The trial of the ongoing legal case between Google and Oracle over Java APIs’ infringement has taken a rather interesting twist. Oracle acquired Java when it acquired Sun since Sun created Java. But now, former CEO of Sun, Jonathan Schwartz, has appeared in the trial and spoken in favor of Google, stating that Java, and its APIs, were meant to be free.
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If you share your printer at home or at work with few people you maybe have a need to protect it and limit a number of people who can have the access to your printer. This will help you to protect your digital material and also save your ink and paper. In this tutorial I will show you how you can use two different options in Windows 7 and protect your printer. One of options is using a third party app which you need to install on your computer while second option is using a few changes inside Windows itself.
Huawei has been trying to expand its influence and reach out to an international audience for quite some time. Though the company has stuck to Android for quite some time, apparently it has plans of entering the realm of Windows 8 devices. This has been divulged by a report in WPDang.
Yesterday, the UK White Space consortium has declared more than 10 months of technology trials in urban and rural areas in and around Cambridge, England was a success. The consortium exploring and measuring rural wireless broadband, urban pop-up coverage and the emerging communication technologies, declared that TV white spaces has the ability to accelerate the demand for wireless connectivity fast.
Yesterday, Facebook announced the opening of the Facebook Anti-Virus Marketplace or The AV Marketplace, in short. The marketplace is developed in collaboration with five industry partners specializing in digital security software. The marketplace is targeted as Facebook users who aren’t using any security solution to protect themselves from cyber crime.
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Windows 7 includes a new way to share data between all the computers in the house thanks to the HomeGroup. But only computers which are running Windows 7 can join the HomeGroup and enjoy the new features for sharing, playing media files remotely, etc… If you have computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista in same network with Windows 7, you can still share your files and printers with Windows 7 and in this tutorial I will show you how.
When the content producers actively lobbied in favor of SOPA and initially had Washington on their side, a lot of us did realize that Silicon Valley had a very limited influence in Congress. Although one of the tech giants, Google, went for a blackout which had a massive, perhaps decisive impact on the whole SOPA issue. But it seems that Google has realized that a well-established relationship with lawmakers is critically important.
Microsoft and Nokia have spent a lot of their energy, time and money on making the flagship Windows Phone lineup, Nokia Lumia, a success. Whereas Lumia devices are far from being a great success, carriers are already of the opinion that Lumia phones are ‘not good enough’ to compete against Apple and Android mobile devices.