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Toshiba gives up on Japanese tellies
Electronics giant Toshiba has decided that making TVs for the Japanese is a complete waste of time. -
Tony Blair is a hopeless Luddite – official
As we recall, Alistair Campbell once had a pop at Tony Blair for his seeming inability to look at a computer screen without completely glazing over. -
Jury mulls Oracle and Google war
The case follows Oracle's decision to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion and acquiring Java. Before that, Sun was not interested in hitting Google up for cash. -
McNealy backs Oracle against Google
Former Sun boss Scott McNealy has backed Oracle in its claims that Google needed a license to use Sun's Java programming interfaces in Android. -
Google engineer denies he saw an Oracle smoking gun
According to Reuters, when Lindholm took the stand the former Sun Microsystems employee said that he had been asked by top Google executives to investigate technical alternatives to Java for Android. -
Larry Ellison stumped on Java question
Oracle boss Larry Ellison was backed into a corner in court and had to admit that he didn't know that Java was free software. -
Oracle claims to find a smoking gun in Google case
Oracle claims that Google's Android operating system tramples on its intellectual property rights to Java, which it acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2010. -
Astronaut to pen space-shanty aboard Discovery shuttle
Guitar twanging astronauts are laying claim to owning the world’s most travelled guitar, orbiting the planet 50,000 orbits so far. -
Samsung mulls server push
RumourSamsung might be hiring engineers to develop chips for servers. -
Panasonic moves mobile production away from Japan
Japanese company Panasonic is to shift all production of its mobile phone handsets away from the Land of the Rising Sun this summer. -
Micron makes peace with Oracle, Sun shines again
Micron has reached a deal with Oracle to settle a lawsuit over price increases for memory chips which happened in the good old days before Larry Ellison got his claws into Sun Microsystems. -
Japan orders Google to kill auto-complete terms
Japanese judges have come down hard on Google's auto-complete search function. -
Oracle does better than anyone could have expected
Oracle's poisoned chalice is still the company's hardware business. Analysts had expected hardware revenue of more than $1 billion as the company turned around the struggling division it got when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2010. -
Wall Street is very unhappy with Oracle
As many predicted, the nearly $6 billion buy out of Sun Microsystems has turned into a liability. Oracle is still making a fortune from its database software, although SAP says that it might move into that area by the end of this year. -
Proview asks distributors to kill iPad HD in China
Chinese ipad maker Proview, which is battling Apple over the iPad trademark in China, has asked Chinese distributors to stop selling the new iPad HD. -
Anonymous takes revenge on the Pope
You have to hand it to hacker outfit Anonymous, they are not prepared to let bygones be bygones. -
Intel signs up for LibreOffice
Semiconductor behemoth Intel seems to be slapping its former partner Microsoft with a wet kipper by offering LibreOffice on its app store. -
For now, HP's Itanic is still sailing
Margins on Itanium iron are higher than Xeons, we’re sure, but losing highly-profitable hardware and software to Oracle’s Sun Microsystems might smart more than HP is willing to take.
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