The chief executives of Google and Oracle took the witness stand in a high-stakes legal battle over technology patents and copyrights taking place in San Francisco court. Ben Worthen reports on digits ...

There has been a lot of scuttlebutt lately about Oracle and a supposed de-emphasis on Java within the company. The rumblings are getting louder. From the apparent dismissal of Java evangelists to an ...

(CN) - A federal appeals court rejected Google's attempt to block disclosure of an email in which one of its engineers harshly criticized available alternatives to the Java programming language and ...

Hackers are distributing rogue email notifications about changes in Microsoft’s Services Agreement to trick people into visiting malicious pages that use a recently circulated Java exploit to infect ...

As the second week of the Oracle-Google trial got underway Monday, Andy Rubin, the man behind the Android platform, took his turn on the witness stand. Oracle's lead lawyer, David Boies, quickly got ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Google cannot redact an email exchange in which its engineer says that the technical alternatives to Java "all suck," a federal judge ruled Monday in the ongoing litigation over ...

A potentially damning e-mail from a Google engineer will be permitted at trial in Oracle’s lawsuit against the search giant, a judge ordered on Thursday. Judge William Alsup denied Google’s latest ...

The Google employee who wrote an email that Oracle said bolsters their infringement case against the Internet giant testified Thursday that the internal memo was misinterpreted. During brief but tense ...