Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of pirated software in seven U.S. states, the company said Tuesday. Microsoft claims the companies sold pirated software or computers loaded with pirated software.

A Belgian company has refiled a lawsuit over search terms offered by Google Inc.'s toolbar that directs users to pirated software.

Symantec on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that the software giant violated a contract over the use of intellectual property and used the technology to develop a competing product.

Apple Computer Inc. is facing a lawsuit over technology within its popular iPod digital music player and two related applications.

Microsoft Corp. faces more problems in South Korea after a company sued the U.S. software giant over its bundling of Windows Media Player with the Windows operating system.

Symantec Corp. Friday said it has reached an out-of-court agreement in its adware lawsuit against New York-based Hotbar.com Inc. The deal calls for Symantec to dismiss its suit, but continue to classify Hotbar's program files as low-risk adware.

A Delaware judge has lifted a stay in an ongoing lawsuit between Rambus Inc. and Micron Technologies Inc., allowing Rambus to file new claims and to proceed in its patent infringement suit against the Boise, Idaho, memory chip maker.