Google denies problems, but finds could raise more questions over the safety of storing data in the cloud.

European Union lawmakers are close to agreement on how to update a package of telecom laws in light of recent advances in technology, European Commissioner Viviane Reding said Wednesday.

A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft that alleges the company misled consumers in a marketing campaign for its Windows Vista operating system in which computers sold with an older Microsoft OS were labeled 'Vista Capable' when in fact they could only run a basic version of Vista.

Attorneys representing Oracle in the company's lawsuit against rival SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary have for the first time publicly put a dollar figure -- "likely" $1 billion or more -- on the damages they believe the enterprise software maker deserves.

Seagate Technology filed a potentially far-reaching patent infringement lawsuit against STEC on Monday, over flash memory-based solid state drives (SSDs).

The war of words between Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab and rival Rising Tech, has intensified after Kaspersky slapped a defamation lawsuit on the Chinese antivirus provider following its recent controversial comments.

LG Electronics Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest contract manufacturer of laptop PCs over the infringement of four patents related to DVD (digital video disc) technology, the company said Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), the world's largest PC vendor, has filed another lawsuit against its fastest growing rival, Acer Inc., as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up.

The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.

Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, a security company's research said Monday.

Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies Ltd. is taking on Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sandisk Corp. with a patent-infringement lawsuit.

Mozilla Corp. updated Firefox Friday to patch 14 vulnerabilities, three of them critical, but pushed out the new versions without fixing several flaws.

More than 3,000 pieces of evidence in the antitrust lawsuit between Iowa consumers and Microsoft Corp. were posted to a public Web site late Thursday. Thousands more could be posted, pending a ruling from the presiding judge on objections raised by Microsoft.

Just as the number of Bluetooth device users passed the billion mark, a lawsuit threatens the momentum of the short range wireless technology.

Microsoft Corp. has initiated 97 lawsuits throughout Europe and the Middle East during its eight-month investigation into fraudulent Web pages, with another 32 criminal complaints filed in cooperation with local authorities, the company said Wednesday.

Toshiba Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have settled a number of outstanding lawsuits regarding alleged patent infringement and theft of trade secrets related to computer memory chips.

Microsoft Corp. has issued nine security updates addressing critical flaws in its Office and Windows products. The updates patch two worrisome PowerPoint flaws that could allow attackers to seize control of a PC, the company said Tuesday.

A net neutrality law isn't needed because the U.S. already has antitrust laws that would keep broadband carriers from acting in an uncompetitive manner, Internet pioneer David Farber said Monday in a debate against TCP/IP co-creator Vinton Cerf.

Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of pirated software in seven U.S. states, the company said Tuesday. Microsoft claims the companies sold pirated software or computers loaded with pirated software.

A Belgian company has refiled a lawsuit over search terms offered by Google Inc.'s toolbar that directs users to pirated software.