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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued findings on two of Oracle's Java-related patents at issue in the database giant's case against Google over the Java virtual machine included in Android. Perhaps most significantly, the USPTO rejected Oracle's patent claims on U.S. patent number 7,426,720, which has generally been considered one of the most important patents in the case, in part because it's one of the… Read More

The major patent and copyright infringement case between Google and Oracle over technology included in Android looks like it may be going to trial, just not anytime soon. Judge William Alsup issued his preliminary trial plan to both sides Wednesday, noting that the trial is not going to get started in 2011—and everyone involved had better get prepared for a long-drawn out proceeding rather than a quick summary trial. Judge Alsup outlined plans… Read More

A federal judge has ruled that Oracle may depose current Google CEO Larry Page in Oracle's lawsuit over Java technology in Android—but only for two hours, and only in matters relevant to the allegation of copyright infringement and Android's overall value to Google. The move is another way for Oracle to increase pressure on Google in what's turning into a high-stakes case: Oracle has said it believes it's owed at… Read More

In a filing yesterday with the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, database giant Oracle revealed is seeking some $2.6 billion in damages from Google for alleged Java patent infringements in Google's Android mobile operating system. The damages figure is based on estimates from Boston University finance professor Iain Cockburn, who is serving as Oracles damages expert. Oracle also claimed Google has… Read More

In perhaps one of the most important scientific findings of all-time, astronomers have discovered a young star that is blasting massive amounts of water — yes, water — into space, reports National Geographic. The discovery may have unlocked the mystery of how H2O, the key to life, gained such a prevalent presence on planet Earth, and could have implications beyond our greatest imaginations. Located about 750 light years form Earth, the… Read More

NASA has released a new image of the sun from March 29, 2011. The portion of the sun that's covered is actually the Earth. This photo was taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a spacecraft that orbits the Earth at a distance of 22,000 miles. 72 minutes a day the SDO witnesses the sun being eclipsed by the Earth like this. In February, two NASA probes also gave us our first simultaneous shot of the entire surface of the sun, all… Read More

Yesterday, NASA confirmed a very vital piece of information to all mankind: we now know that the sun is, without a doubt, a sphere. For the first time, the space agency is able to see both the front and back of the sun. Luckily, there were no surprises. NASA now has an uninterrupted feed of both sides of the sun, allowing it to monitor and gather invaluable information about its health and inner workings. To obtain the 360 degree view, NASA… Read More

Last week, intellectual property expert Florian Mueller caused a stir by distributing a 46-page analysis in which he examined the source code files for Google's Android operating system and claimed to have found numerous instances where Google copied Oracle's Java code outright, or de-compiled it using software tools. The assertions seemed to back up Oracle's infringement suit against Google: that suit, if successful, could… Read More

Back in August, Oracle filed a patent infringment suit against Google, claiming that the open source Android operating system violated several Oracle patents by including proprietary technology from Sun Microsystems's Java implementation. Now, IP activist Florian Mueller has outlined several instances in the Android source where Google appears to have copied Java source code outright and included it in Android…all the way down to… Read More

During a press conference earlier in the week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the SPARC Supercluster, an enterprise system made up of the Solaris operating system, ZFS storage technology, and Sun Microsystems processing power. The full specifications, according to Chicago Independent Press: The hardware configuration used to achieve the record was a single SPARC Supercluster with 108 SPARC T3 chips, for a total of 1,728 processor cores. The… Read More

Apple has never been bashful about drawing lines in the sand surrounding its tightly-controlled iOS mobile platform, but the company has always been a little more inclusive with its Mac OS X desktop operating system. However, changes are afoot in the world of Mac OS X as well: Apple has officially deprecated Java, the cross-platform runtime environment developed by Sun and now owned by Oracle, and the company has decided not to include Adobe… Read More

Last month, Mark Hurd resigned from the CEO position at Hewlett-Packard after the HP board dteremined that he had violated the company's code of business conduct with regard to his relationship with a former marketing contractor who worked with Hewlett-Packard. Now, reports are surfacing in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and elsewhere that Hurd is considering a senior position at database giant Oracle—although the… Read More

Database giant Oracle has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Google in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming Google's open source Android operating system infringes on seven patents related to Java. In its complaint, Oracle alleges Google was fully aware of the Java patents, and even to the extent of hiring some of Sun's Java engineers to work on the project. Oracle is seeing a jury trail and unspecified damages. “In… Read More

Oracle has announced that it has completed its takeover of Sun Microsystems, concluding a deal values at over $7 billion and which wound slowly through the processes of antitrust regulators in both the United States and the European Union. The deal makes the world's largest maker of database software into a hardware company which will manufacture servers, storage solutions, and other high-end hardware, as well as take over Sun's… Read More

After months of examination, the European Commission has unconditionally approved Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, clearing a major hurdle towards the database giant's eventual takeover of Sun. European competition commissioners had been concerned because the deal would put one of the major players in the commercial database market (Oracle) in control of the leading open source database systems (MySQL). However,… Read More