Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...

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 ...

Google has been embroiled in a complex lawsuit with Oracle over the Java programming language since 2010. The case centers on whether or not Google infringed on Oracle's copyright when it copied ...

Thus, when Google and its allies were in search of a programming foundation for Android -- something that could span a range of devices -- Java was a natural place to start. Indeed, in 2005, that ...

Google’s copying of the Java SE (Standard Edition) API, which included lines of code to allow programmers to work in a new and transformative program, was a fair use of that material, the court ...

Android is the world's most popular mobile phone OS and Java is the de facto programming language for Android application development. While Android's version of Java isn't exactly the same as what ...

Sun Microsystems made the Java programming language freely available in 1995, a strategic move designed to boost sales of other products and help defend Sun against competition from Microsoft.

Google's lawyers seemingly found other situations where Ellison changed his tune, for example on the nature of an Oracle and Google co-development project for Java.

Google's Go is the programming language of the year, according to the long-running Tiobe Index, a search-based ranking that gauges the popularity of top and emerging languages among developers ...