again. This time for misleading claims about the screens on its 20 inch model iMac PCs. Apple claims that its screens can display millions of colors -- 16,777,216 to be exact -- and while that is true of the 24-inch model and the previous generation 20- and 24-inch models, the recent update to the iMac line brought a ...

Verizon is about to become the target of the largest class action suit ever certified in arbitration. The suit covers the over 70 million former Verizon Wireless subscribers and could have a pay out as high as $1 billion. Yes. A billion. Claimants in the suit are allowed to dispute the $175 early termination fee that Verizon has since started prorating. Termination fees are meant to cover ...

A new ruling requires that Target.com and other sites allow for keyboard navigation and use alternate tags for images in order to make the sites accessible for the visually-impaired. These requirements sound simple enough, but may prove difficult for all of those dynamic, Flash-enabled pages that are popular among e-commerce sites. That means this ruling could cost site providers like Target, ...

Some people are just desperate for attention and cash. Case in point: Jose Trujillo, a man who is either the worst scam artist ever -- or deaf and illiterate -- has filed a class action suit against Apple claiming: "Unknown to the Plaintiff, and undisclosed to the public, prior to purchase, the iPhone is a sealed unit with its battery soldered on the inside of the device so that it cannot be ...