Oracle and Google are at loggerheads over some $4 million in court costs Google wants Oracle to pay in connection with its patent and copyright lawsuit over the Android mobile OS. Earlier this month, Google demanded that amount from ...
Tags: Oracle, Google, court costs, Android mobile OS
In an effort to expand programmer awareness, Oracle has released a free version of its Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). "This [release] allows the ADF framework to be used outside of the Oracle stack," said Bill Pataky, ...
Tags: programmer awareness, Oracle, free version, ADF
Scala, a prominent, statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine, will be fitted with improvements for classes, asynchronous programming, and development tools as part of an upgrade due soon. Version 2.10 of Scala will be ...
Tags: Scala, Java Virtual Machine, improvements, asynchronous programming
Java 6 will be retired from security support in less than two months, and users and businesses should prepare now for its demise, experts said today. Oracle will publicly patch Java 6 for the last time on Feb. 19, 2013. After that ...
High-risk and dangerous applications targeting users of Google’s Android platform increased from nearly 30,000 in June to almost 175,000 in September, according to Trend Micro’s security roundup report for the third quarter of ...
Tags: Android, cyber security, devices, malware, Trend Micro
Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is on its way for 64-bit ARM hardware The companies all announced development plans for 64-bit ARM hardware. ...
Tags: 64 bit, ARM, Citrix, hardware, Oracle, Red Hat, software
The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices and removable USB drives, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Crisis ...
Tags: Windows version, crisis malware, VMware virtual machine, mobile devices
IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a project that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its ...
Oracle is planning to broaden the footprint of its cloud software portfolio with seven new services covering developer team services, analytics, collaboration and other areas, Executive Vice President of Product Development Thomas Kurian ...
Tags: Oracle, cloud software portfolio, new services, Salesforce.com
SAP laid out broad details of a new cloud-based application development platform powered by the HANA in-memory database during the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. One component of the strategy, NetWeaver Cloud, is generally ...
Tags: SAP, cloud app development platform, HANA, Computer Products
An official document containing policies and pledges for customers of Oracle's cloud services reveals that many aspects fall in line with industry standards, while others may prompt cause for worry among customers, according to analysts. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Oracle Cloud, industry standards, monitoring tools
Oracle announced it is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, during a talk at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week. Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Product Development, delivered the talk, and ...
Tags: cloud, Jave Larry Ellison, OpenWorld, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Oracle database
Harvard researchers have been able to use sequencing technology to store 70 billion copies of a yet-unpublished book in DNA binary code. The results of the project by researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically ...
Tags: Harvard, sequencing technology, DNA binary code, 70 billion books
IDG News Service - Google is letting more App Engine users choose to run their applications in a European data center, in order to improve performance for local users or to meet compliance demands. App Engine is Google's cloud-based ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google, Users, App Engine Apps
Google on Thursday made accommodations for Java and Python developers by offering a Java-to-Objective-C translator and advancing its Python client library for Google APIs. With the open source release of J2ObjC, Google has authored a ...
Tags: Google, java, python, Google APIs, iPad apps, iPhone apps