Cingular and Travelocity settle over adware charges
Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:48PM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Business
If you are familiar with "adware", you'll know that it is installed on personal computers (almost always without consumer consent) to display advertising and popups that seem to take over the PC as if it were possessed.
Well, in a fist, marketers have been
held responsible for ads displayed through adware -- and the culprits include the largest mobile carrier in the U.S. -- Cingular (the wireless unit of AT&T), which will pay New York $35,000 to cover penalties and investigatory costs.
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1. Cingular (SBC) takes a first place in my Book of Crooks.
Posted at 1:04PM on Feb 24th 2008 by kosta