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05.11.2010
Oracle's lawsuit against SAP, alleging intellectual-property theft by SAP's former subsidiary TomorrowNow, went to trial this week, garnering daily headlines out of the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California. Otherwise, as is so often the case, security-related stories captured interest, and the U.S. midterm elections provoked questions about network neutrality's future, among other issues.

1. and : SAP has admitted that TomorrowNow inappropriately downloaded Oracle materials at the heart of the lawsuit, so testimony has turned on how much the German company should be fined for those actions. Which takes us to our second entry for the week ...

2. : Former SAP chief Leo Apotheker, who officially took over as Hewlett-Packard CEO Monday, is on Oracle's witness list, but he is apparently staying away from the U.S.

3. : It was only a matter of time before this sort of Android attack surfaced -- a researcher released code that can be used to attack older versions of the mobile-phone operating system via the Web.

4. , and : Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections brought sweeping changes to the House of Representatives -- if not to California -- and pushed to the forefront both the use of social networks by candidates and political parties, and questions about what will happen with network neutrality.