Google's Android software infringes on several patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired from Sun earlier this year, Oracle says in suit filed Thursday. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding ...

<b>week in review</b> Patent and copyright trial begins, while Microsoft makes Windows 8 names official. Also: Zuckerberg solos on Instagram acquisition. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...

Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies. Judge William Alsup of ...

The trial between Oracle and Google, accusing the latter of copying Java code, continued yesterday with an Oracle slide deck laying out its argument before the court moved on to hear lead witnesses ...

Thanks to recent deals with companies such as EA through the app stores offered by OEMs such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, game and app distributor Flexion has seen a significant boost in ...

This week, Dominik Gabi, Facebook software engineer said in a blog post that Mariana Trench was originally an internal tool for the company's security engineers but has now been released to the public ...

The justices will close their first week back on the bench by finally hearing argument in Google v Oracle. The case has been pending at the Supreme Court for almost two years; it originally was set ...

Oracle doesn't plan to make the key Java compatibility test suite available under licensing terms that are appropriate for Apache's Harmony project. IBM has responded by shifting its focus away from ...