In the middle of October, BlackBerry users around the world started getting hit with service outages. Customers in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Canada and other countries were without BlackBerry Messenger, email or the internet in general for a few days. RIM tried to make up for the outage by offering a suite of free apps that it estimates carries a value of over $100, and free technical support. That olive branch is not being accepted by the Consumer Law Group. The group has filed a class action lawsuit against RIM on behalf of Canadian BlackBerry smartphone owners.

Remember the flurry of hate that flew in Google’s direction after Buzz premiered which lowered the privacy wall for some users? Google sent out a “mandatory statement yesterday to all Gmail account owners stating a settlement had been reached and users will not be receiving money. Instead, the money will go to support organizations promoting more »

When Apple first announced the iPhone 3.0 upgrade and later when it debuted the iPhone 3GS it was happy to tout the new MMS features. The feature would roll out immediately with 3.0 to most every iPhone carrier. AT&T was the one exception, though at the time it was said MMS support would come by more »

The Kindle is once again making the news. Only this time, not for a rave review and gushing praise. This time the coverage is because of a $5 million class action suit being thrown at Amazon due to a number of Kindle 2 users finding the build quality of the reader lacking.

When purchasing the Kindle 2, consumers have the option of also purchasing the $30 protective case which fastens onto the plastic body of the Kindle with metal clips. So, some of those Amazon customers, thinking they were being diligent about wanting to take care of their precious new baby did just that, they bought that optional protective case. Their mistake, as it didn’t do much protecting. Instead, so far it seems it caused more damage than it did good in lots of cases.

Does anyone take manufacturers claims about battery life seriously anymore? Apparently someone does. A law firm out of North Carolina and they want to know if you feel cheated, ripped-off or otherwise victimized by manufacturer claims regarding your laptop’s advertised battery life. That’s right, the law offices of Girard Gibbs, LLP is interested in hearing more »

Despite the attention being on the Palm Pre, it seems that another Palm device has snuck back in from the past to catch one final bit of the limelight. The device is the now classic Palm Treo 600 and users, or more than likely, previous users can make their claim to get up to $27.50 more »

While the Treo 600 or 650 may be just a memory (albeit good and bad) for a lot of the Palm users, a class action lawsuit that originally began in 2005 has just received a settlement offer. This lawsuit was dealing with the many issues that were experienced with those models and claimed that Palm more »