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Apple, the darling of the tech world, finds itself the target of multiple class-action lawsuits over its new iPhone 4. Two people taking legal action, Kevin McCaffrey and Linda Wrinn, cannot return their phones without incurring a restocking fee, according to the court where they filed their lawsuit.
The iPhone 4, which shipped to consumers in late June, started seeing reports that holding the phone with fingers covering the three black lines on the phone’s edge and the bottom left corner caused a dramatic drop in data reception. This has become known as the “iPhone Death Grip.”
The lawsuits point to advertisements that promise improved reception and overall service as examples of both Apple’s and AT&T’s deceptive trade practices.
“Almost immediately after the purchase of their iPhone 4 devices, both McCaffrey and Wrinn began to experience significantly reduced reception and performance when handling the phones as demonstrated in Apple’s advertisements or as a reasonable person would handle a mobile telephone while making phone calls, browsing the Internet, sending text messages, or utilizing other services provided by the iPhone 4,” according to the lawsuit.
It has been reported that Apple is prepping for a software update that will alleviate connection problems.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says that thousands of Simplicity and Graco cribs are being recalled. The agency is warning that babies could suffocate or strangle in them. The recall is linked to at least one death. The CPSC also says that about 217,000 Graco dropside cribs made by LaJobi are being recalled.
The problem with both cribs are rooted in hardware failures where a piece of the crib collapses or breaks, which creates a dangerous gap between the mattress and crib where a baby can suffocate or strangle.
If you have bought a product that has malfunctioned, causing an injury to you or a loved one, you should consult a product liability attorney. They can best determine if the manufacturer is at fault.
Florida Verizon and Alltel cell phone customers who were billed for ringtones, wallpapers, and other content, they believed was “free” are eligible for up to a total of $30 million in restitution under an agreement announced Wednesday by state Attorney General Bill McCollum.
Chuck Hamby, Verizon’s Florida spokesman, said the company would set up a website soon detailing how to apply for the refund. Applicants must state they did not authorize the content to be charged to their bills. State officials based their potential payout estimate on the fact that Verizon made $24 million and Alltel $6 million on the sale of mobile content in Florida from January 2005 through December 2008. The Attorney General’s Office said Verizon had “cooperated fully” with the agency’s investigation of services peddled by third-party companies, usually over the Internet, that had contracts with wireless carriers allowing them to bill customers through their phone statements. State officials said Wednesday the office was continuing to investigate similar practices at T-Mobile and Sprint/Nextel.
Verizon also agreed to pay $1 million, and Alltel $500,000, to the Attorney General’s Office for fees and investigation costs.
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The food maker Nestle today voluntarily recalled its refrigerated Toll House cookie dough products and warned consumers not to eat raw Toll House cookie dough as fears about possible E. coli contamination spread to more than two dozen states.
Nestle does advise on its package that people should not eat raw cookie dough.
The company also stressed today that its other products are OK to eat — including its pre-baked cookies, chocolate chips, cocoa and ice cream made by Dreyer’s and Edy’s that contain cookie dough.
Nestle stated, “Consumers who have purchased these products should not consume them, instead, we are asking that consumers return these products to their local grocer for a full refund.”
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