Last week I asked if Google were fracturing Java, along the lines of Microsoft’s abortive plans to market its own incompatible J++ language in the late ’90s. The result was an outpouring of comments ...

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 ...

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 ...

Java -- which first came to fruition in the mid 1990s -- may have taken its place among the legacy languages of the industry, but its developers are enjoying the highest levels of job satisfaction in ...

Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday. “In developing Android, Google ...

Monday’s decision in Google v. Oracle reminds us that occasionally the Supreme Court can take a big case and actually decide it! So many of the intellectual-property cases that reach the justices ...

A federal court in California has denied Oracle another trial in its long-standing copyright infringement dispute with Google over the use of Java code in the Android operating system. A jury had ...

Oracle's nearly eight-year legal battle with Google just won't end. Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that Google violated Oracle's copyrights when it built a custom version of the Java platform ...

IBM, Microsoft and other tech companies have filed court documents in support of Google ahead of the Supreme Court of the US hearing over whether copyright applies to software application programming ...

The case of Oracle v. Google is Silicon Valley’s lawsuit that will seemingly never die. On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Oracle, finding that Google may ...