Worker Fired for Using Chat Room Sues IBM
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult  chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an  Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
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Lawyers for Compuware told a jury Wednesday that IBM stole its trade secrets as part of a plan to obliterate the Detroit-based company through unfair competition.
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By JIM FITZGERALD  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
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Neighbors of a former IBM  plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80 years that caused birth defects and cancer.
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Employers have been warned that they could be held liable for comments made by their employees on "blogs" or in chat rooms.
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An angry legal battle has broken out after an IBM server worth US$1.5 million was wrecked falling off a fork-lift truck being used to move it.
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An employee of bookseller chain Waterstone's has been fired for bringing the company into disrepute after he made entries on his weblog site identifying it in code as "B*****dstone's" and accusing it of slavery.
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In documents filed Friday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, IBM sought the dismissal of a major component of the lawsuit filed against it last year by The SCO Group.
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The computer maker is filing a lawsuit accusing a 19-year-old Harvard freshman of illegally misappropriating trade secrets on an Internet Web site.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Monday it fired a systems technician for intercepting text messages of non-Wal-Mart employees and recording telephone conversations with a New York Times reporter without authorization.
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IBM has filed a 100-page motion with a US district court in an attempt to have some of the claims made against it by The SCO Group dismissed.
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Company stumps up Â£118,000 after 'cream puff' slur Employers are liable for the effects that homophobic abuse masquerading as banter has on workers, according to an Employment Tribunal ruling.â¦
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p2pnet.net News:- IBM mainframe software vendor Compuware is suing IBM for antitrust violations claiming IBM used its source code without permission.
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SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. is seeking dismissal of a second major component of the lawsuit filed against it last year by Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc., according to court documents filed Friday by IBM. The documents, filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, argue that SCO's breach of contract allegations should be dismissed from the lawsuit.
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An Edinburgh man loses his job over comments made about his employer in an online diary, or "blog".
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A former Wal-Mart employee fired over an alleged conflict of interest accuses the firm's boss of also taking favours.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on  Monday it fired a systems technician for intercepting text  messages of non-Wal-Mart employees and recording telephone  conversations with a New York Times reporter without  authorization.