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Insurance Company Refuses to Cover Sony's Data Breach Costs

Zurich Insurance Company (ZIC) and Zurich American Insurance Company (ZAIC) is seeking a court ruling that the insurance policies they issued to Sony do not cover costs resulting from data breaches suffered by the company earlier this year.The insurance companies note that Sony and its subsidiaries are currently the ...

22 July 2011
05:23 GMT

WikiLeaks Credit Card Donations Briefly Opened Again

Credit card donations to WikiLeaks were briefly re-opened last Thursday, but lasted only 24 hours with VISA quickly blocking the ban evasion.A month ago, DataCell, the Iceland-based company that used to collect donations on behalf of WikiLeaks, warned VISA and MasterCard that it plans to file a complaint with the Eur...

11 July 2011
05:18 GMT

Nokia Goes to ITC with Second Complaint Against Apple

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has filed a second complaint against Apple with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), alleging that the company is infringing even more Nokia patents with its mobile phones and portable music players, as well as with its tablets and computers.According to Nokia'...

29 March 2011
14:21 GMT

FTC Files Complaint Against SMS Spammer

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against a man from Huntington Beach, California, alleging that he is responsible for sending millions of SMS spam messages.According to the complaint, during a 40-day period alone, defendant Phillip A. Flora sent over 5.5 million unsolicited commercial text messages at a...

24 February 2011
11:52 GMT

iPad User Screams at Steve Jobs, Says ‘Read This!’

An upset Apple Discussions forum user opened a topic yesterday entitled “STEVE JOBS READ THIS !!!!!” His complaint is related to one of the iPad’s built-in safety measures – an overheating warning message that, according to the customer, pops on the screen even in cool situations. The seeming...

8 April 2010
03:41 GMT

Gross Negligence Surfaces in Baidu Domain Hijacking Incident

An unredacted copy of the complaint filed by Chinese Internet search engine Baidu against Register.com in a New York court last month has surfaced on the Internet. The document reveals that a group of Iranian hacktivists hijacked Baidu's domain name by unconvincingly impersonating a company representative.On Jan...

26 February 2010
08:39 GMT

Adobe Disappointed at Lack of Flash on iPad

As if Apple was going to support Flash out of the blue, without saying a word to anyone (including Adobe), Adrian Ludwig of Adobe has posted an update on their blog, expressing great discontent towards Apple’s move to not include Flash support in its latest product. During the January 27 keynote presentation d...

29 January 2010
08:24 GMT

Magic Mouse Owners Reading Softpedia Seem to Be Having No Problems

Earlier this month, Softpedia picked up a story saying Apple Magic Mouse owners were whining about the peripheral’s poor performance, and even its strange shape. At the time, we had a look at Apple’s Discussions board as it was getting filled with negative Magic Mouse-related posts, many of which appeared...

30 November 2009
06:21 GMT

iFart Developer Makes Funny Video, Appeals to Steve Jobs Over App Rejection

The developer of one of the best known iPhone applications to ever hit the App Store (iFart) and other seemingly useless apps has created yet another simple iPhone application, called Kaching. Unfortunately for Joel Comm, his app has been rejected for boasting little to no user functionality, according to Apple....

26 November 2009
03:47 GMT

Bob Dylan’s Portable Toilet Is Toxic, Neighbors Complain

In what has to be one of the weirdest celebrity-related stories to emerge in the media in a really long time, Bob Dylan’s neighbors have filed a complaint with the Malibu officials, claiming a portable toilet on his property is releasing toxic fumes. The smell is unbearable and the singer won’t do anythin...

18 March 2009
11:14 GMT

Safari 3.2 Is a Crash Frenzy

Hours after Apple's release of Safari 3.2, Apple Discussions was filled with complaints from users who updated the browser to the latest version. 80 percent of the users are reporting issues with the update, particularly with the anti-phishing feature, which crashes the browser once every few minutes. However, ...

14 November 2008
06:07 GMT

Apple: We're Going to Fix MacBook Trackpad Issues

What Apple touted as an innovative feature of the new MacBook line, the button-free glass trackpad, has proven to be the source of numerous disappointments regarding the new line of notebooks. While Apple was coy about admitting the issues at first, reliable sources indicate that the company is now responding to the ...

5 November 2008
06:42 GMT

Apple Continues Monitoring Discussions

The second piece of evidence that Apple is keeping a close eye on its Apple Discussions forum comes from MacBook Pro owner and forum user Jkosh. The guy experienced some trouble with his laptop and decided to seek resolutions on the forum, rather than bother the company. As it turned out, Apple decided to “both...

29 October 2008
10:18 GMT

UK Customers Disappointed with iPhone 3G Purchase

Four days into the release of the new iPhone 3G and thousands of UK handset owners still can't place calls, or use the hefty new features brought by iPhone 2.0 software, the Telegraph is reporting. Disappointed O2 and Carphone Warehouse customers claim that support staffers from both carriers, as well as from Ap...

15 July 2008
03:52 GMT

Gaming Companies Against the US Discrimination

The European online gaming companies are filing a formal complaint against the United States for discrimination after their controversial exit from their market. The firms claim that the US Department of Justice has violated the international trade law when they took legal actions against them leading to an eventual ...

20 December 2007
08:27 GMT

Google Might Be Forced to Change Its Name

If you think you're brave and you're able to do anything in the world, you didn't hear this: a Chinese company called Guge Science and Technology Ltd. Co. takes Google to the judge because numerous consumers think the Mountain View company copied their name. The most important problem of this case is t...

16 July 2007
04:40 GMT

Don't Call Customer Service Too Often: You Risk to Be Banned

According to several Sprint clients, the US carrier is dropping subscribers who, from the company's point of view, are calling too often the free customer service. You know, the service created with the purpose of... yes, you guessed, the purpose of serving customers. Customers who might have complaints or quest...

6 July 2007
09:19 GMT

The Virtual Sex Beds Get People to Court

Although it was known that the famous Second Life has a big impact in the real life for numerous registered members, it seems like the things are going to take a crazy direction. A Second Life member, Kevin Alderman, is suing another user of the famous platform, Volkov Catteneo, for copyright infringement. Let me exp...

4 July 2007
05:50 GMT

Yahoo Goes to Court for Its Search Engine

The giant portal Yahoo is again sent to the court because Lerach Coughlin, a famous law company, filed a complaint against the Sunnyvale firm for violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In other words, the complaint sustains that Yahoo offered incorrect information about the search advertising platform tha...

15 May 2007
05:09 GMT

Rich User? Spam Me and Pay $1 Billion!

The anti-spam organization Unspam Technologies decided to sue an anonymous group of spammers and require them $1 billion in damages. The company is aiming to discover the real group of spammers and block their attempts that are now representing almost 90 percent of all email traffic. According to Viruslist, the orga...

2 May 2007
17:06 GMT


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