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Google fails to settle with Oracle over Android, getting grilled on the Hill for antitrust issues today
Google's CEO Larry Page and Oracle's head honcho Larry Ellison sat yesterday in the same room, trying to reach a settlement agreement before they go to trial over purported Java code copied directly into the Android source code. Google stopped denying this is exactly what happened, but claims the damages caused are not in the realm of billions, as Oracle insists, but rather something in the $100 million ballpark. 

Obviously the meeting, mediated by Judge Paul Grewal, turned into a game of wolf eyes, but nobody blinked, so the talks will continue again today, with the hope to avert a full-blown trial. If Google is forced to start paying royalties, this could be another blow to Android as a free and open mobile OS, after Microsoft already managed to wrangle up to $5 payment from HTC for each Android phone it sells.

Google's other main man, Chairman Eric Scmidt, on the other hand, will be fending off criticism during a Congressional hearing today, which has antitrust and privacy issues as a topic. Rivals like Expedia, Nextag and Yelp are gunning for a lawsuit to coincide with the hearing, saying that Google is unfairly pushing up its own results. We feel for Expedia, since the free Google Flight Search just launched in limited beta, powered by the $700 million ITA acquisition, but if the folks at Mountain View feel they are doing a superior job, it would only be natural to list their results first. After all, when you type a flight search into Bing, it returns its own Bing Travel results first. 

We'll keep an eye what comes out of the Congressional hearing, but we've seen a number of those, including with Hank Paulson and Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis, and nothing major came out of it, while these guys had done much worse things than Google favoring its own services.

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1. iankellogg posted on 21 Sep 2011, 06:58

I bet if google left their search results to themselves google services would still rank near the top. Also google puts ads for their service in the premium links section which is basically the same thing the travel agencies could do.

2. remixfa posted on 21 Sep 2011, 07:01 2

normaly when i have to try a new service and there is a google option, i try the google option first, then the first name brand I recognize if i dont like the google option.

5. PeterIfromsweden posted on 21 Sep 2011, 07:53 1

Hey rimixfa. Go check the ipad article where we have been discussing...
You've got some answers from me there.

14. protozeloz posted on 21 Sep 2011, 09:55

I saw what you two where doing there..... I think you should leave this kinds of topics out of a technology site.......

Both should be working together to make things better

16. PeterIfromsweden posted on 21 Sep 2011, 10:06 1

I agree it was probably a little of topic : P

22. remixfa posted on 21 Sep 2011, 11:23

when it goes off the front page, its out of my mind. :) besides, its a circle arguement like ive said before. you cant do a single thing to change my mind nor vice versa.

28. Sniggly posted on 21 Sep 2011, 13:46

Hey Peter:

http://paleo.cc/paluxy/delk.htm

Don't even dare claim that you can't view non work related links, as you were obviously able to post links to your own nonsense.

Have a nice day.

30. remixfa posted on 21 Sep 2011, 13:54

sniggs, he probably has his links memorized :) lol

31. Sniggly posted on 21 Sep 2011, 13:57

Probably, lol. Although he also said in the iPad 3 thread that he was able to check his own links to ensure that they worked.

Oh, and I must say I have a smidgen more respect for Taco now that I know he's not a young earth creationist.

32. remixfa posted on 21 Sep 2011, 14:02

buzzed through it.
amazing, that article agrees with many of the comments i had after 30 seconds of looking at those photos.. foot formation, lack of depth and weight bearing impressions, ect ect ect.

look at something with an open mind and you will have questions. look at it with a closed mind and you will have answers.

34. Sniggly posted on 21 Sep 2011, 14:18

Yeah, after reading the article and looking through your subsequent responses to Peter I did notice the similarities, lol. Carl Baugh, the asshole who originally presented these footprints as proof of creationism, has been told to shut the f**k up even by OTHER CREATIONISTS.

37. PeterIfromsweden posted on 21 Sep 2011, 14:41

Let me guess, you got that info from Wikipedia, that Carl bough has been told to shut up by other creationists...

Wikipedia can't possible be used in any scientific matter, as they even have a disclaimer saying "WARNING USE WIKIPEDIA AT YOUR OWN RISK. The information at wikipedia is not guaranteed to be correct, and should not be taken for truth"

36. PeterIfromsweden posted on 21 Sep 2011, 14:38

"that article agrees with many of the comments i had after 30 seconds of looking at those photos"
That souldn't be really amazing at all.

All evolutionists try to come up with the same answer whenever they get proved wron, they start saying the evidence is fake even when it is not.

When it comes to foot formation, if you would have watched the whole video, you would have seen that the foot formation is what you would expect to find when looking at a human and dino footprints. Even the depths if the footprints was proven to be correct after doing scanning on the footprints.
How come you fail to mention this or recgonize this ?

35. PeterIfromsweden posted on 21 Sep 2011, 14:36

No, i can't view non work related links on my work computer.
I got those links via a friends computer.

39. Sniggly posted on 21 Sep 2011, 15:29 1

So find a library computer or something to look at the links from.

Or are you afraid of what you might see?

And Wikipedia has been proven to be about as accurate as Encyclopedia Brittanica unless you're talking about pop culture and pop culture figures.

56. PeterIfromsweden posted on 22 Sep 2011, 05:47

If you claim wikipedia is a reliable scientific source, well then sorry for you but you are then not scientific at all.

Wikipedia is one of the least reliable sources you can find. They even have a disclaimer saying that themselves.

40. PeterIfromsweden posted on 21 Sep 2011, 15:30

Sniggly and remixfa.
Some of these footprints have been discovered on the bottom of the paluxy river. In order to get to these footprints the scientists have been forced to pump out water of the river and put parts of the river dry.
How can you possibly suggest that these footprints are faked or carved or whatever, when they are discovered at the bottom of a river ???

Did someone scuba dive and carve them ?

Come on, you got to admit that these footprints are not faked, and are indeed good evidence that dinos and humans lived at the same time !

41. Droid_X_Doug posted on 21 Sep 2011, 16:01

What is with the hijacking of this thread?

51. PeterIfromsweden posted on 22 Sep 2011, 04:26

Dont know, Sniggly seems to have started it.

42. protozeloz posted on 21 Sep 2011, 16:10 2

Look guys, I beg you stop this fight. It's of topic and wayyyyyy of topic. I came here to see devices news articles and comments related with mobile tech. Here is this an Idea, add eachother to mail and argue for eternity. But keep the comments in here Relevant

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