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Cybertheft victim gets sued by bank


February 1, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Compliance, Special Report, cybercrime, e-commerce, online banking

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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.

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Texas judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word


August 18, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Compliance, Hardware, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Software

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.

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‘Moldy’ Tweet could cost $50,000


July 30, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Web sites, social networking

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.

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Teen + texting + open manhole = $$$


July 13, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, Gadgets, Latest News & Views, cell phone, mobile technology, smartphones, social networking

I once knew a woman who, after a few too many cocktails, stepped off a curb and into traffic — forcing panicked motorists to

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Sleazy content wars: Craigslist v. South Carolina


May 22, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, Special Report, Web 2.0, Web sites, cybercrime, e-commerce

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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.

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Microsoft hit with downgrade suit


February 17, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Software, operating systems

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.

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Who can use ‘Pull my Finger’ on the Web?


February 16, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, Gadgets, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, e-commerce

Just when you thought IT couldn’t get any stranger, along comes a lawsuit that blows your mind.

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Do you owe workers for ‘booting up’ time?


November 24, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, Communication, Compliance, IT employment, Special Report

Don’t be surprised if your organization gets hit with a new kind of lawsuit sometime soon. The latest legal challenge:

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IT staff: The next big OT minefield?


November 13, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, Compliance, IT employment, Information security, Software, Special Report

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.

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Personal blog gets company sued


June 6, 2008 by Sam Narisi
Posted in: Compliance, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

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.

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