EU moves to ban misleading battery life ads, mandate third party repairs

The European Parliament drafted new legislation with the goal of offering better product labeling in the EU and limiting misleading product characteristics, environmental claims and repairability restrictions. The directive will target the use of unsubstantiated environmental claims on packing and ads such as “climate neutral” and “environmentally friendly” by manufacturers if these are not backed […]

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WhatsApp head criticizes Telegram for misleading its users over its encryption

WhatsApp (or rather parent company Meta) is on the offensive – a few months ago Mark Zuckerberg claimed that “WhatsApp is far more secure than iMessage”, now another messaging app, Telegram, has been called out by Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp at Meta. Cathcart quoted an article by Wired and his own criticism of […]

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Rumors about Samsung killing a Galaxy S24 model are misleading

Samsung may have just confirmed the Unpacked event for the Galaxy S23 series today but the rumor mill is already moving on to next year’s lineup. The latest suggests that Samsung is going to reduce the number of handsets in this series to two, killing off one of the models. According to our information, that’s […]

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Samsung Australia fined AUD 14M over misleading water resistance ads

Back in 2019, Samsung Australia was taken to court by the The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over misleading water resistance advertisement of its phones. The Korean tech giant repeatedly advertised several of its Galaxy S, Galaxy A and Galaxy Note phones as being suitable to use in pool and sea water in its […]

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Samsung fined $9.7 million over misleading water-resistance claims

Well, the latest reports don’t seem to be good for Samsung’s marketing team, as Samsung Australia has been fined a penalty of A$14 million ($9.65 million) over misleading water resistance claims in its Galaxy smartphones. A good number of Samsung phones are touted to be water-resistant, and it is claimed that these Galaxy phones could be […]

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