Google's Android software infringes on several patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired from Sun earlier this year, Oracle says in suit filed Thursday. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding ...

Google CEO Larry Page will take the stand again in the company's courtroom tussle with Oracle over whether Android infringes on Java patents and copyrights, but the story line for the search giant is ...

What do the programmers and companies that depend on the Java software family make of Oracle suing Google? To find out, we asked them. [ The Five Winners of Oracle suing Google ] The lawyers and ...

Google and Sun Microsystems’ discussions to co-develop Android ultimately broke down because of disagreements over control of the platform, Google wrote in a trial brief late last week related to its ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

(Reuters) — Oracle and Google faced off on Tuesday in a $9 billion copyright retrial, with Oracle accusing Google of stealing programming to become the world’s leading smartphone player and Google ...

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At his personal blog Webmink, Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, complained Sunday that Google is not supporting all Java classes in its App Engine. He even linked to Google's list of ...

Borrowing a technique from Eiffel, Google is adding Design-By-Contract functionality to Java to protect it against buffer overflow attacks Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should ...

"Once you write it on Android, you can’t run it on anything but Android," Catz said. "If you write it in Java, you can’t run it on Android." Click to expand ...

Other features in the updated version of App Engine include database import and export, access to firewalled data, and 'cron' support Google on Tuesday evening announced a new version of its App ...