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 ...

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<b>week in review</b> Patent and copyright trial begins, while Microsoft makes Windows 8 names official. Also: Zuckerberg solos on Instagram acquisition. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...

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 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 ...

Oracle and Google are headed to court Monday so that a jury can decide whether Google misappropriated Oracle’s Java technology to build its Android software platform, as Oracle claims. Oracle filed ...

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 ...

After only a few months at Google, Java founder James Gosling has left the search engine giant to go to a small startup company specializing in ocean-based robotics. Gosling, who joined Google in late ...