Apple fined $1.2 million for misleading Italian consumers on AppleCare



Apple has been fined $1.2 million by Italy’s Antitrust Authority for misleading consumers about their rights to product warranties, according to the BBC. Italian law guarantees consumers a two-year warranty on all products they purchase, but Apple had only been offering its standard one year of support and was inducing customers to purchase AppleCare Protection Plans for longer-term coverage.

Italy’s Consumer Code, enacted in 2005, considers sellers liable for defective products for two years after the time of sale. Apple’s default warranty in Italy and elsewhere covers its products for only one year, and covers them for an extra two years when customers purchase an AppleCare Protection Plan.

Italian authorities have determined Apple violates the Consumer Code with its one-year warranty, resulting in a fine of €400,000 (US$522,860). Apple also must pay a €500,000 (US$653,575) fine for leading customers to believe they needed to purchase protection plans to extend their warranties beyond a year. (Apple did not respond to our requests for comment.)

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Calvin And Hobbes Vs. Christopher Robin And Pooh

In the alternate reality presented by these slick illustrations by Coran Stone, Calvin and Hobbes grew up to be super spies, and Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear are hell bent on bringing them both down.

These illustrations, and the story behind them, are just begging to be made into an animated series of some sort, and you can read the whole thing at the Geeks Are Sexy link below.

It’s the ultimate battle of imaginary friends, and I like the fact that, in the Pooh picture, Hobbes is still a stuffed animal!

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Untethered jailbreak now available for pre-A5 iPhones, iPads and Touches

It’s just a few weeks since pod2g revealed his untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 and — boom — all of a sudden it’s up for the DL. The exploit has been incorporated into redsn0w 0.9.10, the Pwnage Tool and Chronic Devteam’s Cydia package, and it works on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (including the CDMA version), iPad 1, iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G, so long as they’ve been updated to iOS 5.0.1. Meanwhile, pod2g is reportedly now looking for a way to snap the shackles on A5-based devices too, but hopefully only after he’s taken some rest — a burned-out jailbreaker is no good to anybody. Full instructions are at the source link.

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JXD releases S7100 Android-based gaming tablet, manages to steal from everyone

If you’re going to steal, steal from the best. JXD has just released its S7100, a fairly conspicuous 7-inch Android-powered gaming tablet marketed towards playing old-school arcade games. The device features a D-pad, face buttons, an 800 x 480 capacitive touchsceen, ARM Cortex A9 CPU, Mali 400 GPU, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, 0.3 megapixel front camera, 2.0 megapixel rear camera and HDMI-out. A video trailer shows the unit playing a variety of touchscreen games and classic ROMs including Metal Slug, Mario Kart 64, Angry Birds, Plants Vs. Zombies and Fruit Ninja HD. Not to be undone, the device also features the actual PlayStation button icons on its own buttons (sound familiar?), while the marketing website for the device sports icons from Apple, Google, Microsoft and others. If you’re thus far undeterred, there’s a must-watch promotional vid hosted just after the break — nothing justifies a $140 price tag like Bieber, right?

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