Oracle’s Suit Against Android Could Split Open Source Oracle’s suit against Google for the use of Java in its Android portable operating system continues to reverberate through the open-source movement. In the newest development, Google has declined to participate in the upcoming JavaOne conference, an event formerly hosted by Java creator Sun Microsystems and now run by Sun’s new owner, Oracle. Joshua Bloch of Google’s Open Source Programs Office, in a posting Friday on the company’s open-source blog, wrote that Google wished it could attend, “but Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally.” Bloch noted that the company had attended every JavaOne event since 2004.

. “BlackSun was honored to be on the TMR car at Chicagoland this weekend,” BlackSun chief executive officer Steve Rogoschewsky said in a statement

Russian Document Leaks IE9 Interface and Features With the beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 scheduled for release on Sept. 15, a new document from Microsoft Russia has surfaced that indicates the user interface and other details.

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Nominet has begun the non-executive director election process and posted papers for its papers for their Annual General Meeting to be held on 6 July. Writing in The Register, Kieren McCarthy says there are seven candidates for two positions, “but despite efforts to revitalise the organisation after several years of infighting, voters will be disappointed to see a cast of the usual suspects on the ballot. Five of the seven candidates were members of Nominet’s recently wound-up Policy Advisory Body (PAB) — whose insider culture eventually caused it to implode.” McCarthy examines the background to the candidates and looks at some of the issues that have come up involving candidates

3 Reasons Google’s Chrome Web Apps Store Will Be A Hit Google this week shed a little light on its upcoming Google Chrome Web Store, an application marketplace slated to hit Google’s Chrome Web browser – and the upcoming Chrome OS – later this year. With app stores taking center stage Apple set the gold standard with its iTunes-based App Store for the Apple iPhone and iPad a Chrome application marketplace was a natural progression for Google. And while the search giant offered only a very small peek into the Chrome Web Store, which will feature free and paid apps, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco this week, here are three reasons Google has a winner on its hands

New HTML Version Comes With Security Risks Of Its Own Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 will support it, and Microsoft recently touted its advantages. But the upcoming version of HTML, which builds rich Internet application features into the Web programming language and shifts more Web functions to the client machine, also could open up new Web attack vectors. Security experts say HTML 5, which comes with rich Internet application features baked in, will not only provide better performance and multimedia features, such as video, but also will eliminate the need to manage and maintain browser plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Equinix Expands New York Data Center News: Equinix Expands New York Data Center News: Secret Service to Provide Data to Verizon Business for Upcoming Report on Data Breaches News: Cisco and EMC Name VCE Coalition Head, Acadia CEO News: DataChambers Secures Financing for $9M Bunker Data Center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — On Monday, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 became available to MSDN and TechNet  subscribers in Enterprise, Standard, Web, and Workgroup editions, as well as the new Developer edition . And, while it eases the burden of managing, accessing and delivering information organization wide, users may find that the cost of running their operations in some virtualized Microsoft SQL Server configurations could, in fact, balloon with the latest release

Why business users and IT get riled up over the iPad With the release of a new video demonstrating the formidable capabilities of the upcoming HP Slate tablet PC, followed by the leak of a document comparing the specs of the HP Slate and the Apple iPad head-to-head, battle lines are being drawn and passionate opinions expressed regarding which is superior. The problem is that the comparison is an apples-to-oranges one between devices with different target audiences and intended purposes.

Web hosting provider Eleven2 has said the company is now offering beta-test cloud servers. According to the news on WHIR, customers of Eleven2’s cloud server will have unlimited access to their server and downtime for users will be reduced.