Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static main() ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- After Oracle made its closing statements on Monday morning at the U.S. District Court, Google's Robert Van Nest stepped up to the plate, defending Android's implementation of the 37 ...

The judge's decision, coming little more than a week after a jury unanimously concluded that Google's use of Java in Android did not infringe Oracle's Java patents, means that Oracle -- for the moment ...

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects data from the energy industry on nearly 80 survey instruments, managed by several program offices. In 1996, realizing all these surveys shared many ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

The legal war between Oracle and Google has been rather muted for the last several months, but there could be a major new twist in the case. Reuters has reported that legal representatives for ...

The accusations have been flying for five years now in Oracle’s bitter legal battle with Google, and on Thursday the companies reportedly appeared in a San Francisco District Court to hear Oracle ...