It’s been over a year since we first reported that Oracle was looking into a suit against Google for its perceived infringement of their Java code , and we’ve finally come to a point where it appears that both parties are willing to reach, maybe, perhaps, a settlement. This settlement may well come in this newest announced move for a mediation meeting between representatives from Google and representatives from Oracle, this newest move sparking talk about how serious Google is taking the case and questions over whether or not they’re prepared to defend themselves in a case that could, ultimately, believe it or not, end up in the destruction of Android as we know it today. One of the most interesting very possibly related events to surround this whole situation is the announcement last week that Java creator James Gosling would be leaving Google after only 6 months on the job .
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Oracle vs Google Android lawsuit to End
September 8th, 2011Kodak Announces Pic Flick App for Android
June 29th, 2011“Kodak is committed to make printing easy and more accessible in today’s mobile and connected world,” said Susan Tousi, General Manager, Inkjet Systems, and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. “We will continue to deliver smart printing solutions that provide exceptional ink value and high quality output for the home and home office.” The KODAK Pic Flick App also enables mobile printing of photos from an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or BLACKBERRY Device(2)
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Andy Rubin: Half Million Daily Android Activations and Growing
June 28th, 2011Posted by: Scott Webster June 28, 2011 Andy Rubin, the founder of Android and current Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, tweeted yet another Android milestone this morning.  You do know that the platform is growing, right?  Well, as Rubin advises, that growth is at a rate of 4.4% week over week
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Lenovo to launch IdeaPad and ThinkPad Android Honeycomb tablets this summer
June 14th, 2011Lenovo apparently has big plans in the tablet space. It, of course, is just the latest in a long list of computer makers to see the appeal of the tablet market. All three of the top three computer makers (HP, Dell, and Acer) already sell tablets.
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Qualcomm Uplinq 2011 Keynote Details: 3D, Augmented Reality, Peer-to-Peer Gaming
June 2nd, 2011Today Qualcomm was at the Uplinq 2011 Event and started things off this morning on the first keynote with Dr Paul Jacobs, Chairman and CEO of Qualcomm. He was standing in front of a huge screen that showed impressive idea’s, data, and numbers throughout the keynote.
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NVIDIA Shows off SHADOWGUN Kal-El Quad-core Processor Game
May 31st, 2011Behold the next game NVIDIA is showing off to display the power of quad-core, NVIDIA’s next project Kal-El , the name of the case. This is a game presented also by the developers Madfinger Games, makers of Samurai II: Vengeance . This newest game is a shooter game of some note, some fantastic blasting out the faces of all enemies with four cores of CPU, 12 cores of GPU, and you can tell em Superman sent ya.
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Nokia Windows Phone 7 Mango handsets already exist, no launch date given
May 24th, 2011Earlier today, when announcing the brand new Windows Phone Mango , Andy Lees, President of Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, made an interesting (but perhaps not surprising) remark: “We already have Nokia handsets that run Windows Phone Mango in our labs.†Unfortunately, no other details about this were given. However, Nokia itself has acknowledged that Mango “is the software that will be used on the first Nokia with Windows Phone device†on its official blog
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Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hands-On and Unboxing by Vic Gundotra
May 10th, 2011Well what do you know? We’ve got no less than Sr Vice President of Engineering at Google Vic Gundotra unboxing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for us, right in front of your eyeballs. This took place early in the day during Google I/O 2011, right after the gigantic 50 minute keynote speech that included everything from a new movie rental service to the logo for Ice Cream Sandwich
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