Tag archive: Kentucky

Electronics maker LG, in conjunction with th Consumer Product Safety Commission, has issued a recall for 30,000 LG 830 Spyder mobile phones due to poor voice quality on calls to 911 emergency services and difficulties maintaining phone connections. The recalled phones have software versions T83LGV03 and T83LGV04; users can check the software version on their phone by selecting “Phone Information” from the handset's Settings… Read More

Computer maker Dell has agreed to pay some $3.35 million to settle 34 states' allegations that the company's warranty, financing, and rebate offers were deceptive and misled consumers. The agreement has Dell paying $1.5 million into a restitution account; impacted consumers will be able to submit claims for compensation. The other $1.85 million will go towards the states' legal costs. “More than the money, this… Read More

It might sound a little bizarre, but it’s true. A Kentucky court has said that the state is within its rights to grab the domain names of 141 different gambling sites in order to protect its citizens, since the state forbids gambling. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said: “Unlicensed, unregulated, illegal Internet gambling poses a tremendous threat to the citizens of the Commonwealth because of its ease, availability… Read More

On June 5 Kentucky’s Attorney General, Jack Conway, announced the introduction of a cyber crime unit in the state, and it began operations only last week, with a focus on identity theft. Now it certainly has a crime to investigate, as Conway himself has been a victim of ID theft. He discovered the problem when his credit card was refused by iTunes, and he says thieves used his stolen credit card to spend thousands of dollars on… Read More

George Hotz, the New Jersey teen hacker who unlocked his iPhone from AT&T and used it on T-Mobile, is trading in his phone. In its place he’ll be receiving a new car and a consulting job.  Hotz made the deal with Louisiville, Kentucky cell phone repair company CertiCell. He wrote on his blog that he’ll be receiving“a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones. This has been a great end to a great summer.” Hotz,… Read More

The great thing about the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is that anyone can edit it…and the bad thing about the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is that anyone can edit it. At the same time the project invites members of the online community to share their knowledge and contribute their expertise, it also attracts the cranks, hooligans, and outright fraud come out of the woodwork to alter, falsify, and flat-out vandalize articles. The… Read More

Following immediately on its settlements with Texas and California, music label Sony BMG has agreed to pay some $4.25 million as part of settlement agreements with 39 U.S. states and the District of Columbia regarding copy protection software included on some of the labels music CDs which caused computers to malfunction and exposed users to security threats. The terms of the agreement are similar to earlier settlements with Texas and… Read More

So whatcha doing June 15 to 18, 2006? How 'bout a road trip to Louisville, Kentucky?! Games Media Properties plans to kick off its six-event, six-month World Series of Video Games at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, with four circuit events to follow throughout the rest of 2006 and a final, culminating event taking place in December 2006 to “establish the world's first true video game champions.” The… Read More

“America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17. Bentley said she expects AOL will phase out existing broadband customers in the rest of the country in a similar manner over the next year.” The affected states are Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana,… Read More

BPL will provide consumers nationwide with high-speed Internet access through their existing electrical outlets. BPL also assists utilities with critical intelligence to enhance the security,reliability and efficiency of the U.S. electric power grid. “This is one of the defining moments for the widespread adoption of broadband by Americans, and a great testament to the FCC's leadership and to the cooperation and support of the… Read More

Cinergy Broadband LLC is teaming up with Current Communications Group LLC, a Germantown, Md.-based technology company, to offer the service in sections of Cincinnati this year. Plans call for an eventual expansion into Kentucky and Indiana; Cinergy hopes to market the service to 55,000 of its 1.5 million customers this year. A second venture will bring the technology to smaller municipal and cooperatively owned power companies,… Read More

Lexmark printer cartridges for the T520, T620, and T630 laser printer families use chips to verify that the cartridge is one manufactured by Lexmark, and cartridges from third-party vendors without those chips will not work in Lexmark printers. Last year, Lexmark won an injunction in a Kentucky court prohibiting SCC from distributing its Smartek chips that replicate the signals sent from Lexmark's chips in the T520 and T620 printers.… Read More