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Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Java patents could alienate some people in the Java space, but the litigation is not likely to prompt a forking of the Java platform itself, the founder of the popular Spring Framework for Java development said on Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed last month over Google’s Android mobile platform, represents “a [...]

Ethernet switch revenue grew by 32.7 percent year-over-year during the second quarter, helped by the growing popularity of applications such as virtualization and VoIP, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker. The actual growth comes from continued adoption of technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet and Power over Ethernet. The adoption of the latter technology [...]

Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over the Android mobile platform has upset some developers, even though the ultimate effect of the litigation remains to be seen. “The group is very, very unhappy,” with the lawsuit, says David Cao, an organizer of the Silicon Valley Android Developers group and a vice president at BeyondSoft Consulting. Oracle, he [...]

Adobe Systems this week confirmed it is on track to deliver Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for the Google Android mobile platform by the end of the year. AIR enables  Adobe Flash Web applications to run outside of a browser.  [ Check out InfoWorld's review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Flash 10.1. | Also on InfoWorld: Read [...]

Adobe Systems said today that it would patch a critical Reader vulnerability on Thursday. Two weeks ago, Adobe had promised to fix the flaw during the week of Aug. 16 with an emergency, or “out-of-band” security update, but had not slated a specific date. Computerworld had pegged the likely release date as Aug. 17 based [...]

The fight between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPhone OS has all the trappings of a major industry rift. No one doubts at this point that Apple is on a mission to kill Flash. After many long years, the on-again, off-again conflict between two companies that have relied on one another since the [...]

Apple is attempting to avoid an antitrust probe into its trade practices by revising some of the terms of its developer agreement, according to reports. It’s not clear which parts of the agreement would be revised, but government regulators are said to be interested in provisions in Apple’s iAd advertising program, as well as Apple’s decision [...]

Apple is attempting to avoid an anti-trust probe into its trade practices by revising some of the terms of its developer agreement, according to reports. It’s not clear which parts of the agreement would be revised, but government regulators are said to be interested in provisions in Apple’s iAd advertising program, as well as Apple’s decision [...]

More than half of all users of social networks in the U.S. are posting information that could put them at risk from cyber criminals, according to a Consumer Reports study. The magazine, which released its State of the Net survey today, noted that 52 percent of adults who use social networks, such as Facebook, Myspace, [...]

Microsoft has bought a first-class seat on the Flash Bashing Express with an official statement on its IEBlog. Apple’s sometimes-friend, sometimes-foe echoed ideas that Apple CEO Steve Jobs expressed in Thursday’s Thoughts on Flash essay and put its own stake in the ground for the future of Web technologies. Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s general manager of Internet Explorer, [...]