The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will look into accusations by Mozilla that Microsoft is restricting access to important programming tools for browsers that will run in Windows RT, a political blog reported Friday.

The Hill cited unnamed aides to Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, as the source for its report.

Last week, Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, said Microsoft was withholding access to APIs -- application programming interfaces -- that Mozilla considers crucial for building a browser that can compete with Microsoft's own Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) on ARM devices.

In the ongoing court battle between Google and Oracle over the Android operating system, a federal judge has declined to rule that Google's use of Java in Android went beyond "fair use" of material copyrighted by Oracle.

After a jury was unable to decide the matter, Oracle pushed Judge William Alsup to make a "judgment as a matter of law" that Google's defense failed to prove fair use. But on Wednesday, he rejected the motion, saying that Google's defense was good enough to avoid such a judgment.

The following is an excerpt from the article on the trial and can be found here:

"No judge has tried harder than Judge Alsup, presiding over the Oracle-versus-Google case, to persuade two warring parties not to go to court. But he hadn't counted for the egos of the two billionaire Larrys.