Some 60,000 cell-phone users who had signed up to receive “promotional messages” from Nextones.com in order to get a free ringtone got just such a text message on January 18, 2006 advertising a cell-phone-related Stephen King book. This resulted in a class action that was thrown out on the grounds that plaintiffs had agreed to “terms and conditions” permitting such cell-phone advertising; more...

Warner Bros. has been busy getting both Netflix and Redbox to agree to delay renting new release DVDs for 28 days, in the misguided belief that this will get more people to buy the DVDs. While Netflix has tried to spin this as benefiting customers it appears plenty of customers see otherwise. Specifically, at least one customer has filed a class action lawsuit against both Warner Bros. and Netflix...

It appears that the Big Red is facing a class action for charging its non-smartphone users for data services, which apparently the customers never used. The class action is being brought by legal firm Goldman Scarlato & Karon P.C, reports an article over on phonescoop. The suit refers to alleged accidental charges which may accrue if

The law firm of Goldman Scarlato & Karon, P.C., has filed a class action lawsuit against Verizon Wireless in the state of New Jersey. The lawsuit claims that Verizon charged its non-smartphone customers for data service that these customers ...

In the world of cell phone news, Google has been named as the target for a class action suit for its new venture called Google Buzz. Allegedly Google Buzz disclosed the personal information of Gmail users without consent. The internet has been raging against the company for how they introduced Buzz to the market. The complaint cites the computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984 and the suit has the pot...

I definitely agreed with others that Google's failure to realize the potential privacy problems of automating followers based on who you talk to the most -- and then making that info public -- was a privacy mistake, but is it worth a class action lawsuit? To lawyers, of course it is. These days, if you do anything that people don't like, you can pretty much expect a class action lawsuit ...

A class action complaint against Nokia alleges the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008.

Nokia started the week by responding to a class action lawsuit accusing it of securities fraud and separately announced the layoff of almost 300 employees at a Finnish manufacturing plant.

Nokia plans to “vigorously” defend itself against a class action complaint filed by an investor. The complaint accuses Nokia of failing to take into account manufacturing problems when it made statements about certain devices. - Nokia will “vigorously” defend itself against a class action complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Feb. 5, the company sa...

A class action complaint against Nokia alleges the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008.