Two Silicon Valley heavyweights are about to reenact the Java wars: this time, in a court room. Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Besides arguing that the Java APIs were free to implement on Android because they are necessary for using the Java language, Google is holding onto another strategy as well. That ...

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(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 ...

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 ...

A jury has found that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights in Android but could not decide unanimously if the infringement was protected by “fair use.” The jury’s verdict, delivered Monday after ...

Google has responded to Oracle's lawsuit over the use of Java in Android, claiming it has not infringed any of the claimed patents. In its Tuesday answer to Oracle's complaint, which was filed in ...

Google’s planned mobile operating system, which has been referred to as Android N, will leverage OpenJDK APIs rather than Google’s own Java implementation alone. The move has been praised as good for ...

The patent showdown between Oracle and Google over seven Java-related patents has been heating up this week, with a California judge yesterday expressing scepticism over Google’s behaviour On ...

What to Watch after OpenAI's Ad-testing and Google's UCP Launch for Agentic Commerce Integration? SAN FRANCISCO, /PRNewswire/ -- The race to commercialize AI has reached a pivotal moment. While the in ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...