WebOS, my how you have fallen. You once were a potentially great up and coming mobile operating system. Now you’re nothing more than an unloved step child being passed between foster homes. Right now HP (barely) claims you. And if negotiations with potential buyers go in HP’s favor, one of several potential buyers will be the next. According to one of Reuters’ sources (link), Oracle is a front runner in the potential sale. If webOS wasn’t dead...
The ongoing Google vs. Oracle case was just dealt a serious victory/setback depending on which camp you cheer for. If you recall, Oracle sued Google for pretty much everything under the sun with claims of $100+ million being tossed around. The presiding judge, Hon. William, has ordered both companies to cut back their claims/defenses from 132 to 3, and told Oracle that the tossed out claims can never be tried again. Currently, there are 132 claims from seven patents...
The we had earlier concerning some pretty embarrassing examples of proprietary Oracle source code residing within Android source files may not be as serious or damaging as once thought. But Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul highlights that (1) the source code brought up by open source enthusiast and tech patent lawyer, Florian Mueller, is from a third party entity that included in Android’s Open Source Project repository. Second, much of the code in question is...
It’s a bad day to be a Google and avid Android distributor (such as your typical cellular carrier), as tech patent aficionado Florian Mueller, has found some rather startling finds whilst trudging through mountains of Android source code. In relation to the ongoing Oracle/Google lawsuit involving Android and it’s apparent patent infringement of Java, Mueller has found 37 Android source files contain blatantly stolen code from Oracle as they are labeled with:...
Those looking forward to a new storage format for OS X will be sorely disappointed. ZFS which was to be the successor to the current HFS+ sometime down the road appears to have been shelved indefinitely. As 9to5 Mac highlights a comment from...
