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LG Officially Gives Up on Mobile Phones Apr 5, 2021 18:31 GMT      LG is done with mobile phones Everybody knew this was supposed to eventually happen, but LG officially confirmed it today: the company is giving up on smartphones, thus focusing on other product categories. It’s not a secret that LG hasn’t necessarily been a top performer in the smartphone business, and this has had a major impact on its long-term strategy and new product releases. The company has pushed back its most ...

The Supreme Court sided with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet companys creation of the Android operating system.

To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. But it also used 11,330 lines of code and an organization that’s part of Oracle’s Java platform.

iTWire Tuesday, 06 April 2021 04:11 Win for Google as Supreme Court rules copying of Java API code was fair use Featured Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay The US Supreme Court has come down on the side of Google in its long-running battle against Oracle, ruling on Monday that the copying of code from the Java API was a fair use of that material. "Google’s copying of the Java SE API, which included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to pu...

However, Google argued that they had simply copied a "method of operation", similar to a Qwerty keyboard or a gear stick in a car,  in order to let Android interface with Java, representing about 0.4pc of the code in the specific system at issue. Programming luminaries and open source software advocates hailed the decision as a victory for the ability of smaller competitors to build on widely-used code instead of starting from nothing. A judgement in Oracles favour  could also have disrupted...

LG's decision to close its smartphone business shows how challenging it is to compete with Apple and Samsung.

Samsung Galaxy S21 Selling Twice as Good as the Galaxy S20 Apr 5, 2021 18:36 GMT      Samsung Galaxy S21 We’ve known for a while that the Samsung Galaxy S21 is a hot seller in the United States, but new data shared by Counterpoint indicates that the device is selling twice better than its predecessor. The figures concern the first 6 weeks on the market, and the market research firm says the Galaxy S20 has been substantially hit by the global health issue, but on the other hand, the stro...

URL copied OnePlus 9, OnePlus 9 Pro receive software update with bug fixes, improvements. OnePlus has started rolling out a new software update for its recently launched smartphones, OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro. The update is being rolled out in phases and currently, it is available only for limited users right now. The new update -- OxygenOS 11.2.2.2 -- bumps up the Android security patch levels on both smartphones to March 2021 and comes with tonnes of improvements and bug fixes, GSMArena r...

Description The Cat S62 Pro sports a 5.7-inch 1080+ display and the Snapdragon 660 chipset can be found under the hood with 6GB of memory and 128GB of storage. There is a rear-facing 12MP sensor plus a separate thermal camera that will allow the user to overlay a thermal image over the regular pictures. A 4000mAh battery keeps the lights on. As a rugged device, the Cat S62 Pro is rated IP68 and IP69; the former means that the handset can be submerged to a depth of 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) ...

Google Is Restricting Apps From Seeing All Installed Apps For Privacy Google will now restrict Android apps from being able to see which all apps are installed on a smartphone. Akarsh Verma | April 4, 2021 | Updated 12:27 IST Highlights Google has announced an update to its Developer Program Policy. The policy update will help prevent applications from viewing which other apps are installed on an Android device. Apple made a similar change to its mobile operating system in 2015 to prevent adve...