A bit of devious misdoings to report on now. Samsung Taiwan has been fined by the Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission over recent squabbles with HTC.
There are actually two accounts that Samsung Taiwan has been fined for one to do with false advertising of its Galaxy Y Duos camera, the other for hiring college students to start writing negative comments about HTC. The FTC issued a statement that confirmed the company had been organising an internet campaign in clear violation of the rules of fair trade. At the same time as writing about the HTC, the students were also praising Samsung’s products.
Little bit cheeky, that. The fines come in at $340,000, so it’s not exactly anything that’s going to shut the company down. Shocked that such things happen? Don’t be – do you really think every image of a phone that crops up early is actually ‘leaked’?
Source: Associated Press
