If you’ve kept up withthe storyover the past few months, Oracle is playing patent troll on a number of counts against Google in respect to the Android operating system and its inclusion of Java. The short version of the story is that any Java Virtual Machine (VM) should be able to run any other VM’s code. Google has changed its VM and, under the licensing agreement, has seemingly done some things wrong....
Oracle is hoping it can get Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page to testify in court as it pursues litigation against the search giant for infringing patents related to its Java technology,Reuters reports. Page is named amongst three other current or former Google employees that Oracle wants to despose in its filing on Thursday, including Dipchand Nishar, a former employee that was behind Google’s mobile initiaties, Bob Lee, a former Senior Software Engineer at Google and Tim Lindholm, an Android software engineer who is said to have contributed to some of the Java code that is being questioned in the suit....
Back in January, wereportedEverything Everywhere – the parent company of Orange and T-Mobile – was teaming up with Barclaycard to make Near Field Communications (NFC) payments a reality for its customers. For those of you that don’t know, NFC payments mean that customers don’t need to use cash or credit cards, they simply swipe their mobile phones across a special handset at the checkout, and voila. And today, Orange and Barclaycard officially launched ‘Quick Tap‘, which is the UK’s first contactless mobile phone payments service....
Orange, the UK mobile phone network, has announced that it’s giving its Windows Phone users a free app every day in July. Working in conjunction with Microsoft, the deal will apply to both contract and and pay-as-you-go customers, and Orange Windows Phone users will access the free apps from an exclusive ‘Orange Selects’ folder onWindows Marketplace. Visitors to the Orange Selects folder will see a selection of the most popular apps, and the top app will be available to download for free for one day only....
UK mobile operator Orange has today announced two new features for Android devices launching on its networks; Orange Gestures and Live Wallpapers, features that will allow its customers to further customise their phones out of the box. Orange Gestures provides 27 actions that users can assign to either an action or an application, including speed dialling, sending text messages or launching specific widgets. The feature will reduce the need to scroll through numerous menus, search to perform actions or launch an application....
