Oracle has released an urgent fix for the zero-day flaws that plagued its Java software platform.
The business software giant explained that the update patches four vulnerabilities, which include zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited by attackers off the radar.
Oracle highly recommends for web administrators and users to download the update on their computer systems and immediately repair the flaws in Java 6 and Java

The ongoing case that has pitted Oracle against Google over Java patent infringements in the Android operating system has not disappointed with interesting revelations being made by both sides as the proceedings commence. Yesterday Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison took to the witness stand to provide testimony in support of his company and made an interesting revelation.

Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison

According to Ellison, Oracle had considered jumping into the mobile smartphone …

Financial Secrets May Go Public When Oracle vs. Google Trial Starts / image via The Guardian

One of the biggest technology lawsuits filed in the US could find sensitive financial secrets seeing the light of day when trial starts soon following a formal filing in a San Francisco, California court Monday, of a case filed by Internet biggie Oracle against Internet giant Google.
Oracle, which acquired the Java programming language from Sun Microsystems, charged that Google’s Android operating …

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Documents particularly emails from within Google has made its battle with Oracle harder as the company will now have a hard time defending its “no willful infringement” defense in court.
Florian Muller, the renowned patents lawsuits observer notes that emails coming from Google reveal that the company and its officials may have known that they will be infringing on patents owned by …

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Oracle, the database software giant, has started removing all the blog posts of former Sun Chief Jonathan Schwartz from its website, reports CNET. Among the blog posts removed from Oracle’s web site included the one embarrassing post published in 2007 in which Jonathan had praised Google’s use of Java in Android.
The Sun Microsystems and its Java programming language were acquired by …

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Google in 2006 declined to sign a US$100 million agreement with Sun Microsystems as payment in royalties to use Java in building then new operating system, Android, before Oracle acquired the bankrupt company together with the programming language’s patents and copyrights, a Google lawyer stated.
At a San Francisco federal court hearing yesterday, Google attorney Robert Van Nest cleared allegations about the search giant’s …