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• London hacker who posed as student gets suspended sentence

  A computer hacker who posed as a student to access a university computer room and steal the passwords of hundreds of students' email accounts was sentenced yesterday.

• Oracle-SAP case goes to jury to decide damages

  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.

• Tensions rise over damages at Oracle-SAP trial

  The Oracle-SAP trial ended its second week with some tense exchanges over how much SAP should pay in damages for the software theft committed by its TomorrowNow subsidiary.

• Google: Third parties liable for Java infringement, not us

  Third parties, not Google, would be liable for any Java copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, according to a filing the vendor made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

• Google denies 'line-for-line' Java copying for Android

  Google is denying Oracle's allegation that it directly copied lines of Oracle's Java code for its Android mobile OS, according to a court filing made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

• Microsoft sues Motorola over licensing terms

  <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/41761480">Microsoft sued Motorola on Tuesday in a Washington court</a>, alleging that Motorola is refusing to license patents on a reasonable basis, as it promised during standards-setting processes.

• Apache declares war on Oracle over Java

  Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use.

• FBI watching Oracle-SAP trial

  An FBI agent has been in the courtroom each day this week watching the Oracle-SAP trial, suggesting U.S. law enforcement continues to take an interest in the case.

• Did Dutch police break the law taking down a botnet?

  Dutch police took unprecedented action in taking down a botnet on Monday: They uploaded their own program to infected computers around the world, a move that likely violated computer crime laws.

• Report: Microsoft targeting Acer, Asustek over Android

  Microsoft may be looking to add to its existing patent infringement case related to the use of Google's Android mobile phone software by targeting phone makers in Taiwan, according to a Chinese-language news report.

• Oracle database admins acknowledge security gaps

  Database security is rife with pitfalls, according to 430 Oracle database administrators surveyed by the Independent Oracle Users Group.

• Motorola files patent lawsuits against Apple

  Motorola has filed two patent lawsuits and a patent complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that a wide range of Apple products infringe its patents.

• Teenager jailed for refusing to hand over computer password

  A teenager has been jailed for four months after refusing to hand over an encryption key for his computer to police.

• Google asks court to dismiss Oracle's Android lawsuit

  Google has made a sweeping request that a court throw out the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180703/Google_calls_Oracle_lawsuit_baseless_vows_to_fight_it">copyright- and patent-infringement lawsuit filed in August by Oracle</a> over Java use in Android, a popular, open-source mobile phone platform created by Google.

• Microsoft sues Motorola over Android

  Microsoft filed patent infringement complaints against Motorola and its Android phones in the International Trade Commission and U.S. federal court Friday, indicating that the software giant may hope to use its strong patent position as one way to set its mobile software apart from the competition.