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Oracle announced on Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against archrival SAP, alleging the software giant hacked into Oracle's customer support centre and downloaded copies of its proprietary software code.

The European Union's top antitrust official, Neelie Kroes, told the European Parliament on Thursday that Microsoft continues to gain market share through "abusive behaviour".

SAN MATEO, California (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the fairness of how Web search leader Google Inc. calculates the popularity of Web sites in determining search results, court papers show.

HELSINKI, March 19 (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it had filed complaints against Qualcomm (QCOM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) patents in Germany and the Netherlands in the latest case between the two technology giants. 

The Mount Everest of evidence proving IBM's Linux contributions infringed SCO's intellectual-property rights amount to little more than a mole hill, according to a lawyer for Big Blue, who recently told a federal judge SCO has identified only 326 lines of offending code out of a base of more than 700,000 lines.

LONDON (Reuters) - An Internet consultant who won damages in a Scottish court after he received a single unwanted email has launched a campaign to help people tackle "spammers."

Analysis Viacom has launched a $1bn lawsuit against YouTube and its owners Google over copyright infringing videos hosted by the site. The case could test the limits of the 'safe harbor' protections for ISPs and influence other user-generated content sites.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. is confident its popular video-sharing site YouTube and other Web services Google offers have strong legal protections under current copyright law, company attorneys said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. sued Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion on Tuesday in the biggest challenge yet to the Web search leader's strategy to dominate the online video market.

AMD vs Intel Intel's top executives have been playing "Hide and Seek the Anti-trust E-mails," according to a fresh set of court documents released over the weekend.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) 3D modeling software, which gives Web users an astronaut's view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to street level, does not infringe the patent of a rival.

A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5bn in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a second trial that was set to begin soon.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed Alcatel-Lucent's (ALU.PA: Quote, Profile, Research)(ALU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) patent claim against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) over technology that converts speech into text, the two companies said on Friday.