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Arizona AG announces $3M settlement with Vonage

November 16th, 2009, 2:43 pm by Jayson Peters
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Terry Goddard

Vonage must alter its marketing practices, honor consumer cancellation requests and even provide refunds to some customers under a settlement announced today by Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard that also involves 31 other state attorneys general.

Customers had complained of difficulty dropping their service due to incentives Vonage offered employees who prevented cancellation, as well as confusion over the cost of the company’s equipment and services.

“We cannot allow companies to ignore their customers’ legal rights. Consumers must be treated with decency and not put off or prevented from canceling their phone service,” Goddard said in the announcement, which you can read in full after the jump.

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Kindle controversy spreading?

November 11th, 2009, 11:57 am by Jayson Peters

Opposition seems to be growing to the use of Amazon’s e-book reader in an academic setting.

amazonkindledxTwo universities this week said they will shun the device unless Amazon makes changes to make it more accessible to the visually impaired.

In June an ASU student, backed by the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind, sued Arizona State University over the use of the Kindle DX for textbooks, saying its lack of a nonvisual user interface locks the blind out of the new technology and puts them at a competitive disadavantage.

Not long after that, Amazon made waves (and provoked a lawsuit) with its decision to yank purchased content from users’ Kindles because it consisted of unauthorized editions of literary classics. (Amazon later settled the rights issues and attempted to make it up to consumers.)

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ASU sued by blind groups over use of Amazon’s e-book device

June 30th, 2009, 2:15 pm by Jayson Peters
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Amazon Kindle DX

Arizona State University is being sued by advocates for the blind, who say the school is discriminating against vision-impaired students by offering textbooks via Amazon’s Kindle DX electronic reading device, according to a story by Courthouse News Service.

Darrell Shandrow, an ASU journalism student who is listed as a plaintiff along with the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind, tells ASU’s State Press that the Kindle DX’s lack of an audio menu interfacefeatures locks the blind out of the new technology and puts them at a competitive disadavantage.

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Geek in Review: 2/15/08 - Lawsuits & Lions

February 15th, 2008, 10:38 pm by Jayson Peters

First, the latest news:

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  • There’s trouble in Middle-earth - again! The Tolkien estate is suing New Line Cinema for profits from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This may cause yet another delay in the long-awaited production of The Hobbit.

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