Now here’s what I call customer service gone wild: A Texas bank has decided to sue one of its commercial customers that was robbed by a gang of international cyberthieves. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cybertheives, Hillary Machinery Inc., lawsuit, PlainsCapital Bank, security, Texas
Talk about your activist judges. A federal district judge in Texas handed down a ruling that could rock Microsoft’s world: According to the court, the company can no longer sell its market-dominant word processing software. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: federal district court, judge, lawsuit, Leonard Davis, Microsoft, Texas, Word
Watch what you Tweet about, it could land you in legal trouble if it maligns someone else’s business. That’s what happened to a Chicago woman who used her Twitter account to complain about her “moldy” apartment. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Amanda Bonnen, Horizon Group Management LLC, lawsuit, mold, tweet, Twitter
I once knew a woman who, after a few too many cocktails, stepped off a curb and into traffic — forcing panicked motorists to Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cell phone, Department of Environmental Protection, lawsuit, manhole, Staten Island
Craigslist execs are heating up their battle to keep their ads for, ahem, “adult content” despite the very red state’s aversion to all things obscene or prostitution-related. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adult content, Craigslist, lawsuit, South Carolina
Well, Microsoft’s in the legal crosshairs yet again. This time, the software giant’s being sued for the fees computer buyers have to pay to get XP installed on their new systems instead of Vista. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: downgrade, lawsuit, Microsoft, operating system, Vista, XP
Just when you thought IT couldn’t get any stranger, along comes a lawsuit that blows your mind. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: application, development, Internet marketing, iphone, lawsuit
Don’t be surprised if your organization gets hit with a new kind of lawsuit sometime soon. The latest legal challenge: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: booting up, computer, lawsuit, pay, shutting down, time
Now’s a good time to caution supervisors and HR about being too quick to classify IT networking staffers as exempt from overtime under the FLSA. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Apple, classify, lawsuit, networking, staff
Can the stuff your firm’s employees do on their home computers end up costing you in court? That’s what’s happening to one company now. Read the rest of this entry »
