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How to get More Ink Out of ‘Empty’ Printer Catridges

We wrote about the Class Action lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over printer-ink monopoly pricing and false “empty catridge” warnings that force customers to guy buy more ink long before the cartridge is really empty. What made today important was a story over on Yahoo about a guy named Farhad Manjoo that was not going to take [...]

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HP Printer Ink Class Action Lawsuit

Ars has the scoop on a Boston man who is sick and tired of walking into a office supply store and paying $30+ dollars for ink for his printer. This was discussed years ago on Slashdot before we had sites like Digg and social networking was all the buzz. At the time the discussion was made [...]

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Class Action Lawsuit against Sony for “Green Haze” or “Green Blob” SXRD Problem

Update #7: User Eric provided an update link to learn more about the class action coverage and which sets are effected: http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=http–esupportsonycom-perl-news-itemplnewsid277templateid1regionid1KSMFlag7370&sliceId=&docTypeID=DT_NEWS_ALERTS_1_1&dialogID=82614236 Update #6: Leo called Sony demanding a replacement and Sony replied that they only thing they could offer is a repair. Upon further pushing Leo was told that he could write the Executive Review Committee [...]

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