Neowin News Feed for: Iowa

TikTok is getting sued by Iowa Attorney General for incorrect age rating on app stores

Anushe Fawaz — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:52:01 +0000

Iowa's Attorney General is taking legal action against TikTok for having an incorrect age rating on stores such as Google Play Store which exposes young audiences to inappropriate content. Read more...

Explosion at Google's U.S. data center may have caused recent outage [Update]

Usama Jawad — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:16:02 +0000

An explosion has been reported at Google's data center in Omaha, U.S. Some injuries have been rumored along with outages, but Google is yet to address the claims in a public statement. Read more...

Microsoft partners with Nextlink Internet in the latest Airband Initiative milestone

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:58:01 +0000

Microsoft has continued its Airband Initiative journey by teaming up with Nextlink Internet. The partnership will bring broadband access to nine million people, including one million in rural areas. Read more...

Microsoft to build $1.13 billion data center in Iowa

John Callaham — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:03:22 +0000

Microsoft announced Friday it will build a data center in West Des Moines, Iowa - costing $1.13 billion and will take four to five years to fully build, bringing in 84 jobs. Read more...

FBI raids Iowa home as part of LulzSec probe

John Callaham — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:17:10 +0000

The hacker group LulzSec may have told the world over the weekend that its hacking campaign was over but that doesn't mean the world's law enforcement agencies are not going after the group. Gawker reports... Read more...

Judge Approves Settlement in Iowa Microsoft Lawsuit

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:10:59 +0000

District Court Judge Scott Rosenberg in Polk County, Iowa, approved a $179.95 million settlement in the Iowa class-action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp yesterday; the settlement was originally announced in April but had not been finalized... Read more...

Microsoft Challenges Attorney Fees in Iowa Case

Tom Warren — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:36:38 +0000

Microsoft Corp. is disputing lawyer fees for the plaintiffs in class action suits against the software company in Iowa and Wisconsin. In both cases the parties agreed to a settlement that included the plaintiff's attorney... Read more...

Iowa Consumers Can Sue Microsoft, Court Rules

Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:17:58 +0000

An Iowa lawyer on Friday vowed to push forward with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. after the state Supreme Court ruled consumers could sue the world's largest software maker for having been allegedly... Read more...