Week in review: Oracle wins huge verdict against SAP

Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news (shorter than usual due to the Thanksgiving holiday). First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

Oracle wins a whopping $1.3B verdict against SAP — Piracy doesn’t pay … at least not for SAP.

With Saturday Night Live spoof, TSA is losing the Internet war on pat-down searches — What we seem to have here is a citizen revolt in progress, aided and abetted by the Internet, with word spreading on social networking tools such as YouTube and Twitter.

iPhone OS 4.2 lands: Brings multitasking to iPad, free Find My iPhone service — It’s time to get updating: Apple rolled out iPhone OS (iOS) 4.2 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, bringing with it some long-awaited new features like multitasking support on the iPad, and a surprise reveal that its “Find My iPhone” device location service is now free.

iPad beats back first Android tablet — what does it all mean? — Just a month in, the first model in a new series of Android-based tablet computers is already losing to Apple’s market-defining iPad. We talked to consultant Tim Bajarin about where things are going from here.

And here are four more posts we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:

VentureBeat’s top 10 holiday gift ideas: affordable and fun gadgets that work — Our top picks were easy. Apple or Apple or Apple.

As its CEO steps down, what’s happening at RockYou? — News broke Tuesday that Lance Tokuda is stepping down from his role as chief executive of social game- and app-maker RockYou. Coming barely more than a month after the company announced substantial layoffs, we started wondering where RockYou is headed.

Your iPhone can be charged wirelessly — how about your electric car? — Plugs. They’re, like, so 2008.

Report: Windows Mobile was for work, Windows Phone 7 is for fun — Microsoft seems to have a new mantra: When all else fails, shoot for a bigger audience.