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Oracle has taken another blow in its lawsuit against Google over Android, an even bigger one than before. The jury found that Google did not infringe on Oracle's patents with Android.
This, combined with the fact that the jury only found that Google infringed on Oracle's copyright in a very small way, mak... |
24 May 2012
08:20 GMT |
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A new maintenance release has been rolled out for VirtualBox, incrementing the build number to 4.1.16. As usual, it addresses issues affecting components, such as Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) or VRDP (VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol).In the case of 3D support, the current release brings to the table several fixes... |
23 May 2012
11:52 GMT |
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Google threatened that it was going to call for a mistrial in the copyright infringement lawsuit from Oracle and indeed it has, presenting papers to the court asking it to put the issue of whether it infringed on Oracle's copyright with its Java API in Android through a new trial.
The jury found that Google was... |
9 May 2012
10:14 GMT |
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The Oracle vs. Google trial has reached a critical state, the jury decided on the copyright infringement matter. The jury did find that Google copied some code from Oracle and the design of the APIs, however, it could not decide whether the copying was "fair use" or not. As such, even though the jury found Google gui... |
8 May 2012
08:40 GMT |
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On Friday Apple rolled out the last two Java seeds for Snow Leopard and Lion to be tested and later released as the final versions of the runtime before Oracle takes full responsibility of Java fo Mac.With the Flashback Trojan infecting over half a million Macs through a Java vulnerability, Apple is no longer willing... |
5 May 2012
10:27 GMT |
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In the April 2012 Critical Patch Update (CPU) released by Oracle, the company claimed to have addressed a TNS Listener issue that had affected the Oracle Database since 2008. However, the researcher who uncovered the flaw has learned that the patch is only applied to future variants of the application and not to exis... |
27 April 2012
11:01 GMT |
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A new build for VirtualBox is now available for download. It is a maintenance release, so its purpose is to fix things up and improve overall stability of the application.
The list of changes for VirtualBox 4.1.14 is quite brief and touches on the network component, where the problem with packet larger than MTU-4 wh... |
27 April 2012
10:46 GMT |
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Oracle has announced plans to support Mac OS X with the release of Java SE 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1 for developers. Apple stopped developing its Java updates almost two years ago, as the company was always one step behind the current version available on all other platforms. “Oracle today announced the availa... |
27 April 2012
07:54 GMT |
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Oracle's lawsuit against Google, over Java used in Android, is underway. Oracle is alleging that Android violates several Java patents and that it even copied some code wholesale. Google, on the other hand, argues that there is no copyright for APIs and all it did was use open tools and technology in Android.
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18 April 2012
08:20 GMT |
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Oracle is urging customers to apply the April 2012 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which addresses a number of 88 security holes that affect several products.
The affected pieces of software include versions of Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle DB UM Connector for Oracle Identity M... |
18 April 2012
07:42 GMT |
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Vulnerability Lab researcher Shadab Siddiqui found multiple Blind SQL Injection flaws in four websites owned by Oracle. Steve Meert, part of Oracle’s security team, worked closely with Benjamin Kunz Mejri to address the issues. The security holes were identified by Siddiqui at the end of March. One day after ... |
12 April 2012
02:46 GMT |
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Oracle just released a minor update for their virtualization software, VirtualBox. Since it is a maintenance release, no new features are available, just fixes and improvements. The modifications available in VirtualBox 4.1.12 squash bugs affecting the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and touch on the audio component, ... |
2 April 2012
10:42 GMT |
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Marking one of the rare cases when an antitrust lawsuit actually ends instead of being started, Micron and Oracle have reached a settlement in their antitrust battle. With all the legal fights going on, there are few occasions where we can actually sit back and say that progress is being made. As such, Micron and... |
30 March 2012
12:41 GMT |
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VirtualBox 4.1.10 has been rolled out recently as a maintenance release tackling various issues, from 3D-related problems to guest control problems. However, there are plenty of additions, referring to Linux, Windows, OS X and Solaris.
Among the most important additions available on all supported platforms is suppor... |
14 March 2012
09:43 GMT |
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The grey hat known as D35m0nd142 managed to gain unauthorized access to the sites of the United Nations (un.org), Skype (skype.com) and Oracle (oracle.com). On the official Skype site, the hacker found Blind SQL injection vulnerabilities that allowed him to access their webserver. “In Skype I've found a... |
29 February 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Members of TeamHav0k identified another series of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in high-profile websites, including Oracle.com, FCC.gov and NFL.com.
While in the case of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Football League (NFL) the security holes were present on subdomains, in the case ... |
13 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The whole battle that HP is locked in against Oracle is something of a sore spot for both companies, and the former's CEO, Meg Whitman, had some things to say on the matter.
Meg Whitman recently agreed to an interview with CRN, where she talked about both past and future HP activities.
Among the questions tha... |
4 February 2012
06:39 GMT |
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One wouldn't think that a server processor could cause such a big fuss, but the whole Itanium debacle has gotten very heated, leading to a direct clash between Oracle and HP, the latter having, apparently, gained the upper hand.
This isn't a case of patent infringement, like the quarrel between Samsung an... |
1 February 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Researchers from the Vulnerability Laboratory have found that two other important public websites are vulnerable to remote attacks. This time, the sites belonging to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Oracle Solutions were identified as containing security flaws. Ucha Gobejishvili, also known as longrifl... |
28 January 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Oracle released the January Critical Patch Update (CPU) which addresses a number of 78 new security flaws across a large number of product families.
This quarter’s CPU resolves some important vulnerabilities, some of which may allow an attacker to remotely exploit a system.
Oracle Database, Oracle Outside, O... |
18 January 2012
05:09 GMT |
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Oracle revealed the security vulnerabilities that are about to be addressed with the release of the January 2012 Critical Patch Update.
The 78 weaknesses currently affect hundreds of Oracle products which is why it’s important that users update their software to make sure they’re protected against cyber... |
13 January 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Oracle released a new build for their virtualization product, branch 4.0, making the version number 4.0.16. It is a maintenance release aimed at improving overall stability and to fix regressions.
VRDP repairs are at the top of the list (screen corruption and screen freeze), but fixes include other parts of the bund... |
12 January 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Oracle announced that VirtualBox, a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprises and end users, has just reached version 4.1.8. Oracle implemented a lot of changes, and VirtualBox 4.1.8 is the proof that they are working hard to improve it. Here are some of the features of VirtualBox 4.1.8:· ... |
20 December 2011
07:37 GMT |
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Canonical announced a few hours ago, December 15th, that it will remove all Sun JDK (Java Development Kit) packages from the Canonical Partner repository.Because Oracle retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java", Canonical no longer has permission to redistribute new Java packages.Therefore, in the n... |
16 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The entire confrontation between Oracle on one side and HP and Intel on the other has not waned, but HP is determined to keep the Itanium going.
In comes project Odyssey, a new development roadmap that will somehow combine the Itanium platform with Intel Xeon processors.
Oracle already said that everything Itaniu... |
24 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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HP may be paying Intel to keep making Itanium processors, and is supposed to keep doing so for years, but it might soon come to pass that this isn't a viable marketing tactic anymore.
For those who don't know or remember, Oracle, earlier this year (2011) said it was no longer making new software for Itani... |
23 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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HP and Oracle have been exchanging barbs over the Itanium server processor platform for months, and the latest, big accusations from Oracle turned out to be true.
Granted, as with any court bashing, each side is doing its best to make its case as big and strong as possible.
Oracle took its turn the other day, say... |
23 November 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Last evening, November 9th, the Oracle Corporation proudly announced the immediate availability for download of their brand-new Oracle Solaris 11 cloud operating system.Oracle Solaris 11 is the first cloud OS from Oracle, supporting the security, scalability and performance requirements of cloud-based deployments.Wit... |
10 November 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Oracle's vice president of systems business recently shed some light on the company's policy regarding x86 servers, as it stated during a keynote speech that even if the company is not too interested in selling commodity x86 servers it's still willing to use these chips in machines running Oracle softw... |
5 October 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Oracle came out with a new release for its virtualization software, VirtualBox. The modifications include plenty of fixes and changes that affect all major platforms it’s been designed for (Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris).As far as the interface is concerned, from now on users should be warned when upon an ... |
4 October 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Oracle just announced the company will speed up the development of its next-generation SPARC T5 processor, which is expected to deliver higher performance thanks to the move to the 28nm process technology.Oracle has published its SPARC server processor roadmap in August of last year, and vowed to deliver a SPARC T-se... |
29 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Oracle did say it intends to release the new SPARC Supercluster at some point in the fourth quarter of 2011 and, for now, things appear to be going smoothly, with no delays in sight.
The supercomputing market is one that, like all other segments of the industry, has been advancing and growing more and more divers... |
23 September 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Oracle has recently let the whole world know that it has no interest in continuing with the development of Sun servers based on the x86 architecture as the company regards these as “commodity” items with low profit margins."I do not care if our commodity x86 business goes to zero. We do not make any mone... |
21 September 2011
09:32 GMT |
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The notorious Apache Killer that's been used for DoS attacks on HTTP servers met its doom after Oracle released a patch that should cover all the remaining holes, even some left untouched by the previous fix issued by the Apache Foundation.
Because they widely implement Apache, their applications were affecte... |
17 September 2011
04:50 GMT |
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The Oracle - Google patent lawsuit is great fodder for sensationalist headlines and some of the recent developments are quite interesting, like the fact that a Google engineer admitted that he had access to Sun (now part of Oracle) Java code when writing Google's version.
Less shocking and revealing, despite ... |
8 September 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Intel may still be speaking of the Itanium and that it plans to keep pushing it forward, but the waves caused by Oracle's decision to drop support for it were far reaching enough that HP's revenues swayed.HP and Oracle ended up taking things to court after the latter said it would no longer support the In... |
20 August 2011
05:36 GMT |
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According to a report from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, the most common unpatched vulnerabilities detected on people's computers are in Adobe and Oracle products.At the top of the list is the SING 'uniqueName' buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2010-2883) which affects older versions of Adobe Reader... |
19 August 2011
15:22 GMT |
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The Hot Chips conference may be going about its business, but it looks like the participants are all showing a remarkable lack of any new chips, as well as scarce information on upcoming models.International trade shows and conferences are usually an occasion where participants unveil the results of their latest res... |
19 August 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Oracle Linux 5.7, a Red Hat Enterprise clone created by Oracle, has been released. The latest version brings all of the new features and fixes found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, which has been available for a little over a week, plus a few patches of its own.
For all intents and purposes, it is fully compatibl... |
2 August 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Oracle has just released its quarterly security update addressing 78 vulnerabilities across its entire range of products, many of which are rated critical."Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply CPU [Critical Patch Update] fixes as soon as possible," the compan... |
20 July 2011
13:50 GMT |
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Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.0.12, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4 which improves stability and fixes regressions. The new version also fixes some compatibility issues with OS X Lion, the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system.
Released last week, VirtualBox 4.0.12 for Mac OS X is label... |
18 July 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Oracle is preparing to release a monster security update next Tuesday in order to patch tens of vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of its products. "This Critical Patch Update contains 78 new security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle products. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this Critical P... |
15 July 2011
10:50 GMT |
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In the latest episode of the dispute caused by Oracle dropping the Itanium platform, the lawsuit started by HP has earned the name of “abuse,” not that it has a chance to stop the legal proceedings any time soon.Some time ago, a fairly heated dispute awoke on the enterprise IT segment when Oracle decided... |
1 July 2011
03:58 GMT |
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HP and Oracle have been snapping at each other for months ever since the latter dropped Itanium support, and it looks like the conflict has finally gotten to the point of legal action, started by the former.Users keeping track of the happenings on the server market might know of the tensions between HP and Oracle.Th... |
16 June 2011
03:41 GMT |
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After several months of tensions and controversy, Oracle is now announcing that it will be donating OpenOffice.org in its entirety to the Apache Software Foundation to be part of the group's incubator program. The move comes after Oracle's clear disinterest in the office suite along with some moves which hu... |
2 June 2011
05:53 GMT |
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Oracle Linux 6.1, Oracle's Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, is now available for download, just a couple of weeks after RHEL 6.1 became available. Since Oracle doesn't stray too much from the original, there aren't any big changes compared to RHEL 6.1, apart from Oracle's own "Unbreakable Enterpris... |
1 June 2011
09:40 GMT |
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A new release of VirtualBox is available for Mac OS X from Oracle developers who’ve highlighted a trio of Mac-specific changes, as well as numerous general enhancements and fixes affecting all supported platforms.
Labeled as a maintenance release, VirtualBox 4.0.8 fixes incompatibility with recent Mac OS X v... |
18 May 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Customers looking to make the jump to Microsoft’s on-premise and Cloud data platforms can access version 5.0 of the SQL Server Migration Assistant to ease the migration process from their existing solution. SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.0 comes with support for Sybase, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Access, si... |
4 May 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Oracle has just released its quarterly security update addressing 73 vulnerabilities across its entire range of products, many of which are rated critical.Six vulnerabilities were fixed in the Oracle Database Server. Two of them are remotely exploitable without authentication and the highest CVSS score of these flaws... |
20 April 2011
11:00 GMT |
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It appears that Oracle really did step on some toes when it announced that it no longer planned to develop software for Intel's Itanium server platform, enough so that some clients are now demanding that it reconsider.The server market might not usually grab much attention compared to the consumer segment, but ... |
15 April 2011
04:27 GMT |
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