After U. S. District Judge William Alsup sternly rebuked Oracle for going on a "fishing expedition" for damages that were apparently beyond the standard sum for copyright infringement, Oracle has now gone for broke in its high-profile Java lawsuit against Google.

Making an all-or-next-to-nothing bet in its legal scuffle with Google, Oracle said in a Tuesday statement that in case Judge Alsup says in his verdict that the Java APIs are not subject to copyright, the company will withdraw its claim for extensive damages from Google for violating copyrights pertaining to other Java components.

Facebook recently announced its decision to open its own app store called App Center to help people find Facebook apps, Web apps, and mobile apps at one place, but some experts see some other reasons behind the social-networking site's recent move.

Some analysts see Facebook's App Center as an answer to Zynga's recent launch of its own social game portal on Zynga. com. Zynga. com is Facebook-friendly, but no one knows when the friendship between the two may end. Around 15 per cent of Facebook's first quarter revenues were from Zynga games.

The Man Group, the London-based publicly traded hedge fund, yesterday faced an investor rebellion over pay.

Fifteen per cent shareholders failed to back Man's remuneration report as the group’s shares shed another $1 billion (around £617m) in the first three months of 2012.

Chief Executive Peter Clarke, who has been given nine months by impatient shareholders to turn the ship around, pocketed up a $1 million in salary and $2 million in bonus & deferred shares for last year, along with $4 million in shares to be awarded depending on the group’s performance.

According to the findings of the Energy Department's Monday-released weekly survey, the previous week witnessed a continuation in the plunge in retail gasoline prices all across the US, including California.

With the HTC design team laying specific emphasis on touchscreens at the recent Frequencies media summit in Seattle, it is being assumed that the handset-maker may well have been over and done with QWERTY keyboards.

With the customers' demand for fuel-efficient cars witnessing a notable rise in the month of March, thanks largely to the soaring gas prices, General Motors (GM) revealed on Monday that its sales during the month were boosted notably by gas-sipping cars.

According to a new analysis by Lookout Mobile Security, US smartphone users are seemingly prone to losing their handsets nearly once a year; with the result that their two-year contracts become null and void, and they have to shell out additional amounts to either buy a new smartphone or go in for a used replacement device.

Rebuffing reports about the possibility that an Xbox 360 upgrade may likely be unveiled at the annual video game conference - the E3 Expo, which will be held in Los Angeles in June -, Microsoft said in a Monday statement that it currently has no plans to come out with a new Xbox gaming console anytime soon.

According to a recent announcement by Samsung, the company's smartphone-tablet hybrid Galaxy Note - which was launched in the US and Europe a few months back - has finally hit the Australian market.

The part-phone, part-tablet Galaxy Note will be available in Australia from this week from Optus and Vodafone with a price-tag of $899 outright. While the Optus offer for the device includes $0 on its 2-year $79 cap plan; the Vodafone offer includes $5 on its 2-year $59 cap plan.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD, is something that is found among younger children in a class as compared to their older classmates, researchers have stated. It has also been suggested that ADHD is not the problem but immaturity might be.

A study was conducted by researchers on Canadian children and there were over 900,000 children and they all were six to 12 years of age. This there have been two earlier studies also that were carried out in the US and this one dovetails with them.