- Tue Dec 29 2009 E-tail Scrooges and how one woman defeated them
This is no "It's a Wonderful Life," but the thousands stung by Web marketing practices now under government scrutiny may find it a feel-good story anyway.
- Mon Jun 18 2007 Dell apologizes for remove-this-blog-post-or-else nastygram
A blog post at Consumerist.com offering tips on buying from Dell draws a nasty cease-and-desist letter from the company's attorney--and then a chastened apology from a Dell manager.
- Tue Feb 24 2009 Google apologizes for Gmail outage
Gmail stopped working early Tuesday morning. The company promises paying customers 99.9 percent uptime for the Webmail service.
- Mon May 12 2003 RIAA apologizes for threatening letter
The Recording Industry Association of America apologizes to Penn State University for sending an incorrect legal notice of alleged Internet copyright violations.
- Tue May 13 2003 RIAA apologizes for erroneous letters
The music industry trade group acknowledges it wrongly sent dozens of copyright infringement notices, and says it's sorry.
- Mon Nov 19 2001 Microsoft apologizes in security flap
The company says it knew about an Internet Explorer flaw--and failed to issue a fix--a week before it accused a security company of putting IE users at risk by revealing the hole.
- Mon May 20 2002 Siebel: No time for apologies
Brash software CEO Tom Siebel explains why homeland security takes precedence over personal privacy and why enterprise app makers are screwing up big time.
- Fri Jun 15 2007 Flickr curtails German photo sharing
Flickr limits German-speaking users to seeing only photos marked "safe" to comply with German law, but hopes to fix the situation soon.
- Fri Oct 29 2004 Oracle sex suit winner seeks $679,000, apology
Former IT sales account manager in England seeks compensation after winning her gender discrimination case.
- Fri Dec 15 2000 Band posts songs as apology for Napster ban
Rage Against The Machine is offering an olive branch to fans angry about being booted from Napster, posting a long list of otherwise unavailable songs and videos to its Web site.




