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• Microsoft responds to Xbox Live ban class-action lawsuit

  
  GAMER.BLORGE — Authority: 433
  Microsoft recently banned between 600,000 and one million gamers from Xbox Live after they were found to have modified their systems or played pirated games on them. Then a U.S. law firm decided to launch a class-action lawsuit over the bannings. As they always do. And now Microsoft has responded to the ...
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• Xboxes For Sale May Be Tainted – Caveat Emptor

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 585
  After hearing my son speak of many Xboxes showing up on Craigslist as “new In box” I started looking around on other places where things are sold, only to find similar results. This might be not that unusual for this time of year, with Christmas approaching, and the economy down, but I was still a bit spooked by ...
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• Don’t Buy That Cheap XBOX 360… It Might Be Banned

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 436
  In the last couple of days, I’ve had three or four of my friends call me and ask if I knew anybody that was looking for a Microsoft XBOX 360 and they all were selling them cheaply. Just over a week, Microsoft banned 1 million XBOX Live Players [Article: CNN ] and those machines cannot rejoin the XBOX Live network, ...
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• Recent XBox Bans Not Actually A Million; Lawsuit Possible Anyway

  
  GayGamer.net — Authority: 539
  Theres been some talk in the past week about a pretty staggering number: one million XBox 360 units banned from XBox Live on account of being modified - presumably, of course, to circumvent those pesky new game prices with the magic of Bittorrent. Not that it ever sounded very wise to tamper with a closed, ...
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• Report: Rushcard Prepaid Visa

  
  THEBLACKURBANTIMES.COM — Authority: 457
  Recently many people have been complaining about the "Rush Card" which was introduced by Russell Simmons. What the card does is allow people who do not have bank accounts to use this card as a portable bank account tied to a card they can use at retailers to pay for goods and services. It charges a fee to use the card ...
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• Angry Xbox Modders Join Together in Class Action Lawsuit

  
  ModCool — Authority: 160
  Up to 1 million Xbox modders were pretty pissed to find that they had been banned from Xbox Live following the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the biggest launch in entertainment history. The mass ban was intended to prevent pirated copies of the highly anticipated game from spreading, a notion ...
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• Effective Security Policy Messaging Important

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 148
  Clearly communicate that, in fact, there are secrets. read more
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• Banned Xbox modders get a class-action lawsuit to call their own

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  You had to know someone out there would try and profit off Microsoft’s recent mass bannination of modded Xbox 360 consoles from Xbox Live, and although the eBay scammers arguably got there first, we’re awarding the style trophy to AbingtonIP, an Oklahoma law firm that’s trying to gin up a class-action lawsuit. ...
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• Banned Xbox modders get a class-action lawsuit to call their own

  
  Engadget — Authority: 871
  You had to know someone out there would try and profit off Microsofts recent mass bannination of modded Xbox 360 consoles from Xbox Live, and although the eBay scammers arguably got there first, were awarding the style trophy to AbingtonIP, an Oklahoma law firm thats trying to gin up a class-action lawsuit. Why? ...
  2 days ago

• Sony Ericsson Pureness hands-on: Pacman edition

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  We’ve seen it out and about, but at last we got a chance to actually play with Sony Ericsson’s tribute to impractical style: the Pureness . As it turns out, using the device is just about as pointless as it seems. You can always just barely make out what’s happening on the semi-translucent monochrome screen, and ...
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• XOR’s X02 Urban Transformer is more Vespa than Wheeljack

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  We can’t all be a Witwicky, owning a badass robot able to change from sportscar to hulking humanoid. Some of us have to aim a little lower; enter the XOR X02 Urban Transporter. It’s an electric scooter that can fold into a little cube for easy storage (shown after the break) and attaches to a luggage cart to be ...
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• Nokia N900 drops to $480 on Amazon

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  The N900’s US retail price of $649 is a steep barrier to cross without the carrier subsidies negotiated in Europe. But what if we told you that Amazon has cut the price to $530 minus another $50 (after mail-in rebate) for a $480 take home price? Not bad for an unlocked ARM Cortex-A8 handset with excellent browser , ...
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• Pogoplug second generation debuts, coming this holiday with enhanced web interface

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  Well, well, looks like Cloud Engines, Inc. is doing what it can to poise Pogoplug as a much more consumer-friendly device, both in hardware design and expanded web interface. The second generation Pogoplug solves one of our chief complaints of the first — namely, four USB ports instead of just one — while at the ...
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• California mandates TV energy efficiency improvements by 2011

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  That new HDTV of yours? It may be thin and light and lovely, but it ain’t saving you any money. Continued here: California mandates TV energy efficiency improvements by 2011
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• This Google’s made from 100% Virgin pulp, not chrome

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  Hey, it may not be from California but at least this KIRF ’s registered with the Vietnamese trademark office (right). Anywho, according to Google’s own machine translation, the subtext of this product reads, “Very long, soft, smooth Continued here:  This Google’s made from 100% Virgin pulp, not chrome
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• Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Scammy Advertising In It’s Games

  
  Toddlers and Tykes — Authority: 492
  Facebook and Zynga (the makers of the popular games Mafia Wars and Farmville), are facing down a class action lawsuit over various advertisements that run on the website and in the games.  There is a lot of concern over the advertisements themselves, and the class action is seeking $5 million dollars from the ...
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• Effective Security Policy Messaging Important

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Christopher Burgess , Senior Security Adviser End users tuning you out? Here’s a three-step process for taking human factors into account in your security program (and even using them to your advantage). Let us begin with the premise that security policies exist to protect an entity’s assets as it ...
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• Sovereignty, Federalism and Class Actions

  
  ClassActionBlawg.com — Authority: 409
  Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal has an interesting article  out today on a recent New York state court decision involving a complex dispute over assets of former Philippines dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, being held by Merrill Lynch in New York.  The court ordered that the funds be paid to satisfy part ...
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• Attorneys in Redbox Class Action Suit Create Website

  
  Inside Redbox — Authority: 471
  A few weeks ago we reported that Redbox was the subject of a class action lawsuit claiming that it has illegally collected $100 million in fees. According to the filing: “While it boasts ‘easy $1 a night DVD rentals’ ‘with no late fees…ever,’ that is not the truth. . . Instead, Redbox charges its ...
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  Trade Regulation Talk — Authority: 125
  , New Jersey $4.8 Million Gift Card Controversy Sent Back to State Court This posting was written by William Zale, Editor of CCH Advertising Law Guide. Because the amount in controversy in a lawsuit on behalf of New Jersey purchasers of Landrys Restaurants gift cards was at most $4.8 million, the ...
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