Neowin News Feed for: Oracle

Microsoft hires former Oracle exec to be North American sales leader

John Callaham — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:53:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it has hired Judson Althoff as its new president of its North America Sales and Marketing, after previously working for 14 years at Oracle. Read more...

Two more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java, seemingly

Paul Ferson — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:02:49 +0000

Oracle's most famous product, Java, has a few more woes to add to its past week after a Polish security firm discovered two more potential weaknesses hackers could use in future attacks. Read more...

Microsoft reportedly teams up with Oracle in Google legal fight

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:31:34 +0000

A new report claims that Microsoft has decided to take Oracle's side in the company's lawsuit against Google over Google's use of Java in the Android operating system. Read more...

Less than a week after fix, Java is broken yet again

Christopher White — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:01:10 +0000

Another day, another Java security flaw. To quote the movie Wargames, "the only winning move is not to play." In this case, that means to constantly update Java and use it only if absolutely necessary Read more...

Despite Java weekend update, security issues remain

John Callaham — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:26:06 +0000

Oracle released a new update for Java over the weekend that fixes some exploits, but security experts believe PC running Java are still vulnerable to cyber attacks. Read more...

Disable Java, warns US government

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:41:53 +0000

The United States government is warning PC users to disable Java on their machines, as a recently discovered flaw in the latest unpatched version is being exploited in the wild by hackers. Read more...

US Presidential debate most tweeted political event ever

Christopher White — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:54:21 +0100

As the micro-blogging site continues to grow, more and more people are sharing their thoughts with the world. Last night's presidential debate generated 10.3 million tweets, a new political record. Read more...

Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle and Infosys Keynote

Christopher White — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:39:45 +0100

Join us at 2:45pm PT (5:45pm ET) for a liveblog of Larry Ellison's keynote. He'll be joined by Infosys CEO S. D. Shibulal, and they will be discussing the cloud and built-in BI, social, and mobile. Read more...

Oracle OpenWorld: Larry will be Larry

Christopher White — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:57:38 +0100

Oracle OpenWorld is the annual conference where the company announces its new products and strategies. It's also traditionally the time when CEO Larry Ellison throws his partners under the bus. Read more...

Nokia Maps to become default location provider for Oracle

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:04:05 +0100

Oracle will officially be switching to Nokia's mapping and location services. The move was confirmed today and is expected to be publicly announced tomorrow at Oracle OpenWorld. Read more...

Oracle OpenWorld: Larry Ellison Keynote (Live)

Christopher White — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:33:32 +0100

Larry Ellison's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld will begin at 8pm ET/5pm CT. Join us here to see what the company's future plans are regarding Big Data, Cloud Computing, databases, and more. Read more...

Oracle OpenWorld: Setting up for the show

Christopher White — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:43:25 +0100

We're on the ground in San Francisco as Oracle finishes up the final setups for the OpenWorld conference. Looking at the setup, it's easy to see what Oracle is selling. Read more...

Oracle OpenWorld: Topics we'll be exploring

Christopher White — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:04:34 +0100

Oracle OpenWorld starts next Sunday, and we'll be there to listen to everything Larry Ellison has to say about Java, databases, and their love of Google's products. Read more...

Critical Java exploit found, puts 1 billion computers at risk

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:55:15 +0100

A security researcher has discovered another zero-day security exploit in Java, one that affects pretty much every Java version across every browser - putting around one billion computers at risk Read more...

Google asked to pay $0 to Oracle over Java API claims

Christopher White — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:11:54 +0100

In the continuing argument between Google and Oracle over Java APIs, Google has been requested to pay $0 to Oracle. The judge is also leaving open the possibility of Oracle paying all lawyer fees. Read more...

OpenOffice gets most of its downloads from Windows users

John Callaham — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:42:52 +0100

A new report claims that the new version of the open source-based OpenOffice software suite gets 87 percent of its downloads from Windows users, with only two percent from Linux users. Read more...

Jury issues partial verdict in favor of Oracle against Google

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:04:09 +0100

In a controversial ruling in the Oracle v. Google Java lawsuit, the jury issued a partial verdict in favor of Oracle. The jury's results have prompted Google to motion for a mistrial. Read more...

Google lost over $97.7 million on Android in 2010

Tyler Holman — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:49:45 +0100

The judge presiding over Oracle's lawsuit against Google regarding Google's use of Java revealed that Google lost money on Android during every quarter of 2010, despite revenue of $97.7 million Read more...

EU court rules programming languages can't be copyrighted

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:19:44 +0100

The highest court in the European Union ruled yesterday that programming languages cannot be copyrighted, although original works created from programming languages can be. Read more...

Does Google make more money off iOS than Android?

John Callaham — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:22:23 +0100

A new article claims that as part of a settlement offer with Oracle, Google shows that it makes less money off its Android OS than it does offering services like Google Maps to Apple's iOS devices. Read more...