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Employee Handbooks: 5 Pitfalls

Although Employee Handbooks are a must for most employers, whether they have a binding effect is another story. California presumes the employer-employee relationship is “at-will” (i.e. employers and employees can sever the employment relationship at any time with or without a reason). Yet the reality is that employees can get around that presumption and assert …Read More

Rock Star Sues Web Hosts Over Video

March 9, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, the lead singer for the rock band Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst, has filed suit against ten Web site operators, almost all Web hosting and Internet service providers, for allegedly hosting footage of him in a homemade sex tape.

Verizon Faces Lawsuit Over Blocking

January 24, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A Philadelphia-based law firm has filed a lawsuit against Internet service provider Verizon (verizon.com) on behalf of a DSL subscriber and is inviting other Verizon customers to join a class action, according to a report by the Register.

Worldcom Directors Agree on Settlement

January 7, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, 10 former directors of telecommunications carrier and Web hosting provider Worldcom (worldcom.com) have agreed to pay a total of $54 million to settle parts of a class-action securities lawsuit that stems from the company’s accounting scandal, widely reputed to be the largest in history.

Spam King Ordered to Stop

January 5, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, a man known as the “Spam King” has been ordered to stop infecting computers with advertising programs until a federal lawsuit against him is resolved. Stanford Wallace and his companies, SmartBot.net Inc. of Richboro, Pennsylvania and Seismic Entertainment Productions Inc. of Rochester are required by the agreement to send online ads only to people who visit their Web sites.

SCO Web Site Defaced by Hacker

November 29, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), the home page of the SCO Web site (sco.com) was defaced by an attacker on Monday.

Switch and Data Ordered to Pay $10M

September 8, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications firm and data center operator Switch and Data was ordered by a jury in Travis County, Texas to pay more than $10 million for backing out of its lease for office space in downtown Austin, according to a report published last week in the Austin American-Statesman.

SCO Resellers Want Unix Support

August 3, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report in Ziff Davis Channel Zone, SCO (sco.com) resellers are more concerned with what SCO is doing with its Unix products than its ongoing legal battles over its claim that Unix code found in the Linux kernel violates its intellectual copyrights.

Mirror Image Sues Speedera Networks

June 7, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Mirror Image (mirror-image.com), an adaptive network for online content, application and transaction delivery, announced on Monday that it has filed a lawsuit against content delivery provider Speedera Networks (speedera.com), alleging patent infringement.

Switch and Data Sued by Node Com

May 25, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications carrier Switch and Data (switchanddata.com) is facing a $5 million lawsuit by Node Com (nodecom.com), a developer of data center facilities, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.