TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
The stakes in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android are high for developers, with the recent finding by a jury that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights by, among other things, implementing Java's application programming interfaces (APIs] for Android.
By Rohan Pearce | 11 May, 2012 16:16
Microsoft's Windows 95 rollout presented the most challenges in the company's history, leading to several last-minute changes to technical features that would no longer support a rival software maker's word processor, Bill Gates has testified in a $US1 billion ($A1.01 billion) antitrust lawsuit filed by the creator of WordPerfect.
By AAP | 22 November, 2011 08:48
South Korea's Samsung Electronics says it has filed a complaint in France against its US rival Apple for infringement of three technology patents.
By AAP | 13 September, 2011 11:47
Motorola's mobile phone subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the world's largest software maker has infringed 16 of its patents in PC, mobile and server software, as well as Xbox products.
By Dan Nystedt | 12 November, 2010 04:14
Oracle's recent patent infringement lawsuit against Google around the way its Android operating system uses Java is contradictory to the apparent joy of former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz in a blog post three years ago still hosted by Oracle.
By Rodney Gedda | 24 August, 2010 10:18
A Chicago-area woman is being sued for $50,000 by her landlord over a critical Tweet, the Chicago Sun-Times reported today. The landlord is quoted as describing itself as a "sue first and ask questions later kind of an organization." The tweet in question appeared to go to fewer than 20 friends of the sender.
By David Coursey | 29 July, 2009 04:28
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