Neowin News Feed for: Charges

Google's time to answer EU charges against its practices is almost up, despite 3 extensions

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:40:01 +0000

Google is facing three distinct charges against it from the EU: Android abuse, unfair online shopping practices, and blocking ad competitors. The company only has a few weeks left to answer. Read more...

Turns out those roaming charges the EU abolished will still be around

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 10:30:01 +0000

The EU proudly announced that roaming charges would become a thing of the past for its citizens. Unfortunately, it looks like there are important loopholes and caveats with some surcharges remaining. Read more...

T-Mobile does away with roaming charges for travellers to Canada and Mexico

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:24:02 +0000

T-Mobile is getting rid of roaming charges for those travelling to Canada and Mexico. Users will be able to use their data, texts and minutes at no additional cost when they're in those countries. Read more...

BT increases home broadband and landline prices by up to 6.5%

Andy Weir — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:31:04 +0000

BT is increasing its broadband and home phone prices by up to 6.5% - almost four times the rate of inflation - from December, but its CEO says the company is "sensitive to the tough economic times". Read more...

Virgin Media increases its broadband prices yet again [Update]

Andy Weir — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:34:39 +0000

Virgin Media is raising its broadband prices for the second time this year, with bills going up by £1.50 a month for certain customers - but those affected can cancel their contract without penalty. Read more...

EA blames a 'system error' that charged $5 for demos

Daniel Hull — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:34:28 +0000

EA said that a "system error" has caused their demo downloads to be tagged with a small charge. Both FIFA 14 and UFC on Xbox Live were free of charge until recently, but briefly cost $4.99. Read more...

Why T-Mobile botched their response to the FTC filing, and how they can fix it

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 06:59:25 +0000

T-Mobile's response to the FTC's claims that it engaged in fraud have been nothing but childish and deflective. But with a few actions, they can actually support their fledgling pro-consumer image. Read more...

FTC lawsuit says T-Mobile earned 'hundreds of millions' through fraudulently charging customers

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:30:23 +0000

In a recent lawsuit filed by the FTC, mobile service provider T-Mobile has been accused of hiding fraudulent charges to third-party horoscope and other text services in its customers bills for years. Read more...

EU reaffirms plans to abolish “rip-off” mobile roaming charges

Andy Weir — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:17:51 +0000

The European Commission plans to push forward with new legislation that would force operators to reduce roaming charges by two-thirds, and regulation to encourage carriers to abolish them entirely. Read more...

Facebook wants to charge you $16 to message a celebrity

Andy Weir — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:15:22 +0000

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

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:57:23 +0000

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:15:33 +0000

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

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:19:17 +0000

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

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:45:14 +0000

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 14:07:12 +0000

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

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:20:47 +0000

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

Sun, 27 May 2007 18:28:16 +0000

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

Tue, 01 May 2007 14:11:37 +0000

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

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:46:06 +0000

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

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

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

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

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:19:12 +0000

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

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

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

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:49:45 +0000

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

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 16:59:09 +0000

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...

AOL Settles Charges of Unfair Billing

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:55:07 +0000

America Online Inc. says it will improve the way it deals with customers who want to cancel their Internet service, resolving federal allegations that the company used unfair billing practices. The Federal... Read more...

Telewest raises remote dial-up charges

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:16:19 +0000

Telewest has increased the cost of connecting to its Blueyonder dialup Internet service from non-Telewest lines, while falsely claiming that users will not incur extra charges from the change. Instead of using local phone numbers... Read more...

Man pleads no contest to online fraud charges

Mon, 12 May 2003 10:02:21 +0000

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A man who sold high-end computers, laptops and other equipment on eBay Inc.'s online auction site pleaded no contest to allegations of fraud totaling $453,000. Chris Chong Kim,... Read more...

IBM denies charges of Unix theft

Thu, 01 May 2003 19:53:49 +0000

IBM has denied SCO Group's allegations that it misappropriated Unix trade secrets, but Big Blue isn't giving hints about what its eventual strategy will be for battling the lawsuit. In an 18-page filing... Read more...

Rambus Denies Document Destroying Charges

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:19:21 +0000

Beleaguered, litigious Rambus is vigorously denying it destroyed internal documents in "bad-faith" and is attempting to block a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) motion to declare a summary judgment against the Los Altos, Calif.-based semiconductor chip... Read more...

Google fights search-fixing charges

Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:05:49 +0000

Good ol' google :) "The search engine is fighting claims by online advertising network Search King that it was deliberately demoted in Google's all-important PageRank. Google has moved to quash a lawsuit that... Read more...

S.Korea to ask U.S. to reject Micron's charges

Sat, 09 Nov 2002 15:23:55 +0000

South Korea said on Saturday it would ask the U.S. government to reject an application for trade penalties by Micron Technology Inc, which accused South Korean computer-chip makers of receiving state subsidies. The... Read more...

U.S., Microsoft Settle Privacy Charges

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 10:06:05 +0000

Microsoft Corp. agreed on Thursday to submit to 20 years of U.S. government oversight of its online identity service in order to settle charges that it misled consumers about security and privacy standards. ... Read more...