Oracle Corp sued Google Inc, alleging patent and copyright infringement in the development of the popular Android smartphone software.

The suit, filed on Thursday in California federal court, claims that Google “knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property” in developing Android, Oracle spokeswoman Karen Tillman said in a statement. “This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies.”

Oracle acquired Java through its $5.6 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems earlier this year.
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8 inch VAIO P (Crystal White)

VAIO P in Crystal White puts the emphasis on purity and inner radiance. It is compact and lightweight so you’ll want to take it everywhere. Yet it offers a wide 8-inch wide LCD screen for viewing of Web pages side by side, and isolation keyboard for comfortable operation on the go.

• Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic
• 8″ wide (UWXGA: 1600 x 768)
• 60 GB (Ultra ATA/100, 4200 rpm) Hard Disk Drive
• Instant Mode
• Bluetooth standard Ver. 2.1+EDR
• Integrated Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11b/g/Draft n

As expected, at today’s event Amazon has unveiled the next generation of its portable e-book reading/distribution device, Kindle 2.0.

The device itself is definitely slicker (read: less ugly) than its predecessor; 0.36-inches thick, minimal design, curved lines. You could almost call it beautiful, if it weren’t so damn big compared to most other electronic portable devices nowadays. But, there’s a reason for it: it’s not just another e-book reader; it’s supposed to be the new book: at least Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wants us to believe that.

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Survey says, more and more people are turning into web to watch their most favorite tv show than tuning in to their television set at home or while in a vacation lying in your luxury hotel rooms. But instead people now will turn on their computer and search for live streaming, search for videos of the latest seasons and episodes of their show. So why do you think more humans turn on to web than our usual boob tube? Are we getting busier and busier that watching tv isn’t part of our daily routine and would just want to catch it up on the go or on our spare time? What do you think?

Nine year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore has a very unique canvas, his iPhone. He is fluent in six programing languages and started using computers at the age of 2. As of today he had completed 20 programing projects and his latest is a painting program called Doodle Kids.

Doodle Kids lets iPhone users draw by their fingers by touching the iPhone’s touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone.

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