Oracle accuses Google of infringing the copyright on its Java APIs (application programming interfaces) in the development of Google’s Android OS, and it is seeking billions of dollars in damages.

James Gosling, creator of the Java computer language and one of the most prominent employees in Oracle Corp's newly acquired Sun Microsystems, has resigned from Oracle.

Oracle and Google's phalanxes of lawyers are finally set to face off in a San Francisco courtroom, after two years of pretrial wrangling in their dispute over Android and the Java programming ...

While Oracle is trying to carve out a future for Java, there's also lots of history to the programming language that has shaped much of today's technology.

Oracle has stepped up its support of the Obama administration's $4bn plan to improve computer-science education for K-12 students in the US.