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Creative Backs Down, Reinstates Spurned Developer

Creative Labs heard your chest-beating across the internet and decided to reinstate spurned developer Daniel_K less than a week after booting him from their forums. Unlike Creative, Daniel_K issued drivers that allowed Creative sound cards to work properly under Vista, and even enabled previously crippled features. The drivers were downloaded over 100,000 times. The company thanked the developer by accusing him of "enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, [in] effect, stealing our goods." Even though he has been reinstated, Daniel_K is still pissed. More »

11:39 AM on Sat Apr 5 2008
By Carey
7,006 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: I bought a copy of Vista premium and installed it as a dual boot with win XP on my PC. I had massive amounts of static and audio corruption on my SB Audigy 2. So I switched over more »

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Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence Third-Party Programmer

Creative's executive team will be coming in to quite a mess Monday morning, thanks to its VP of Screw Ups, Phil O'Shaughnessy. Friday morning, he posted a warning on the Creative customer forums that told programmer Daniel_K to stop writing his own drivers for their X-Fi sound cards. The cards still won't work on Vista over a year after the OS was released, because Creative hasn't released drivers for them—but by Mr. O'Shaughnessy's account, Daniel_K is "stealing" from Creative by making the cards work. Then the weekend happened. More »

2:07 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Chris Walters
103,328 views, 140 comments

Latest by Kevin V: creative: jerks. more »

cingular

NONUPDATE: Cingular Wants to Yank Docs

screwcingularsmaller.jpgSince Cingular legal counsel sent us a note Friday demanding we call and take down some internal documents, nothing has happened. They told us to call. We didn't call. Instead, we insulted their note. Other sites picked up and popularized the story. Nary a further Cingular peep. Not even a full cease and desist. Sigh. We feel a little left at the altar. More »

12:49 AM on Wed Aug 2 2006
By Ben Popken
114 views, 1 comment

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Cingular Wants To Yank Docs From Consumerist

cingularbandit100.jpgHere is the note Cingular's legal counsel sent us to take down documents we posted. The items have info about how Cingular determines a customer's "long term value" or "LTV." This LTV is used to determine how many discounts they will give you to prevent you from cancelling your account. More »

10:24 AM on Fri Jul 28 2006
By Ben Popken
303 views, 18 comments

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Cingular Wants Us To Take Their Documents Down

We just received a note from Cingular's legal department. More »