Java faced an existential crisis very early in its existence, in the late ’90s. Microsoft attempted to create its own version of the language, dubbed Visual J++, that integrated with its development ...

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 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 ...

Google has filed court documents denying all of Oracle's allegations in a Java patent infringement suit filed in August. But Google didn't just deny the allegations and ask for full dismissal of the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Six years after first suing Google for ostensibly stealing ...

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 ...

The Oracle v. Google trial continued on day five with more detailed dissection of Java and APIs and the difference, or similarities, between Android and Java. Google's lawyers framed their questions ...

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An intellectual property expert has uncovered 43 instances where it appears that Google copied Java code without permission in the most recent versions of the Android operating system. The discovery ...

Google's enterprise ambitions with Google Docs and Gmail are well known, but the company also has the potential to land enterprise software developers going forward, according to a Forrester Research ...

Since the IBM-Sun merger has continued to not happen, I officially declare myself bored with making further speculation on the matter until we hear some concrete announcement. Believe it or not, other ...

After 18 months of pre-trial wrangling, millions of dollars in legal expenses, six weeks of jury arguments, testimony from chief execs Larry Ellison and Larry Page, and umpteen attempts to explain ...