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Beware the unmanaged risk of e-mail and IM

According to a recent survey, 65 percent of companies lack e-mail retention policies. Only 54 percent of the corporations surveyed conduct any kind of formal e-mail policy training. One in five U.S. companies has had employee e-mail subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation. ...

Tags: Lawsuit, IM, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Online Communications, Internet, Toni Bowers

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Will IT soon be facing malpractice suits for failed projects?

This is a guest post from Larry Dignan right. You can read the original article on Larry's blog Between the Lines on TechRepublic's sister site ZDNet. Does Waste Management's lawsuit against SAP indicate the beginning of a bevy of IT malpractice suits? TechRepublic's...

Tags: Lawsuit, Information Technology, Programming, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Project failures may soon carry legal risks for programmers

Project disasters come with the territory in IT. Some observers including me pessimistically believe that the majority of IT projects fail to meet their original goals. All too often, "descope and declare victory" is the only possible way to end a project. Part of the problem is that, regardless of...

Tags: Project, Lawsuit, Information Technology, Programmer, Programming, Programming Project, Development Tools, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Justin James

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Judge opens door for "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit

December 2006 was a great time to buy a new computer. Intel and AMD had some great choices in the market, and you could buy the XP OEM experience with the knowledge that if the computer was certified “Windows Vista Capable,” you could easily upgrade. There were many...

Tags: Lawsuit, Microsoft Windows Vista, Class Action, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Busybox wraps up second lawsuit against Xterasys

Programmers behind Busybox have settled a second lawsuit, this time against Xterasys, for violating a GPL license. According CNET News.com: "As a result of the settlement, Xterasys has agreed to cease all binary distribution of BusyBox until SFLC confirms it has published complete corresponding source...

Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, Source Code, Compliance, Programmer, Busybox, Xterasys, Open Source, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Microsoft files multiple lawsuits around the world on WGA evidence

Microsoft has filed 52 lawsuits around the world, in addition to referring another 22 cases to law enforcement agencies in 22 different countries. This is part of its global antipiracy efforts, with all 74 cases involving either Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office. According to Ars Technica:...

Tags: Lawsuit, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Piracy, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Yahoo settles lawsuit concerning Chinese journalists

Yahoo settled the lawsuit filed by family members of Chinese journalists after the Internet company was found accountable for their imprisonment. An excerpt from BusinessWeek: Yahoo also is establishing a fund to provide humanitarian and legal aid to people serving prison sentences for expressing their opinions...

Tags: Lawsuit, Yahoo! Inc., Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Monsoon GPL infringement lawsuit draws to a close

The landmark lawsuit brought against Monsoon Multimedia by the Software Freedom Law Center SFLC on behalf of the two principal developers of BusyBox has come to a close. The case is significant in that it marks the first time in the United States that a...

Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, BusyBox, Open Source, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-01

First lawsuit on GPL violation filed

Network World has news of what may well be the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States. Excerpt from the article: The SFLC filed the suit on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Monsoon Multimedia...

Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, Source Code, Network World, Suit, Open Source, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-09-23

SCO loses major court ruling in UNIX lawsuit

SCO's lawsuit to stake a claim to UNIX and therefore Linux has foundered, as a federal court ruled Friday that open-source-advocate Novell owns the rights to the core programming underlying both UNIX and Linux. U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball ruled SCO must allow Novell to let...

Tags: Lawsuit, SCO Group Inc., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, John Bartley K7AAY

Blog posts 2007-08-12

A first look at the Ion iTTUSB turntable

A long, long time ago, in an era before MP3s, CD-ROMs, and RIAA lawsuits, vinyl was the medium of choice for music lovers around the world. If you are old enough to remember those days you are also probably the proud-owner of a few vinyl records that you wish you...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, ION-iTTUSB, vinyl record, wish, MP3, treasure, RIAA, CD-ROM, open-source software, lawsuit, Apple iPod, photograph, software

Image galleries 2007-08-01

SAP admits to Oracle's charge of inappropriate downloads

Hot from Bloomberg, SAP AG, the world's largest maker of business-management software, has came clean and admitted it made "inappropriate" downloads of Oracle's documents, in response to a lawsuit that claims it stole files belonging to Oracle. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said on a conference call today:...

Tags: Lawsuit, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Images: Now playing on a Google site near you

Viacom's movie works continue to appear on Gooogle-owned video sites despite the $1 billion copyright lawsuit the media conglomerate filed against Google.

Tags: Google Inc., Viacom Inc., lawsuit, movie, media, video

Image galleries 2007-06-11

Permanently deleting files at work could result in a lawsuit

Before you permanently delete a file at work, you should know that it could potentially come back to bite you in the butt. Check out this news story: "Police blotter: Ex-employee sued for deleting files."According to the article, "The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA says whoever 'knowingly causes damage...

Tags: Lawsuit, File, Computer, Productivity, E-mail, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Sonja Thompson

Blog posts 2007-03-29

HP accused of spying on Dell's printer plans

Former HP executive files countersuitKarl Kamb Jr., a former HP executive who has been sued by the company, filed a countersuit that claims HP wanted him to steal trade secrets about rival Dell's printer plans. The complaints in the countersuit come just months after HP engaged in the illegal practice...

Tags: dell, Dell Computer Corp., feedback, Hewlett-Packard Co., hp, it management, lawsuit, news, printer, Sonja Thompson

Discussion threads 2007-01-25

How GPL fits in with the future of antitrust regulation

small error"[i]They only are precluded from charging for making derivative works.[/i]"That's not strictly accurate. They're precluded from charging more than distribution costs for access to the source code when a binary has already been dist

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, apotheon, GNU/Linux, GPL, business model

Discussion threads 2006-11-27

Woman claims Wi-Fi makes her sick

Woman blames Wi-Fi for getting sick, how long before an ambulance chaser?It would seem that people on average are as gullible as ever to junk science and snake oil. Now we have a woman that claims she can detect the presence of Wi-Fi radio waves an

Tags: Wireless LANs, george_ou@...

Discussion threads 2006-11-24

Freakish resume makes the rounds of Wall Street

Kudos to Mr Vayner! When is the lawsuit coming?Well, well, well. Somebody has the right idea, I think. Sure, I'm a traditionalist, but if someone sent me an 11 page Rez with Video and went to Yale you can bet he/she would get an interview. I...

Tags: career, feedback, lawsuit, PatriciaT, video

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Class action suit over ID theft tossed out

Judge says proof is needed of misuse in ID fraud casesA judge in Arkansas has thrown out a class action lawsuit that said data broker Acxiom was negligent when a server suffered a security break-in. The decision could prove influential in other iden

Tags: lawsuit, Sonja Thompson, identity theft, id theft, news, security, class action, credit history, data mining

Discussion threads 2006-10-12

Follow-up on Blog Lawsuit

http://www.mainewebreport.com/2006/05/05/warren-kremer-paino-withdraws-lawsuit/The quote below is from the original post on mainewebreport that got my attention."Warren Kremer Paino Advertising has filed a 3 count multi-million dollar federal lawsuit against me for the reporting I've done in this blog. They are claiming defamation, libel, and copyright infringement." I was watching www.mainewebreport.com for developments,...

Tags: blog, blogs, edited out, good news, HaveFun_Peace, ItsTheInThingToDo, lawsuit, MWR, NB_HaveFun_Peace, NeverBusted, off-topic, Ol' NB, OnTheRopes, posting, WKPA

Discussion threads 2006-05-08