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"Limbo of the Lost" Devs accused of Plagiarism

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:12:41 +0000

The Register has released an article detailing some seemingly blatant plagiarism by the Developers of the 2007 game 'Limbo of the Lost'. The game, that was published in July 2007 by Tri Synergy, was released... Read more...

Microsoft accused of patent violation in China

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:31:11 +0000

A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing Microsoft Corp because it says the software giant has stolen its creation that allows Internet users to type Chinese characters, but Microsoft countered the claim on Friday. Zhongyi... Read more...

Carphone Warehouse accused of misleading iPhone customers

Steven Parker — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:18:24 +0000

Staff at Carphone Warehouse, the UK-based mobile communications retailer, are alleged to be misleading customers about Apple's iPhone insurance policy, the BBC has claimed. The information being communicated to prospective buyers or customers, who expressed... Read more...

Microsoft Accused of Pulling Nigerian Scam

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:36:17 +0000

French Linux vendor Mandriva's chief executive Francois Bancilhon has lashed out against Microsoft for alleged dirty sales tactics over a Nigerian deal. The company recently competed against the software giant for a deal to provide... Read more...

Google accused by UK group over privacy practices

Steven Parker — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:46:51 +0000

Web search leader Google Inc.'s commitment to consumer privacy came under fire from Privacy International, a British activist group that has previously singled out Google for criticism. The London-based group released a report on Saturday... Read more...

Microsoft accused of using deceptive marketing to tout Vista

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:31:19 +0000

Prior to the availability of Vista, Microsoft launched a marketing campaign that allowed PC makers to place a sticker on computers alerting potential buyers that they could upgrade to Vista when it became available. According... Read more...

Google Accused of Helping Pirates

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:28:51 +0000

Brandon Drury and Luke Sample, the owners of EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com, are currently being sued by several Hollywood studios. How does Google fit in? The two men said in sworn statements that Google received $809,000... Read more...

Dell Accused of Hiding Intel Payments

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:57:27 +0000

The same Wednesday the company announced that founder Michael S. Dell would return to the CEO role, a lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Austin claiming that Dell concealed problems in accounting and... Read more...

Major memory makers accused of price fixing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:59:57 +0000

A group of 34 US states has filed a lawsuit against seven makers of DRam memory chips for alleged price fixing. Infineon Technologies, Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology, Mosel Vitelic, Nanya Technology, Elpida Memory and NEC... Read more...

Google Accused of Profiting From Child Porn

Fri, 05 May 2006 14:28:27 +0000

A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography. Jeffrey Toback, a member of the Nassau County Legislature, said Google has paid links to... Read more...

NVIDIA Accused of hiring actors to post on forums

Steven Parker — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:03:06 +0000

The Consumerist, an online editorial blog has claimed that NVIDIA hires actors to post on gamer enthusiast forums in order to raise positive awareness of its products. The website claims that employees are expected to... Read more...

MPAA Accused of DVD Piracy

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:05:55 +0000

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has been accused of breaking its own rules and making illegal copies of a film. The claims, which came to light at the Sundance Film Festival, centre on... Read more...

Yahoo Accused Of Helping China Jail Journalist

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:07:09 +0000

The media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders says Yahoo gave Chinese authorities information that helped track down a journalist who wrote an e-mail about press restrictions. A French media watchdog said Tuesday... Read more...

JoWooD Accused of Libel by Furious Stargate SG-1 Developer

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:52:10 +0000

Australian development studio Perception has issued an angry statement in response to publisher JoWooD's announcement regarding its Stargate SG-1 videogame, accusing the Austrian firm of "misleading and libellous" statements. JoWooD claimed that it had pulled... Read more...

Accused Sasser Worm Author Confesses in Court

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:29:13 +0000

Sven Jaschan, a 19 year old man on trial for authoring the Sasser Worm, has reportedly confessed to writing the malicious code which caused extensive damage to business and personal data all over the world,... Read more...

Microsoft Accused of Destroying E-Mails

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:11:20 +0000

Microsoft Corp. developed policies stressing the systematic destruction of internal e-mails and other documents crucial to lawsuits it has faced in recent years, a California software company alleges. Burst.com, in court papers... Read more...

Google Accused of Age Discrimination

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:35:22 +0000

Online search engine leader Google Inc. casts itself as an enlightened employer that pampers its employees with free meals to supplement plentiful helpings of stock options that could soon be worth millions of dollars. ... Read more...

IBM execs, S. Korea officials accused of bribery

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:52:02 +0000

Some 48 South Korean government officials and corporate executives, mainly from IBM ventures, have been charged with bribery in a case involving state contracts for computer parts and servers, prosecutors said Monday. Fourteen... Read more...

IBM accused of poisoning workers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:27:28 +0000

IBM has been accused of running an unsafe workplace which resulted in an unnaturally high incidence of disease among its workers in a series of recent filed, hotly contested lawsuits filed in the US. ... Read more...

Intel, AMD accused of cooking the books

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:37:53 +0000

Joe C. Carson of Applelust has invited us to take a gander at an article he published last week in which he more or less claims that Intel cooks the books when reporting results benchmarketing... Read more...

Apple accused of cheating over G5 benchmarks?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:28:04 +0000

Benchmark results cited by Apple at the launch of its Power Mac G5 desktops yesterday have already come under fire for seeming to not only tweak the Mac test system to improve its performance beyond... Read more...

Microsoft, Best Buy accused of Net scam

Fri, 09 May 2003 13:00:59 +0000

The suit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims the alleged scam stemmed from a promotion in which customers at Best Buy, who paid for purchases with credit or debit cards, were given free... Read more...

PayPal accused of violating Patriot Act

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 15:20:27 +0000

A federal prosecutor has alleged eBay Inc. unit PayPal violated a 2001 anti-terror law aimed at fighting money laundering when it provided payment services to online gambling companies, the Web auctioneer said in its annual... Read more...

eBay accused of online slander

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 05:04:53 +0000

A Los Angeles man who says he was libeled in eBay Inc.'s "feedback" section of its Web site has sued the online auction house for refusing to remove statements he says damaged his reputation. ... Read more...

Microsoft manager accused of $9 million fraud scheme

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:32:07 +0000

Thanks Jason for this one. This has been all over the local news here in Seattle. Apparantly, this Microsoft guy made money off of Microsoft in more ways then one. For a... Read more...

MS accused of banning mod chip Xbox from Live service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:27:23 +0000

Microsoft's campaign against Xbox mod chips has ratcheted up a notch with the launch of the Xbox Live online gaming service. According to a posting at Got Mod?, (there's a site that's going to be... Read more...

Microsoft division accused of fraud

Steven Parker — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:02:03 +0000

Thanks Activewin for the heads up on this story. Microsoft Corp. has been accused in a lawsuit of helping Visio Corp. steal a Utah company's software technology for computer-aided designs. In 2000, the... Read more...