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Oracle called Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against its former CEO "vindictive" and said it threatened the companies' close relationship.

Of all the hassles that can plague a PC user (and, trust me, there are many), few are as infuriating as random lockups. There you are, typing along, when suddenly everything just freezes. No error message, no blue screen, just a locked-up, unresponsive system. I've been there. I feel your pain.

A bug introduced during a routing system update caused Gmail to turn some users into unintentional spammers by resending some messages multiple times to increasingly annoyed recipients including company bosses, clients, prospective employers and friends.

Cisco Systems and distributor Westcon Group North America have agreed to pay the U.S. government $48 million to settle charges that they misrepresented prices in contracts with the U.S. General Service Administration and other agencies.

The U.S. government is asking the public for help with some of its most vexing problems with the launch of a new Web site that offers rewards for the best ideas.

The head of eBay's mobile efforts wants to make eBay the first place that people look on their phones when searching for a product to buy.

When you click the Start menu--or visit the Windows logon screen--you're presented with a rather arbitrary thumbnail image. Usually it's a flower, soccer ball, rubber ducky, or one of the other handful of Windows' stock images.

HP is suing former CEO Mark Hurd, who was named co-president of rival Oracle on Monday, saying his hiring violates the terms of a severance agreement he signed with HP.

Facebook today said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users' walls earlier this week.

Symantec announced several upgrades to its backup and archive software products that allow users to collect and store data from laptops and desktops for discovery purposes. The company also announced its first de-duplication appliance.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has been appointed co-president of Oracle, the software company announced Monday.

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd has a new job: Oracle announced Monday night that it has hired him to be one of its two co-presidents.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has been appointed co-president of Oracle, the software company announced Monday.

Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) over the weekend.

If you're both adults, can someone you're living with spy on your Internet habits? nikkiraz asked the Networking forum.

When Mark Hurd resigned unexpectedly from Hewlett-Packard last month he found an outspoken supporter in the form of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. It appears now that Hurd may end up working for Ellison, according to a report Saturday in the Wall Street Journal.

All touch screens are not multitouch, write columnist Mike Elgan. Here offers a field guide to understanding the differences in gadget touch screens.

Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.

Over the years, Windows has gotten progressively better at laptop power management--but it still doesn't tell you much about your battery.