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Oct

19

2011

How to Test Drive Android Ice Cream Sandwich

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by Jim Farmer
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Hey Android fans! As you all know, Ice Cream Sandwich was officially unveiled yesterday evening. In case you missed it, Google also announced that the 4.0 SDK (Source Developer Kit) is available as of right now. To most, the SDK is strictly for development purposes, but did you know, you can use it to give [...]

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Aug

8

2011

Run Java games and apps on your Android Device (JBED)

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by David Laborde
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According to XDA member and developer mohammadN, JBED will let you run any Java/J2ME/MDIP games or applications natively with Jbed Android Java Emulator. Using a signed flash-able package for easy installation, this can be flashed on ClockWorkMod recovery version 2, 3, or 4. This was tested on an HTC Wildfire but should be compatible with [...]

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Apr

2

2011

Bing Maps SDK comes to Android [video]

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by Dustin Karnes
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Over at a company called InKnowledge, developers have come up with a native SDK for Bing Maps by Microsoft… for Android. The SDK is said to bring a plethora of map control options to the table, so if Google Maps (for whatever reason) isn’t your thing, then maybe you should check this out. No javascript [...]

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Nov

13

2010

Google to Oracle: Android does not infringe on your copyrights

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by Tyler Cunningham
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Another day, another chapter in the ongoing Oracle versus Google saga. A couple of weeks ago, we told you that Oracle had accused Google of blatantly taking their copyrighted Java code and placing it into Android’s source code. Well, Google is continuing to fight back, and has countered Oracle’s latest filing against them by both denying their [...]

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Nov

1

2010

Oracle accusing Google of directly copying Java in Android

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by Tyler Cunningham
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A new chapter in the ongoing Google versus Oracle saga is underway, this time with the latter accusing the former of “directly copying” Java code for use in the Android OS. Oracle is claiming that major chunks of the code that makes up Android is, for lack of a better term, copy and pasted from [...]

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Oct

13

2010

Why the Oracle-IBM pact could spell disaster for Android

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by Tyler Cunningham
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This past monday, it was announced that Oracle and IBM were buddying up  to collaborate on OpenJDK, which is Oracle’s open source Java implementation. For those of you who aren’t up to speed on the whole Oracle versus Google fiasco, know that Oracle is suing Google over what it feels are patent infringements over Google’s use of Java [...]

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Aug

31

2010

Google not attending JavaOne conference

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by Dustin Karnes
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In light of the lawsuit between Oracle and Google, Google has made their thoughts clear on the matter, and thus has officially announced that they will not be attending the upcoming JavaOne conference. The conference will be taking place in San Fransisco during the week of September 19th. In the official announcement,Joshua Bloch of the [...]

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Aug

21

2010

Oracle lawsuit is making Android developers unhappy

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by Tyler Cunningham
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The recent suit brought against Google by enterprise database management behemoth that is Oracle is causing some unrest among members of the Android development community.  Oracle is claiming that the Android OS is infringing on the intellectual property of their Java Platform and has violated Java patent and copyright protection. Silicon Valley Android Developers group [...]

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Aug

13

2010

Google replies to Oracle’s lawsuit, calls it “baseless” and “and attack”

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by Dustin Karnes
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Last night, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google over Android, stating that their mobile OS infringes on seven different java patents. Oracle has the rights to these patents, and has since their acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year. Google has issued the following statement in reply: “We are disappointed Oracle has chosen to attack both Google and [...]

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Aug

12

2010

Oracle sues Google: Android violates Java copyrights

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by Chris Moor
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Oracle Corp. said Thursday that it will be suing Google claiming that their Android OS infringed on intellectual property of Oracles Java Platform. Google is no stranger to lawsuits. The most recent lawsuit being Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube/Google claiming YouTube infringed on its copyrights and knowingly allowed offending content to remain on its site. [...]

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