Microsoft has started letting developers build and release applications for Windows Phone 7 using Visual Basic, potentially opening the door to more applications on the new smartphone platform.

China will investigate and prosecute Google next July if the search engine company does not acquire the necessary state license to operate its Google Maps service in the country, according to the government.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

A jury has awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP.

The former CEO of networking software company Comverse Technology has agreed to forfeit US$46 million to help cover shareholder lawsuits against the company he founded.

SAP has admitted to the "massive and prolonged" infringement of Oracle's copyrights and should pay at least US$1.7 billion in damages, an Oracle attorney said Monday as the companies' corporate theft lawsuit entered its final stages.

Megértjük és elfogadjuk, ha nehéz helyzetbe került országok húsbavágó intézkedéseket kényszerülnek hozni, ám a magyar kormány által előzetes értesítés nélkül kivetett különadó hideg zuhanyként ért bennünket - nyilatkozta a legnagyobb hazai távközlési cég, a Magyar Telekom többségi tulajdonosa, a Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) igazgatótanácsának tagja, aki szerint Budapesten valószínűleg nincsenek tisztában azzal, hogy "Budapesten a szükségesnél több porcelánt törnek össze".

A San Ramon, California, man is facing charges he stole valuable technology from his former employer in hopes of building competitive location-aware products.

Motorola's mobile phone subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the world's largest software maker has infringed 16 of its patents in PC, mobile and server software, as well as Xbox products.

Oracle's potential damages in its corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP have been reduced by US$500 million following an order from Judge Phyllis Hamilton, SAP said on Tuesday.

Amazon.com plans to acquire Quidsi, the operator of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for US$500 million in cash to expand into baby care products and goods for everyday needs.

Mark Hurd may have tipped off former contractor Jodie Fisher about Hewlett-Packard's pending US$13.9 billion EDS acquisition, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Friday.

Cloud Sherpas, a provider of services and software for Google Apps, has closed a funding round worth US$1.6 million and will use the money in part to develop vertical-market applications for the cloud-hosted collaboration and communication suite.

Google on Tuesday said it won preliminary approval to settle a class-action lawsuit related to alleged privacy violations caused by its Buzz service.

Lawyers for Oracle and SAP made their opening arguments Tuesday in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, with each side giving a very different story to the jury about how damages in the case should be calculated.

• A Novell fő támogatásával rendezték meg Nürnbergben az openSUSE konferenciát, ahol a nyílt forráskódú közösség egyik legfontosabb kérdésére keresték a megoldást: hogyan lehet a fejlesztő csoportok együttműködését összehangolni a határokon át? • Az openSUSE konferencia további kiemelt témái: az openSUSE Build Service fejlesztői keretrendszer újdonságai, a Bretzn projekt bejelentése, a LibreOffice eredményeinek és az openSUSE KKV-knak szánt Invis Serverének bemutatása és az oktatás segítése

Google and a reseller of its products have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior after the agency solicited bids for cloud-based e-mail and messaging services specifying that bidders must use Microsoft products.

A former director of sales at HannStar Display of Taiwan has agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time for participating in a global conspiracy to fix the prices of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Oracle has updated its lawsuit against Google to allege that parts of its Android mobile phone software "directly copied" Oracle's Java code.