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May 27, 2016
If you didn’t already know the jury’s decision in Oracle’s long-running lawsuit against Google, you wouldn’t have been able to guess it from looking at either company’s legal…
Read articleMay 26, 2016
Software developers can breathe a massive sigh of relief — a jury found today that Google’s implementation of 37 Java APIs in Android qualified as fair use. However,…
Read articleMay 23, 2016
Attorneys for Oracle and Google presented their closing arguments today in a lawsuit over Google’s use of Java APIs owned by Oracle in Android. Oracle accused Google of…
Read articleMay 20, 2016
Microsoft is further opening up Skype to businesses. On Thursday, the company launched its Skype for Business SDK – tools which allow iOS and Android developers to integrate…
Read articleMay 19, 2016
The Play Store is coming to Chrome OS, Google announced at its I/O developer conference today — and with that, you will soon be able to install and…
Read articleMay 19, 2016
What if the apps on your phone knew where you were, what you were doing, what’s nearby, and even what the weather was like outside, and then combined…
Read articleMay 19, 2016
Alphabet CEO and Google co-founder Larry Page defended his company’s development of the Android platform today during an ongoing legal battle with Oracle. Oracle sued Google in 2010,…
Read articleMay 18, 2016
What’s worse than asking the Internet at large to name your product? Telling them it has to start with N. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the…
Read articleMay 18, 2016
After announcing the expansion of Android Pay in the U.K. earlier today, Google also made a few additional announcements around its mobile payments service at its I/O developer conference today.…
Read articleMay 18, 2016
Mobile apps often provide a better user experience than browser-based web apps, but you first have to find them, download them, and then try not to forget you…
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