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Apple Staffer Protests Against Foxconn Worker Abuse

As promised, the members of Change.org and SumOfUs.org took Apple Retail Stores by storm yesterday with 245,000 petition signatures in their hands, targeting unfair labor practices at Apple’s overseas partners. Members of the two protests groups delivered petitions to several stores across the United States, E...

10 February 2012
05:08 GMT

Group Calls on Apple to “Make the iPhone 5 Ethically”

A petition launched by SumOfUs is pressing Apple to address Chinese worker rights, having collected almost 40,000 signatures thus far. The appeal is to make the next iPhone “ethically” and it comes with a statement from the group’s executive director who blasts Tim Cook himself for not taking proper...

1 February 2012
03:50 GMT

More than 40,000 Gamers Ask for PC Version of Dark Souls

More than 40,000 video game players who are fans of the PC have asked publisher Namco Bandai via an online petition to create an official port of the Dark Sould action role playing game, which has gained a dedicated hardcore following on home consoles.The move was sparked by a comment from shoupinou, who is a staff m...

9 January 2012
07:41 GMT

Spanish Company Petitions Court for Release of Its Seized Domains

A Spanish company whose domain names were seized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this year, without any advance notice, has filed a court petition to have them returned.Puerto 80 Projects, based in Arteixo, Spain, is the rightful owner of rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org, two domains ...

15 June 2011
12:37 GMT

Dead Space 2 PC Players Start Petition to Get Console Features

Dead Space 2 PC players have started a brand new petition so that Electronic Arts might add some of the features seen in console editions of the horror game, including downloadable content and the elite suits that aren't present in the New Game+ mode. Dead Space 2 has been out on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbo...

8 February 2011
18:01 GMT

PS3 Call of Duty: Black Ops Gamers Petition Activision for Refund

PlayStation 3 owners of Call of Duty: Black Ops are pretty angry at its publisher, Activision, for not ensuring that the title will perform well on the platform, and have started a petition, mandating for a full refund because they were sold an "inferior" product.Call of Duty: Black Ops was the biggest entertainment ...

25 November 2010
04:09 GMT

HTC Hero Owners Can Sign Android 2.1 Update Petition

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced at the beginning of the ongoing year that it would offer the owners of its HTC Hero handset the possibility to enjoy the latest flavor of the Android operating system available at that time, the Android 2.1 OS. Yet, it did not fulfill that promise until now. ...

25 May 2010
03:57 GMT

Counter Strike 2 Gets a Petition

While Valve has been cuddling some of its games, like Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2, its older titles haven't received any serious attention in a long time. The last big update Counter Strike: Source received was in 2007, with the introduction of the Pure Servers and the "sv_pure," which was a very unwelcome...

26 January 2010
08:30 GMT

MySQL Community Still Fighting Against Oracle

After MySQL founder, Monty Widenius, started an aggressive campaign against Oracle's bid to buy Sun, the community has shown considerable support and anted up the pace with a new pro-MySQL campaign: the HelpMySQL.org website. The site is entitled “Save MySQL” and was launched on December 28, quickly ...

12 January 2010
10:27 GMT

Mac Fan Launches 'Silent Keynote' Campaign

With Apple announcing its scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including Macworld, Lesa Snider King is encouraging Mac fans to express their disappointment at Apple's move. A stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto and founder of the creative tutorial site GraphicReporter, Lesa is also th...

22 December 2008
06:13 GMT

Bubblegum Offered to Vote Against Uwe Boll

The petition that's been up for a while, trying to convince Uwe Boll to quit ruining video game franchises, only has a bit over 260,000 signatures - that is way below the million signatures demanded by the director if he were to stop directing (and he's not going to even if two million people sign that, any...

8 May 2008
13:06 GMT

Video Flickr Not Welcomed on the Web, Users Believe

A few days ago, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo made what seems to be Flickr's first step into the video sharing market: the implementation of video support which allows users to upload their own clips on the famous photo sharing website. That's right, Flickr was actually a photo sharing webpage and the v...

11 April 2008
04:16 GMT

Uwe Boll: "You Will See My Real Genius!"

An anti-Uwe Boll (useless) campaign started two days ago, with an online petition being created in order to show the man that he's really not wanted, appreciated or able to create quality stuff. Of course, he was completely sure that only some people hate him and that is, probably, the reason why he said that if...

9 April 2008
04:25 GMT

Wikipedia Given Grief over Muhammad Pictures

Religion has dragged behind it many bloody wars for as long as history can count and it's most definitely not going to stop now. With time, though, man has increasingly become more rational and has begun to value life over everything else. The wars fought today don't involve capes and medieval swords, but a...

7 February 2008
06:08 GMT

Online Petitions Go Live

If you're willing to make yourself heard on the Internet, you have to create an online petition to sustain your point of view over a certain matter. Because of that, numerous web-based petition services were rolled out but it seems like PetitionOnline remains the top player of the competition. However, LivePetit...

1 October 2007
05:35 GMT

Petition Demanding for a Native Linux Fallout 3

Linux found its fans among many users with all kind of necessities, so that it became a strong and reliable system in many domains. Once with the prompt and fast development and spreading of the Linux operating system, there also came a high demand for more and more features to be brought in. There is a while since I...

17 May 2007
23:56 GMT


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