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Corporations are racing against time to create archives that allow retrieval of e-mails in response to increasingly common civil suit discovery motions.

ASX-listed digital marketing company BlueFreeway has completed agreements to acquire Viva9 and the BlueArc Group.

Lawsuits are a fact of life for organizations today. Recent surveys show that the average U.S. company faces 305 suits at any one time; that number jumps to 556 for companies with US$1 billion or more in revenue.

We've all worked with them at one time or another: people who are disruptive, abusive or otherwise demeaning or mean-spirited. In short, they're jerks. Incendiary co-workers are more than a workplace distraction, however. Indeed, a growing body of research is being conducted in the U.S. and Europe that examines the impact bullies have on productivity and financial performance. Thomas Hoffman spoke yesterday with Robert Sutton, the author of The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, which is scheduled to be published by Warner Business Books on Feb. 22, about his inspiration for the book and some of the lessons that managers can draw from it. Excerpts from that interview follow.

When it comes to the automation portion of a new data centre strategy, remember the desktop.

The home networking market has been touted by many as one of the last frontiers for integrators to get into, and while everyone has heard of the Internet fridge and the smart toaster, Cisco has teamed up with a host of other vendors to unveil its first fully networked house.

Your home may soon be as networked as your office. We look at the latest technologies, products, and gizmos to separate the help from the hype.

David Rynecki, Fortune

David Rynecki, Fortune

In 1950, science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury envisioned the creepy Happylife Home. "It clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them," he wrote. But Bradbury never thought of Internet-ready refrigerators. Some onlookers aren't sure why we're getting them now.

It seems as if almost everyone in the home appliances parade is marching to the tune of machines with smarts.