Google faces a copyright- and patent-infringement lawsuit over its use of Java in the Android development platform. Oracle means business, and the lawsuit is sure to make ripples throughout the ...

(Reuters) — Oracle and Google faced off on Tuesday in a $9 billion copyright retrial, with Oracle accusing Google of stealing programming to become the world’s leading smartphone player and Google ...

Borrowing a technique from Eiffel, Google is adding Design-By-Contract functionality to Java to protect it against buffer overflow attacks Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should ...

"Once you write it on Android, you can’t run it on anything but Android," Catz said. "If you write it in Java, you can’t run it on Android." Click to expand ...

Other features in the updated version of App Engine include database import and export, access to firewalled data, and 'cron' support Google on Tuesday evening announced a new version of its App ...