Jury deadlocks on key issue in Google-Oracle trial

A federal jury failed to agree on a pivotal issue in Oracle's copyright-infringement case against Google, blunting the impact of its finding that Google relied on another company's technology to build its popular Android ...

Oracle's net rises 36 percent, but servers slip

(AP) -- Stronger spending on business software helped Oracle Corp.'s quarterly profit jump 36 percent, but the company's server business further deteriorated, a decline Oracle attributed to its move to shed lower-margin ...

Microsoft may have found unlikely cash cow: Android

In the hunt for the next billion-dollar business, Microsoft Corp. may have discovered one in mobile software. It costs Microsoft nothing to produce and sell, and it's not Windows Phone.

Hackers talk their way into computers

Cyber crooks are avoiding the need for slick software skills by talking their way past computer defenses with old-fashioned telephone calls.

Rumor: Microsoft to possibly release a Windows 8 tablet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rumors are circulating around that Microsoft may be bringing a Windows 8 tablet to consumers in 2012. Reporters over at Digitimes have been theorizing, based on information from a chip-supplier, that the ...

Frog dissections go virtual at California school

(AP) -- A Southern California high school is taking the scalpel to frog dissections in biology class as it becomes the first U.S. school to take up animal welfare supporters' offer of free anatomy software.

Value of pirated software nearly $59 billion: study

The commercial value of pirated software increased 14 percent last year to nearly $59 billion, with emerging economies accounting for over half the total, according to a study published Thursday.

Appeals court ruling threatens used software sales

(AP) -- A federal appeals court has sided with the computer software industry in its effort to squelch sales of second-hand programs covered by widely used licensing agreements.

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