BRUSSELS (AP) -Former Spain striker Raul Gonzalez has kicked off an anti-hunger campaign during which many of Europe's top football clubs will raise awareness of the plight in west Africa's Sahel region, where 10 million people need help.
From Manchester United to Barcelona, Real Madrid to AC Milan and Schalke, players from top clubs will wear "Sahel Emergency" T-shirts ahead of their matches of the March 31 weekend to alert millions of fans in stadiums and on television about the life-threatening situation in Africa.
European Union Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva says the awareness effort by the professional players alone causes a spike in contributions to non-governmental organizations working to alleviate hunger.
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A customer tries out Apple's iPad 2 at a retail shop in Chongqing, China, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. The Taiwan-based maker Proview Electronics said Monday it is now seeking to regain worldwide rights to the iPad name and is suing Apple Inc. for alleged fraud and unfair competition. (AP Photo)
A customer tries out Apple's iPad 2 at a retail shop in Chongqing, China, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. The Taiwan-based maker Proview Electronics said Monday it is now seeking to regain worldwide rights to the iPad name and is suing Apple Inc. for alleged fraud and unfair competition. (AP Photo)
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) ? A Chinese court on Wednesday began hearing Apple's appeal of a ruling against its right to use the iPad trademark in China.
Apple Inc. is in several legal battles with Proview Electronics Co., which the U.S. company says sold it the rights to the iPad trademark in 10 different countries, including China, in 2009. Apple contends that Proview has refused to honor the agreement and has not indicated any willingness to settle with Proview, a maker of computer monitors and LED lights.
Walking into the Guangdong High Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, lawyers for Proview expressed confidence, but also indicated the company remained open to settling with Apple.
"I don't rule out the possibility," Xie Xianghui, a lawyer representing Shenzhen Proview Technology, the company's main Chinese subsidiary, told reporters.
On Tuesday, Proview announced it was seeking to regain worldwide rights to the iPad name and is suing Apple Inc. in the U.S. for alleged fraud and unfair competition, hoping to have a 2009 sale of the trademark ruled void. Proview was previously only claiming rights to the iPad name in China.
Apart from having the trademark sale voided, it also is seeking unspecified compensation, a share of Apple's profits from alleged "unfair competition" and an order for Apple to stop using the trademarks.
So far, two lower courts in Guangdong have sided with Proview on the issue, while a Hong Kong court ruled in Apple's favor. Last week, Shanghai's High Court rejected Proview's effort to get Apple to stop selling the popular tablet computer under the iPad name.
Proview, once a major computer monitor manufacturer, launched a device it called iPAD, or Internet Personal Access Device, in 2000 but it was not a market hit. Apple launched its popular iPad tablet in 2010.
Proview contends Apple intentionally misled it when it bought iPad trademarks through a special purpose company called IP Application Development Ltd. that concealed it was acting on Apple's behalf.
Experts in the high-tech field say such tactics are common given the secrecy surrounding new product launches, especially Apple's.
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AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed from Shanghai. Annie Ho contributed to this story.
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Greek lawmakers are to vote on a package of tough salary and pension cuts as part of measures needed to secure the payout of the debt-ridden country's second international package of bailout loans. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Greek lawmakers are to vote on a package of tough salary and pension cuts as part of measures needed to secure the payout of the debt-ridden country's second international package of bailout loans. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Greek lawmakers are to vote on a package of tough salary and pension cuts as part of measures needed to secure the payout of the debt-ridden country's second international package of bailout loans. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Greek President Karolos Papoulias, right, greets European Parliament President Martin Schulz, during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Athens on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Schulz warned in an interview Tuesday that a disorderly default in Greece would create a "domino effect" in the rest of the eurozone. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Greek lawmakers are to vote on a package of tough salary and pension cuts as part of measures needed to secure the payout of the debt-ridden country's second international package of bailout loans. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, right, speaks during a parliament session next to Deputy Finance Minister Filippos Sahinidis, center, and Labour Minister George Koutroumanis, left, in Athens, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Greek lawmakers are to vote on a package of tough salary and pension cuts as part of measures needed to secure the payout of the debt-ridden country's second international package of bailout loans.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Greece's Parliament late on Tuesday approved new cuts in public sector pensions and government spending required to secure a second package of international rescue loans.
Lawmakers voted 202-80 in favor of cutbacks worth a total euro3.2 billion ($4.31 billion) and aimed at bringing the 2012 budget back in line with targets. Lawmakers from both parties in Prime Minister Lucas Papademos' coalition, the majority Socialists and the conservatives, backed the legislation.
Earlier, the debt-crippled country's Cabinet decided to apply recent labor reforms, including deep cuts to the minimum wage, retroactively to Feb. 14.
Greece is obliged to adopt a series of austerity measures and reforms before it can receive any funds from its new euro130 billion ($174 billion) package of rescue loans from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.
The bailout, and accompanying bond swap deal with private creditors, are meant to save the country from a potentially catastrophic default in late March that could drag down other financially vulnerable countries and threaten the European Union's joint currency, the euro.
The rescue package is Greece's second in less than two years. The country has been surviving since May 2010 on funds from a first bailout from the eurozone and IMF, and has received euro73 billion ($98 billion) from the initially approved euro110 billion ($147 billion) package.
But more than two years of harsh austerity implemented to secure the rescue funds have taken a hefty toll on the recession-bound Greek economy, with businesses closing in the tens of thousands and unemployment at a record high 21 percent.
"It is dramatic to cut someone's pensions. ... But why do we have to take these measures? Because our budget is still running at a loss," Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said in Parliament. "We are still adding debt to our debt. And if we do not start to generate a primary surplus next year, that will be catastrophic."
The newly approved legislation imposes nearly euro400 million ($538 million) in cuts to already depleted pensions.
Health and education spending will be reduced by more than euro170 million ($229 million), subsidies to the state health care system will be cut by euro500 million ($673 million), and health care spending on medicine will fall by euro570 million ($767 million).
Furthermore, some euro400 million ($538 million) will be lopped off defense spending ? three quarters of which will come from purchases.
The law also revises the 2012 budget, changing the government deficit target to 6.7 percent of gross domestic product from an initial forecast of 5.4 percent.
Measures approved by Papademos' Cabinet earlier Tuesday include a 22 percent cut in the minimum salary, currently at euro751 ($1,010) per month, for private sector workers, and a 32 percent cut for workers under the age of 25, where the rate of unemployment is nearly 50 percent.
Limits also are being imposed on collective wage agreements and the process of labor arbitration, with some measures to remain in effect until overall unemployment falls below 10 percent.
Lawmakers are to vote again on Wednesday on another bill implementing cuts that have previously been announced.
The new wave of austerity measures have sparked widespread anger among a public that has seen its income and living standards drop with no clear end to the crisis in sight.
On Tuesday, about 100 uniformed police, coast guard and fire service unionists protested pay cuts outside Parliament, with a small group burning a wartime military German flag used in the Nazi era in 1935-1945. While Germany is a major contributor to both Greek bailouts, Berlin's insistence on an austerity-based cure for the country's financial woes has angered many Greeks.
Papademos, a technocrat heading Greece's temporary coalition government, is to head to Brussels for a meeting Wednesday with European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso.
Greece's European partners have been pressing the country to implement the measures it has already passed, after repeated delays and missed targets over the last two years eroded trust in the ability of Greece's politicians to stick to their pledges.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz was in Athens on Tuesday for a series of meetings, and he gave a speech in Parliament stressing that "Greece must remain in the euro."
"We must do everything we can to prevent the collapse of the euro," he said, adding that more emphasis must be put on measures to promote growth rather than only on cutbacks.
"A policy based solely on austerity spells economic disaster," he told Greek deputies.
"Budgetary prudence is certainly essential (but) ... there is too much focus on financial penalties and austerity packages," Schulz said, adding that economic growth could be stifled in many European countries.
"How are countries whose economies are at a standstill, which are facing a recession, supposed to pay off their debts? Greece has already paid a high price. It cannot go on paying," he said.
On Monday, the Standard & Poor's ratings agency downgraded Greece's credit rating to "selective default" over a debt writedown deal with private creditors that is an integral part of the second bailout.
The downgrade had been widely expected, as ratings agencies had said the bond swap with private creditors, which seeks to cut euro107 billion ($144 billion) off Greece's debt, would constitute a selective default. Once the swap is carried out next month, the agencies are expected to upgrade Greece.
Late Tuesday, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association said it has accepted for consideration a question relating to a potential credit event with respect to Greece. An ISDA statement said a meeting will be held at 1100GMT on Thursday to determine whether a credit event has occurred.
The decision by the New York-based trade association, which represents hundreds of banks and other companies, will ultimately determine whether the bond swap will trigger payment of insurance taken by investors against a Greek default.
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Derek Gatopoulos and AP Television in Athens contributed.
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Ice Age coyotes were supersized compared to coyotes today, fossil study revealsPublic release date: 27-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robin Ann Smith rsmith@nescent.org 919-668-4544 National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Coyotes probably shrunk due to dwindling food supply, rather than warming climate, researchers say
Durham, NC Coyotes today are pint-sized compared to their Ice Age counterparts, finds a new fossil study. Between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago a mere blink of an eye in geologic terms coyotes shrunk to their present size. The sudden shrinkage was most likely a response to dwindling food supply and changing interactions with competitors, rather than warming climate, researchers say.
In a paper appearing this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers studied museum collections of coyote skeletons dating from 38,000 years ago to the present day. It turns out that between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago, at the end of a period called the Pleistocene, coyotes in North America suddenly got smaller.
"Pleistocene coyotes probably weighed between 15-25 kilograms, and overlapped in size with wolves. But today the upper limit of a coyote is only around 10-18 kilograms," said co-author Julie Meachen of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina.
"Within just over a thousand years, they evolved into the smaller coyotes that we have today," she added.
What caused coyotes to shrink? Several factors could explain the shift. One possibility is warming climate, the researchers say. Between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago, global average annual temperatures quickly rose by an average of six degrees. "Things got a long warmer, real fast," Meachen said.
Large animals are predicted to fare worse than small animals when temperatures warm up. To find out if climate played a role in coyotes' sudden shrinkage, Meachen and co-author Joshua Samuels of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon measured the relationship between body size and temperature for dozens of Ice Age coyotes, and for coyotes living today, using thigh bone circumference to estimate body size for each individual.
But when they plotted body size against coldest average annual temperature for each animal's location, they found no relationship, suggesting that climate change was unlikely to be the main factor.
If the climate hypothesis is true, then we should see similar changes in other Ice Age carnivores too, Meachen added. The researchers also studied body size over time in the coyote's larger relative, the wolf, but they found that wolf body sizes didn't budge. "We're skeptical that climate change at the end of the Pleistocene was the direct cause of the size shift in coyotes," Meachen said.
Another possibility is that humans played a role. In this view, coyotes may have shrunk over time because early human hunters believed to have arrived in North America around 13,000 years ago selectively wiped out the bigger coyotes, or the animals coyotes depended on for food, leaving only the small to survive. Stone tool butchery marks on Ice Age animal bones would provide a clue that human hunters had something to do with it, but the fossil record has turned up too few examples to test the idea. "Human hunting as the culprit is really hard to dispute or confirm because there's so little data," Meachen said.
A third, far more likely explanation, is dwindling food supply and changing interactions with competitors, the researchers say. Just 1000 years before the sudden shrinkage in coyotes, dozens of other species were wiped out in a wave of extinctions that killed off many large mammals in North America. Until then, coyotes lived alongside a great diversity of large prey, including horses, sloths, camels, llamas and bison. "There were not only a greater diversity of prey species, but the species were also more abundant. It was a great food source," Meachen said.
While coyotes survived the extinctions, there were fewer large prey left for them to eat. Smaller individuals that required less food to survive, or could switch to smaller prey, would have had an advantage.
Before the die-off, coyotes also faced stiff competition for food from other large carnivores, including a bigger version of wolves living today called the dire wolf. After bigger carnivores such as dire wolves went extinct, coyotes would have no longer needed their large size to compete with these animals for food.
The findings are important because they show that extinction doesn't just affect the animals that disappear, the researchers say it has long-term effects on the species that remain as well.
"In a time of increasing loss of biodiversity, understanding the degree to which species interactions drive evolutionary change is important," says Saran Twombly, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Environmental Biology, which supported the research.
"Species interactions are delicate balancing acts. When species go extinct, we see the signature of the effects on the species that remain," Meachen said.
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CITATION: Meachen, J. and J. Samuels (2012). "Evolution in coyotes (Canis latrans) in response to the megafaunal extinctions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is a nonprofit science center dedicated to cross-disciplinary research in evolution. Funded by the National Science Foundation, NESCent is jointly operated by Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. For more information about research and training opportunities at NESCent, visit www.nescent.org.
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Ice Age coyotes were supersized compared to coyotes today, fossil study revealsPublic release date: 27-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robin Ann Smith rsmith@nescent.org 919-668-4544 National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Coyotes probably shrunk due to dwindling food supply, rather than warming climate, researchers say
Durham, NC Coyotes today are pint-sized compared to their Ice Age counterparts, finds a new fossil study. Between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago a mere blink of an eye in geologic terms coyotes shrunk to their present size. The sudden shrinkage was most likely a response to dwindling food supply and changing interactions with competitors, rather than warming climate, researchers say.
In a paper appearing this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers studied museum collections of coyote skeletons dating from 38,000 years ago to the present day. It turns out that between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago, at the end of a period called the Pleistocene, coyotes in North America suddenly got smaller.
"Pleistocene coyotes probably weighed between 15-25 kilograms, and overlapped in size with wolves. But today the upper limit of a coyote is only around 10-18 kilograms," said co-author Julie Meachen of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina.
"Within just over a thousand years, they evolved into the smaller coyotes that we have today," she added.
What caused coyotes to shrink? Several factors could explain the shift. One possibility is warming climate, the researchers say. Between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago, global average annual temperatures quickly rose by an average of six degrees. "Things got a long warmer, real fast," Meachen said.
Large animals are predicted to fare worse than small animals when temperatures warm up. To find out if climate played a role in coyotes' sudden shrinkage, Meachen and co-author Joshua Samuels of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon measured the relationship between body size and temperature for dozens of Ice Age coyotes, and for coyotes living today, using thigh bone circumference to estimate body size for each individual.
But when they plotted body size against coldest average annual temperature for each animal's location, they found no relationship, suggesting that climate change was unlikely to be the main factor.
If the climate hypothesis is true, then we should see similar changes in other Ice Age carnivores too, Meachen added. The researchers also studied body size over time in the coyote's larger relative, the wolf, but they found that wolf body sizes didn't budge. "We're skeptical that climate change at the end of the Pleistocene was the direct cause of the size shift in coyotes," Meachen said.
Another possibility is that humans played a role. In this view, coyotes may have shrunk over time because early human hunters believed to have arrived in North America around 13,000 years ago selectively wiped out the bigger coyotes, or the animals coyotes depended on for food, leaving only the small to survive. Stone tool butchery marks on Ice Age animal bones would provide a clue that human hunters had something to do with it, but the fossil record has turned up too few examples to test the idea. "Human hunting as the culprit is really hard to dispute or confirm because there's so little data," Meachen said.
A third, far more likely explanation, is dwindling food supply and changing interactions with competitors, the researchers say. Just 1000 years before the sudden shrinkage in coyotes, dozens of other species were wiped out in a wave of extinctions that killed off many large mammals in North America. Until then, coyotes lived alongside a great diversity of large prey, including horses, sloths, camels, llamas and bison. "There were not only a greater diversity of prey species, but the species were also more abundant. It was a great food source," Meachen said.
While coyotes survived the extinctions, there were fewer large prey left for them to eat. Smaller individuals that required less food to survive, or could switch to smaller prey, would have had an advantage.
Before the die-off, coyotes also faced stiff competition for food from other large carnivores, including a bigger version of wolves living today called the dire wolf. After bigger carnivores such as dire wolves went extinct, coyotes would have no longer needed their large size to compete with these animals for food.
The findings are important because they show that extinction doesn't just affect the animals that disappear, the researchers say it has long-term effects on the species that remain as well.
"In a time of increasing loss of biodiversity, understanding the degree to which species interactions drive evolutionary change is important," says Saran Twombly, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Environmental Biology, which supported the research.
"Species interactions are delicate balancing acts. When species go extinct, we see the signature of the effects on the species that remain," Meachen said.
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CITATION: Meachen, J. and J. Samuels (2012). "Evolution in coyotes (Canis latrans) in response to the megafaunal extinctions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is a nonprofit science center dedicated to cross-disciplinary research in evolution. Funded by the National Science Foundation, NESCent is jointly operated by Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. For more information about research and training opportunities at NESCent, visit www.nescent.org.
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The film has been praised for its multifaceted view of family relationships. George Clooney portrays a wealthy trial attorney, Matt King, who is forced to examine relationships with his immediate family, extended relatives, and ultimately look back to his ancestors who settled in Hawaii. A sub-plot of the film is King's struggle as the trustee of his family's dynasty trust, which is coming to an end soon.
The family trust owns a prime acreage of Kauai oceanfront, and Clooney must decide between selling the land or keeping the land in the family somehow. The legal issues, though based on Hawaii state law, surrounding the trust are quite accurate.
Although Houston's estate laws are different than those of Hawaii, the film dramatizes several very important estate planning issues that may be of importance to Houston residents.
? Trusts: Throughout the film, King struggles with decisions about the trust. One troubling issue with this trust is that it is a long-term trust, which makes it difficult to for the beneficiaries to discern the wishes of the person who drafted the trust. The legal issues of how long a trust can last and joint-ownership of land also are presented in this film. Joint ownership of land can be very difficult because when a trust awards land to multiple people, it is often very difficult for them to agree on how to proceed. The lead character also struggles with the issue that he and his cousins did not do anything to earn the wealth that they have inherited. Many of these issues can be examined during estate planning in order to mitigate several of these problems.
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Source: Forbes, "'The Descendants' Buries Estate Planning Lessons in George Clooney Drama," Deborah L. Jacobs, Feb. 23, 2012
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Perhaps you are considering becoming a certified nursing assistant or CNA. This can be an excellent career decision. In the coming years, there should be high demand for many kinds of health care related jobs. You may be able to take your pick from many good career opportunities. Here is more information for this profession.
A CNA is a health care professional who assists nurses with many of their duties. This may include helping patients with daily needs such as bathing, dressing, and eating. You may be called upon to assist patients with exercise programs or provide nutritional information. There are many different activities in these kinds of jobs.
Before you begin certified nursing assistant training you will have some prerequisites to consider. For example, you need at least a high school education. It is best to take a CNA course at your local community college or vocational school. Some of these courses can be completed in one semester. When you apply you may need to have a background check and basic training in things like CPR.
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CNA income varies depending on the nature of the work. The average wage for this kind of work is around $24,000 annually, but some earn in excess of $34,000. Those working in employment services can earn a little over $26,000 per year. A certified nursing assistant in surgical hospitals earn close to $27,000 a year.
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As the population continues to age, there is going to be a huge demand for elderly health care in the near future. Also, people are living longer thanks to modern medical technology. An aging population means a high number of people leaving the profession in the coming decade. All of these things make a career as a CNA, a safe employment investment in the future. Certified nursing assistant statistical numbers come from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010.
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Even after the start of 2012, the model FMLA certification and notification forms provided by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) still carried an expriation date of Dec. 31, 2011. In those first few weeks of the year, the DOL said employers could continue to use those outdated forms.
But now the DOL has released new updated forms that won?t expire for three more years. These new forms carry an expiration date of Feb. 28, 2015 in the upper right corner.? Employers can use these DOL forms directly in their organizations, or they can use the forms as models and create their own versions.
These ?updated? versions, however, did not include any substantive changes, only the expiration date. That was somewhat of a surprise because the DOL did not use this opportunity to fix a pair of key shortcomings on their FMLA forms. Those shortcomings (which will likely be addressed in newly updated FMLA forms released later in 2012) include:
1) Any references to the additional FMLA rights provided under the 2010 amendments for military family leave.
2) Any reference to the ?safe harbor? privacy language required under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). The law says that employers who request medical certifications from employees must instruct health care providers not to collect or provide any genetic information about the person.
For that reason, it?s wise to add language to your FMLA medical certification forms. The EEOC has suggested that employers add this language to any form that requests health-related information from their employees:
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) prohibits employers and other entities covered by GINA Title II from requesting or requiring genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, except as specifically allowed by this law. To comply with this law, we are asking that you not provide any genetic information when responding to this request for medical information. ?Genetic information,? as defined by GINA, includes an individual?s family medical history, the results of an individual?s or family member?s genetic tests, the fact that an individual or an individual?s family member sought or received genetic services, and genetic information of a fetus carried by an individual or an individual?s family member or an embryo lawfully held by an individual or family member receiving assistive reproductive services.
If you provide this type of warning and follow the other GINA rules,, the EEOC says, ?any genetic information the entity acquires will be considered inadvertent.? Thus, this wording attached to your FMLA forms helps create a ?safe harbor? for employers.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the Apple iPhone 4 at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Friday, July 16, 2010.
By Athima Chansanchai
If you were one of about 21 million people who bought an iPhone 4 in the first half of 2010, you may now claim one of two choices in a recent settlement of a class action lawsuit against Apple for its flawed smartphone antenna:?a free bumper case (which was offered in 2010 when "Antennagate" raged throughout the land) or $15.
We know, it seems like a pittance for all the angst over the controversy, which turned already rabid Apple fanboys and girls into "Quarantine"-level homicidal maniacs in defense of their precious iPhone 4, even as researchers proved there was something to how user grips contributed to dropped calls. "Antennagate" also stirred more animosity as?Consumer Reports' refused to recommend the iPhone 4, despite it earning its highest score in the smartphone category.
As the Rothken law firm pointed out:
The alleged design defects include the antenna embedded in the case, when used and handled?in the normal and ordinary course, caused a degraded signal and dropped calls. In addition, software that?was meant to provide the display of the strength of the mobile signal via "bars" was programmed in a defective manner.?
Ira Rothken tweeted the update Friday: "We got preliminary approval of class action settlement in the iphone 4 antenna case today over 21 million class members 15 dollars or bumper."
CNET has the details on the settlement, which came from:
18 separate lawsuits that were consolidated into one. All share the claim that Apple was "misrepresenting and concealing material information in the marketing, advertising, sale, and servicing of its iPhone 4 ??particularly as it relates to the quality of the mobile phone antenna and reception and related software."
Emails will go out to purchasers before April 30, with the claims period open for 120 days.Apple is again giving free bumper cases to those who didn't take advantage of the offer in July 2010, with bumper cases then priced at $29 (with full refunds available to those who had already bought the case). A quick scan at Amazon shows they're now priced under $2 (including shipping).
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The Rothken firm is no stranger to tech-based class action lawsuits, as it has also in recent years filed class action lawsuits against T-Mobile, Microsoft, Sony and Carrier IQ, mostly as it pertains to privacy and sensitive data.?
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