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• Could the world of software be drifting away from everything else?
  
  The Oracle lawsuit against Google for infringement of various software patents has sparked huge debate about software based litigation and indeed prompted many to question the overall nature of the software industry in relation to the context of the world in which we live. At the crux of all major issues relating to the advancement of [...]
  
• Oracle claim Google Android infringement of Java Intellectual Property
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10961705 A worrying development that raises concerns about the way in which Oracle might proceed to treat technologies that use Java. Presumably they are objecting to usage of similar programming patterns (or android compatible versions of Java API classes) that exist in the Java language?
  
• A bird in the hand…
  
  Lately I’ve been thinking about different types of software businesses and the strategies they use to make money. You might initially think: well that’s simple – write software, sell software, make money. In actual fact the manner in which software companies do turn a profit varies incredibly. Some ’startups’ make all their money out of getting [...]
  
• The Android SDK – a quick run-down of the features and quirks involved in developing android applications
  
  Firstly, in comparison to most other big tech companies google are great at helping developers get the most out of their APIs and software development kits. They obviously try quite hard to make developing applications using their technologies as straightforward as possible. However some of the features they do implement such as virtual testing environments, while [...]