An Atlanta software company is suing a former salesman who falsely claimed his 3-year-old son had cancer, and collected benefits for months. Lancope Inc. tried to send flowers after being told Michael Ruffalo's son had died. The salesman said his son had cancer shortly after he was hired as a salesman, and was given paid leave. A judge turned down a defense request to dismiss the suit, which seeks $40,151 in salary plus unspecified punitive damages.

Some Silicon Valley techies have turned to regularly meeting for a vicious real-life, underground fight club. They beat each other relentlessly in a garage using household items.

A Southern California oceanfront home is pegged at $75 million for sale listing price, Tuesday. An analyst with the National Association of Realtors told Reuters that the 30,000-square-foot custom-built estate belongs to Frank Pritt, founder of software company Attachmate Corp. The estate features a car museum, entertainment complex, gymnasium and mini water park.

Organizers of the video game industry's annual trade show order women manning the booths to cover up. Reuters reports that nudity, partial nudity, bikini bottom or any sexually explicit or provocative conducts are banned from the E3 Expo.

Former Microsoft software developer Charles Simonyi is set to become a space tourist for a visit to the International Space Station (ISS), the orbital tourism firm Space Adventures reported. Simonyi, 58, will ride a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS where he will stay in fairly low star accommodation for a week.