Java faced an existential crisis very early in its existence, in the late ’90s. Microsoft attempted to create its own version of the language, dubbed Visual J++, that integrated with its development ...

Is Google fracturing Java, or saving it? I asked those questions, somewhat in jest, a couple of weeks ago. I think the truth is something closer to this: Google is an enormous company that cheerfully ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

Oracle amended its Java complaint against Google over Android patent infringement and provided line-by-line comparisons in its exhibits. In its tweaked complaint, Oracle ups the ante against Google, ...

A new ruling in a court of appeals reverses a 2016 ruling that Google doesn’t owe any money to Oracle for the use of Java code in Android. This case has been going on for nearly a decade, and could ...

I don’t think Oracle suing Google over the use of Java in Android has much to do with Android at all. I think it has everything to do with Oracle monetizing Java anyway it can. That spells big trouble ...

An intellectual property expert has uncovered 43 instances where it appears that Google copied Java code without permission in the most recent versions of the Android operating system. The discovery ...

After 18 months of pre-trial wrangling, millions of dollars in legal expenses, six weeks of jury arguments, testimony from chief execs Larry Ellison and Larry Page, and umpteen attempts to explain ...

Sun Microsystems wanted $30 million to $50 million from Google for a Java license, but Google decided to build its own implementation for Android after negotiations broke down, Google Executive ...