Neowin News Feed for: Defective

Microsoft must pay, says Nokia, after Mexico court ruling on faulty handsets

Andy Weir — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:42:01 +0000

Nokia says that Microsoft is now liable to pay compensation to customers who bought faulty handsets from the Finnish company, after a court ordered that Nokia Mexico pay damages to those customers. Read more...

Nokia Mexico ordered to pay damages to customers over faulty handsets

Andy Weir — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:46:01 +0000

A Mexcian court has ordered Nokia to pay damages to customers who purchased handsets that were later found to be defective - and owners of these faulty devices can still register for compensation. Read more...

New PS3 Owners Discover Noisy, Defective Console Batch

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:02:40 +0000

Although the PlayStation 3 console has had a reliable track record for almost half a year, some new owners of the PS3 are complaining that a recent batch of 60GB consoles is exhibiting a high-pitched... Read more...

Apple Sued for iPod Monopoly, Defective iBooks

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:16:05 +0000

It seems that the stock scandal wasn't enough for Apple; the Associated Press is reporting that the company is facing several lawsuits. One of them, filed July 21, alleges that Apple is monopolizing the digital... Read more...

Xbox Owner Sues Over Defective Disk Drives

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:34:03 +0000

A video game fan upset over a failed disc drive in his Xbox video game console has sued Microsoft Corp. on behalf of all Xbox owners across the United States.. The suit, filed in Los... Read more...

IBM knowingly shipped defective hard drives?

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:27:09 +0000

The possibility of serious reliability problems with certain of IBM's GXP-series hard drives has been well documented. High failure rates may have forced IBM's decision to sell its hard drive business to Hitachi, and anecdotal... Read more...

Major brand hard drive vendors recall defective products

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 May 2003 18:16:11 +0000

Three major brand hard drive vendors – Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – have started recalling some of their 40GB and 80GB products sold in Taiwan due to similar defects identified in... Read more...

Fujitsu admits 4.9m (potentially) defective HDDs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:39:53 +0000

COURT PAPERS CONFIRM: FUJITSU SUSPECTED 4.9 MILLION DEFECTIVE DRIVES 18 MONTHS AGO Failure rate "exceeds all reasonable industry standards". By Keith Warburton at the PC Association ... Read more...

Compaq recalls defective iPaQ SD memory card

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:00:28 +0000

Compaq has issued a customer advisory notice for the SD memory card. This may fail "after a short period of use". in the iPAQ H3800 Series Pocket PC, the company says. The... Read more...

Hundreds of Xboxes were defective

Sat, 05 Jan 2002 04:52:09 +0000

Hundreds of people who bought Microsoft's hot new Xbox game console over the holidays received defective systems, and some say they waited for weeks before the devices were fixed. Analysts said the number... Read more...