Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
This is the story that just will not go away. Microsoft has been sued for violation of consumer protection laws for continuing to sell the Xbox 360 despite being aware the hardware is (allegedly) likely to suffer the Red Rings of Death and fail.
I can safely remove the allegedly from this paragraph as I know only
too well how fragile the Xbox 360 can be, having purchased an Xbox 360
Elite model soon after launch only to encounter the Red Rings of Death myself within the year.
Although many readers, mainly Xbox 'Fanbois' I suspect, belittled me
for bothering to write about such problems as Microsoft repaired the
console free of charge, I am glad to see that I am not alone in
thinking that a product should be truly 'fit for purpose' if it stays on sale.
A Californian woman called Reshelle Cable would certainly appear to
agree with this line of thinking. She has sued Microsoft in the
Sacramento County Superior Court, accusing the company of deceiving
consumers regarding the high failure rate of the games console.
Her lawsuit alleges that Microsoft has continued to retail the Xbox 360
despite knowing full well that hardware problems, known as the Red
Rings of Death, are likely to cause it to fail. Cable says that the
rush to market of the Xbox 360 "was detrimental to consumers" as it
"suffered from numerous hardware defects."
Microsoft cannot deny that the console has a problem, after all it has
extended the warranty on all units to cover the general hardware
failure indicated by those three flashing red lights for a full three
years.
One thing that Microsoft will not do, however, is come clean with the
exact size of the problem, although some analysts estimate this to
possibly be as high as 15 percent.
While I only got UKP £10 worth of Xbox LIVE credits in compensation for
my RRoD troubles
Cable wants a little more. She wants not only her money back, but is
seeking that Microsoft divide up the Xbox 360 profits and share them
out to disgruntled owners by way of a refund.
David Bass
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