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The Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling on copyright infringement dispute between tech giants Google and Oracle regarding whether the copyright laws can be used to block a competitor from using a company’s code in a software Application Programming Interface

Techies give an old fashioned Supreme Court decent marks in coding case John Fritze, USA TODAY Replay Video WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices are among the nations foremost legal minds. But just how good are the nine members of the court at computer programming? Often teased for their ambivalence toward technology – Chief Justice John Roberts once asked a lawyer in 2010 to explain the difference between an email and a pager – the justices this week were forced to gra...

9 April 2021 Delivering an effective cyber security strategy within healthcare Kevin Curran, IEEE senior member and professor of cyber security at Ulster University, discusses the delivery of an effective cyber security strategy within healthcare An effective strategy is vital to long-term protection of healthcare data. Just a few months ago, the UK Government announced a new NHS England app that will enable patients to book appointments directl...

Obinna Chima writes on the benefits of the recently introduced Nigeria Quick Response Code in the country, which is expected to improve settlement, promote financial inclusion, help bring cash-related activities into the ecosystem for a better economy and reduce the cost of processing cash There is no doubt that over the years, Nigeria has made noticeable progress in its desire to create a robust payment system through several reforms targeted at restoring confidence in the system. Indeed, a so...

EMEA sees 945% spike in security attacks in 2 years DUBAI, 4 hours, 1 minutes ago The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region experienced the biggest jump in its percentage of Denial-of-Service (DoS) incidents since 2018, rising from 2.2% to 23% in 2020, representing a 945% spike, making it the second most targeted region for DoS attacks after Asia Pacific, China and Japan, a report said. DoS and password login attacks such as brute force and credential stuffing are on the rise, accordi...

Read later Audio version Summary: In a wide-ranging interview, Snaplogic CEO Gaurav Dhillon discusses how to avoid chaos at scale when moving enterprise IT to API-centric integration (© Duda Vasilii - shutterstock) Have we got the wrong end of the stick when we think about integration in enterprise IT? Based on the acronyms we use, its always been about connecting applications — whether youre using legacy EAI tools (as in Enterprise Application Integration) or taking a more modern API-cent...

Google defeats Oracle in copyright fight at US Supreme Court Published  article An undated file image shows the company logo at Googleplex, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) A clash between tech behemoths Google, LLC and Oracle America, Inc. ended Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Googles copying of 11,500 lines of Oracles code for the Andro...

How Google’s Big Supreme Court Victory Could Change Software Forever Time 1 hr ago Madeleine Carlisle © Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg —Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020—the day oral arguments took place in Google and Oracles multibillion-dollar copyright dispute. The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Google this week in a major decision that some legal experts are hailing as a victory for programmers and consumers. The Court rul...

Investing in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province: China City Spotlight Investing in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province: China City Spotlight April 6, 2021 Posted by China Briefing Written by Zoey Zhang Reading Time: 5 minutes We profile the reasons why foreign companies should consider investing in Hangzhou, a leading  industrial, technology, and digital economy center in China’s Yangtze River Delta area. Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province, has be...

The U.S. Supreme Court said Google's use of a Java API falls under fair use. This decision is the culmination of a long-running legal battle between Google and Oracle and possibly sets a precedent.