Displaying items by tag: Federal Court

Already in the midst of NBN controversy, Aussie communications provider TPG has been slapped with a $400,000 fine by the Federal Court for failing to give customers access to police, fire and ambulance services.

Australia's consumer watchdog has launched Federal Court action against Australian Power and Gas (APG) over its door-to-door sales practices.

An American lawyer and amateur model is suing Apple, claiming its Safari browser sparked a porn addiction and ruined his marriage.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is back in court, this time taking on online coupon giant Scoopon.

Federal watchdog ACCC is taking ISP Netspeed to the Federal Court over alleged breaches of consumer law.

Excite Mobile has become the latest victim to ACCC court action, with the Federal Court today finding the company has "engaged in false and misleading and unconscionable conduct" in a monumental decision.

Aussie telco TPG has been ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for misleading ads, but down on appeal from the $2 million it was originally ordered to pay.

Following Wednesday's announcement of a (small) victory for Samsung over Apple in their ongoing court battle, Apple has managed to turn the tables.  Again.

Breaking news: The Federal Court of Australia has unanimously overturned Apple's interlocutory injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet.

The ACCC has, again, dropped the hammer on the use of the word 'unlimited' in advertising for broadband plans. Optus has raised the ACCC's ire but there's a message for all ISPs with shaping now coming under scrutiny.

The Federal Court has decided against Optus for breaching the Trade Practices Act 1974 by engaging is misleading and deceptive conduct through the advertising of its 'THINK BIGGER' and 'SUPERSONIC' broadband plans. It's disappointing to see Optus in this position when it could have been avoided by not only being honest, but also by Optus proactively abandoning 64kbps as a 'shaped' speed, replacing it with a marginally more realistic 256kbps or better 512kbps minimum.

The long-running copyright case between ISP iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) looks to have come full circle, with one Federal Court judge musing out loud that there is a commercial solution to the issue, regardless of what is decided by the bench.

AFACT's appeal against their loss in the iiNet copyright infringement case commenced in the Federal Court today.  It would appear that they are presenting the same half-truths that were peddled in the original case.

Popular online dating website Red Hot Pie has been forced by the courts to reveal to its users that it operated 1,371 of its own profiles on the website.