Even Oracle might not have known what it had when it brought Google to trial, but when the trial began to turn around the idea of copyrighting APIs, it couldn't have gone better for an old-school enterprise software company with a lot to lose if the cloud and open source continue to take over IT.

How's this for hypocrisy: Mozilla says that Apple banning Firefox from iPads and iPhones is no problem, but Microsoft restricting the browser from using some features on some Windows 8 tablets may be illegal.

After 1 year of Release Candidates OrientDB reaches the 1.0! Many news like Multi-Master replication, new Object Database interface to bind POJO automatically without Hibernate, new Server Side Scripting feature and much more.

Two men in the United Kingdom who had lost their vision after birth due to a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa, wherein light-sensitive cells in the eye stop working, just received the gift of sight due to an innovative new microchip implant. Surgeons partially restored vision to both men by implanting tiny electronic chips (0.12 by 0.12 inches) in a thin sheet of tissue at the back of the men’s eyes. When switched on, the chips perform the duties of the malfunctioning photoreceptors, converting light into electrical impulses that travel to the brain. A thin cable threaded beneath the skin connects the chip to a battery back, which sits under the skin near the ear.

A couple months ago I briefly reviewed Machine Learning for Hackers by Drew Conway and John Myles White. Today I’m looking at Machine Learning in Action by Peter Harrington and comparing the two books.

There doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by without another development in the entire Java ecosystem in regards to Cloud. In this issue of Java Tech Journal, we attempt to distill the noise down for you - by looking at some of the most popular PaaS options. Articles featuring Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Cumulogic, CloudBees and a general overview of which PaaS is best for you

This post describes how to build out the person configuration item in Skybase using Spring Data Neo4j.

I’ll be attending CamelOne this year, and I’m pretty excited. I didn’t make it to the event last year, but judging by the speaker line up and the presentations given last year, this conference is definitely a must for developers involved in enterprise integration. Check out the presentations from last year. As you can see, the content covered is applicable even if you’re not using the Apache projects. But of course if you are, all the better.

Looks like after around a month of public beta, Fuse ESB Enterprise and Fuse MQ 7.0 have both been made generally available today according to a new announcement out of the CamelOne Conference.

The Silver Lining Blog's "Pie in the Sky" series offers readers a list of great links to articles related to current opinions and news on various cloud-related tools, platforms, and topics.

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the beta release of PostgreSQL 9.2, which will include major increases in performance and both vertical and horizontal scalability. The PostgreSQL Project asks all users to download and begin testing 9.2 Beta as soon as possible.

This is a continuation of a previous post that Guarav Mantri wrote concerning two popular cloud storage services offered by Microsoft and Amazon. Get to know the differences here.

The Dart team published version 0.09 of the young language’s specification last week, featuring a number of new rules. As of Saturday, abstract and interface elements may both specify default values, the ‘~/’ operator can be applied to doubles and factories may be used for abstract class instantiation.

Introducing Agile with YouTrack 4.0 - JetBrains' intelligent and fast-flying bug & issue tracker. Hurry up to book your seat for the exclusive online preview of the upcoming YouTrack version completely devoted to Agile project management. In this one-hour session we’ll walk through the main stages of release/sprint planning, using Scrum/Kanban board along with Burn Down and Cumulative Flow charts that help you visualize your team’s progress. All that with YouTrack’s keyboard-centric navigation, advanced search capabilities and commands. Since this topic is really hot, please register in advance, we've got a limited places available!

Oracle offered closing statements in the second phase of the trial, claiming Google infringed upon two patents related to the Java Virtual Machine.

Its out of beta and up for grabs...ColdFusion 10 has been released! (I make a small appearance in the intro video as well.) So what is ColdFusion 10? Lets start with looking at the new features.

OPS: For the sake of this discussion... What do you mean when you say "private cloud, public cloud and data center"? CLOUDIFY: A data center is a bunch of machines that are running most of the time. It could be a bare-bones data center or a virtualized data-center. A private cloud is a data center that has an API for provisioning machines on-demand. It takes away the need to manually decide which VM runs on which physical machine for which user. A public cloud is like a private cloud, but each machine is billed by the hour.

Some more cool news has come out of this week's Lucene Revolution conference related to their theme of 'Solr's not just for search, it's for analytics. In addition to their Solr-as-a-Service cloud search platform, which is basically LucidWorks Enterprise on the cloud, Lucid Imagination has now announced the beta release of LucidWorks Big Data.

This week we look at how to hire a good mobile programmer, a round up of Big Data vendors and a new semantic search tool.

# WebGL Jobs is getting off to a good start, with three jobs listed since Tuesday. # Collin Hover’s work-in-progress game, Kai ‘Opua (“clouds over the ocean” in Hawaiian), is fun, engaging, and will be free/open forever.

To celebrate its sixth month on the web, Windows Phone Parent has launched Familia Windows Phone, the first Spanish review site for Windows Phone apps that enhance the lives of kids and their parents. The Spanish counterpart of Windows Phone Parent, Familia Windows Phone caters directly to key markets like Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Spain, and its launch has been described as a logical next step for the Windows Phone Parent team.

Ice Cream Sandwich update is coming to the Galaxy Note, except in the US where AT&T is still working on the roll out.