Between the Lines

Oracle’s lawsuit against Google for Java patent infringement highlights how Android is going to become a big target in court.

Microsoft has recently touted its success with Bing with good reason, but the financial hit from the last eight years of the software giant’s Internet follies is staggering.

Do you prefer beer with or without foam? Charlie Bamforth the professor of brewing sciences at UC Davis says people want foam, so he’s applying scientific principles to produce the perfect beer.

In a brief press release issued late Thursday afternoon, Oracle said it has filed suit against Google, alleging patent and copyright infringement as part of its development of Android.
The company offered no details and the release contained a simple two-sentence quote from Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman:
In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s [...]

In a brief press release issued late Thursday afternoon, Oracle said it has filed suit against Google, alleging patent and copyright infringement as part of its development of Android.
The company offered no details and the release contained a simple two-sentence quote from Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman:
In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s [...]

Google continues to enhance the Android experience with two new features announced today that continue to reduce the need for an actual keyboard.

Google fired back at critics of its net neutrality policy proposal with Verizon. In a nutshell, Google said it wasn’t a sell out, hasn’t shelved wireless net neutrality plans and denied it’s working with Verizon because of its Android ties.

Google’s decision to open source Android to multiple wireless handset makers has the mobile operating system poised to be No. 2 worldwide in short order.

Seagate and Samsung inked a joint development and licensing pact designed to makes solid state drives more enterprise friendly.

China Mobile and Xinhua, a state-run media company, have formed a search engine joint venture aimed at Baidu and Google.

Sprint is turning the corner courtesy of its 4G network and new devices and increasingly warrants more of your buying consideration.

As if the efforts around broadband expansion keep getting testes, a survey finds that the majority of Americans feel that the government investment isn’t as important as other things.

As television evolves into its own 21st Century version, the forces behind the scenes are working hard to carve out their own niche, thought it will be tough to guess which model will do best among viewers.

Word’s Find and Replace function is a handy tool. Bill Detwiler shares three Find and Replace tips that will help make you a Word power user.

Verizon Wireless will have 4G aircards and dongles available in the fourth quarter, but LTE tablets and smartphones will be on deck in the first half of 2011. 3G tablets will be a fourth quarter development.

Cisco Systems closed out a strong fiscal year with better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings, but sales fell short of expectations.

A Facebook privacy loophole exposes a user’s full name and profile pic on a login error page when a user types in an e-mail address but has a typo in the password.

There could be more to former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd’s ouster than just a hit to his reputation over a sexual harassment probe. He was not well-regarded among the HP rank-and-file, and it may have come back to bite him.

Yahoo outlined how it’s going to use data from its partnerships with Facebook and Twitter, its use of Hadoop in data warehousing and its analytics plan.

The Samsung Captivate, AT&T’s version of the Galaxy S, is a surprisingly strong entrant that now rivals the HTC EVO 4G and the Motorola Droid X among the top Android devices.