Oracle Vs Google: The issue of copyrighting ideas

The issue of Oracle challenging Google on the use of Java APIs may, on the surface, appear to be a case of IT corporate establishing themselves on a common turf. However, the implications of these digital corporate wars are serious. The ongoing battle is for Oracle to gain complete control on Java programming language and for Google to establish that the components of the Java language it has used were already in the open source domain.

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Remotely Connect to your Desktop with These Apps | Android

There is a lot of stuff that people can do on their Android. This is the reason why most people connect to Android. I read an interesting quote in an article on a fun technical blog: If you want to impress nerds, get Android. That is so true. To impress girls, get iPhone… but to impress a more learned group, get Android.

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What You Can Do with Rooted Android

I’m sure you, as an average Android user, know what rooting is. But just to revive your memory- rooting means getting extra permissions and rights to use the phone software. With extra privileges, you can load your own custom software in the phone and increase its performance. You can even install some software for free that would otherwise cost you money. So basically, rooting means hacking.

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7 days in the cloud. Or so was my intention…

I have to be honest here and admit that my intention for this article was to spend 1 week using and solely relying online and cloud applications for my work and productivity. But only 2 days in to my experiment, things changed and many things become apparent to me. So read on, you may find this just a little bit interesting. And if you don’t, by all means let me know!

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Bye Bye Flash for Linux

According to a recent blog post from adobe, google and adobe are working on a single modern API for hosting plugins within the browser, the new plugin code-named “PEPPER” “aims to provide a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations.”

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Google Chrome for Android vs Opera Mini

Today is the day! Finally my favourite browser Google Chrome has hit the Android Market; well, when I am already quiet in habit of its rivals Opera Mini and Mozilla’s Firefox on my android device.  After working with the Chrome browser for the entire day I have gathered my impressions about the browser; what is good, what is yet to be improved. As I am mostly used to Opera Mini browser on my mobile devices, I shall compare the two browsers in my post.

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Android for Dummies- What Every Android User Should Know

A number of articles can be found over the internet that talk about Android apps, their reviews and various tips /tricks. However, there is a dearth of text that discusses Android OS based phones’ basic functionality. So here I am with some info meant for users who have recently switched from a normal phone to a cool Android one. In this text, I will discuss features which will help beginners to become familiar with their android handsets and to get hold of it.

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