Neowin News Feed for: Charges

Facebook wants to charge you $16 to message a celebrity

Andy Weir — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:15:22 +0100

Facebook is expanding its trial to charge users to contact "non-friends", with messages to celebrities and public figures costing up to $16, as the company claims its plan is simply to reduce spam. Read more...

Broadcom Co-Founder Faces Conspiracy and Drug Charges

Trajik 2600 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:57:23 +0100

Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III was indicted Thursday on fraud, conspiracy and drug charges -- including allegations he spiked the drinks of technology executives and customer representatives with ecstasy and maintained a warehouse... Read more...

Sony charges $50 to remove laptop bloatware; Retracts Later

HappyAndyK — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:41:48 +0000

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Sony is offering to remove some of the trial software it crams onto the hard disks of new laptops, for a fee. Buyers of the configure-to-order versions of its Vaio TZ2000 and Vaio TZ2500... Read more...

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Settle Gambling Charges

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:28:30 +0000

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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of US$31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Microsoft will pay $21 million, Google will... Read more...

Cellphone user shocked by charges of $85K

Slimy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:53:04 +0000

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A Calgary man is disputing a cellphone bill of nearly $85,000, claiming the phone company failed to tell him using his phone to surf the internet would cost so much. The Motorola Krzr model Piotr... Read more...

China hits back at hacking charges

Slimy — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:15:33 +0100

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Recent reports suggested that hackers from the People's Liberation Army of China were behind attacks on computers in a handful of Western countries. Chinese military expert Wang Xinjun, a researcher at the Academy of Military... Read more...

SEC Charges 4 More Former Nortel Executives

Sagittarius — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:19:17 +0100

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged four more former Nortel Networks Corp. executives with accounting fraud, alleging they manipulated reserves to change Nortel's earnings statements on the orders of more senior officers of... Read more...

US man admits P2P child porn charges

Slimy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:45:14 +0100

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David Leroy Knellinger Sr, 60, pleaded guilty before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He admitted to using iMesh p2p software to obtain three videos depicting child pornography. US District Judge... Read more...

EU slaps Intel with formal antitrust charges

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:07:12 +0100

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As suspected, the European Union formally lodged antitrust charges against Intel, accusing the CPU maker of using illegal methods to compete against its main rival AMD. "I can confirm the statement of objections has been... Read more...

Solar Jacket Charges Gadgets on the Run

Slimy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:20:47 +0100

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At a fashion show in Florence, Italian fashion company Ermenegildo Zegna Holditalia SpA showed off the Solar JKT, an outdoor jacket lined with integrated wearable electronics developed by Germany's Interactive Wear AG and Innovative Solarprodukte... Read more...

No charges over 'suicide' on web

Slimy — Sun, 27 May 2007 19:28:16 +0100

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Kevin Whitrick, 42, of Wellington, Shropshire, broadcast his death over the internet in March. Those chatroom users who watched him apparently commit suicide will not face charges, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. The CPS... Read more...

Google denies Viacom copyright charges

Slimy — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:11:37 +0100

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Google has responded to Viacom's $1 billion March copyright lawsuit, arguing that it is protected by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act and has not infringed on the rights of the media company. Google believes... Read more...

Siemens Board Member Arrested On Bribery Charges

Slimy — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:46:06 +0100

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Johannes Feldmayer, a top-ranking official at Siemens, was arrested in Germany due to an investigation into payments Siemens made to the head of the AUB labour organization. Siemens said the arrest of the head of... Read more...

Google charges for web programs

Tom Warren — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:46:33 +0000

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Google has introduced a paid-for version of its web applications it hopes will be popular with small firms. The paid version adds more storage, phone help and guarantees of availability to the Gmail,... Read more...

Charges dropped in Russian Microsoft Piracy Case

Slimy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:23:56 +0000

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Charges have been dropped against 40 year-old Alexander Ponosov, a Russian school principal who would have faced up to five years in prison after police seized 12 computers with more than US$10,000 in pirated Microsoft... Read more...

California Attorney General Files Charges in HP Spying Case

Daylene — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:19:12 +0100

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The California Attorney General's office late Wednesday charged former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, a second high-ranking HP executive and three others with felony fraud and conspiracy in the wake of a controversial internal investigation launched... Read more...

HP Charges Into Retail Photo Printing Market

malebolgia — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:42:14 +0000

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Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday announced its entry into the $35 billion retail-photo-printing market, introducing a self-service photo kiosk and an in-store photo studio that will initially installed in Albertsons Inc. supermarkets and Longs Drug Stores.... Read more...

Some Charges Tossed in Novell-Microsoft Case

malebolgia — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:49:45 +0100

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A federal judge in Baltimore has tossed out several of Novell's remaining antitrust claims against Microsoft but allowed some to go forward. Judge J. Frederick Motz ruled on Friday that Novell... Read more...

Aussie faces $68m piracy charges

Brian Henry — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 03:17:59 +0000

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A NSW Central Coast man accused of heading an Internet piracy gang which plundered $US50 million ($68 million) worth of music, film, game and software products faces the prospect of a US jail term. ... Read more...

Microsoft answers EU antitrust charges

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:59:09 +0100

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Despite complaining this month that it wanted more time, Microsoft Corp. filed its response to European Union antitrust charges just before the deadline expired, an EU spokeswoman said Monday. "We've received the reply... Read more...