Sun Microsystems Inc. said a federal court order that forces Microsoft Corp to include Sun's Java programming language with Microsoft's Windows operating system would "preserve competition." Sun, responding to Microsoft's request to the 4th US.
Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an injunction, said the lower court's actions were in the interest of competition because the harm confronting Sun is "so egregious and irremediable."
Microsoft, whose Windows operating system powers 95 percent of the world's personal computers, has said in court papers the decision by a US court in Baltimore forcing the company to include the Java programming language in Windows would hurt its business.
Sun and Microsoft are competing for customers in the emerging market for Web services such as buying airline tickets, booking restaurant tables or making other purchases.
Sun said in court papers filed with the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, that Judge J. Frederick Motz's decision on the Java issue was well-reasoned and would ensure Sun's ability to compete with Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker.
"Each day that Microsoft is allowed to exploit the competitive disadvantages its illegal acts have inflicted on the Java platform, Sun continues to lose developers, end-users and good will in the marketplace," Santa Clara, California-based Sun said in court papers.
Among the rows of vibrators, rubber torsos and leather harnesses at a Chinese sex toys exhibition in Shanghai this weekend, the beginnings of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shift in the industry quietly pulsed. China manufactures about 70 percent of the world’s sex toys, most of it the “hardware” on display at the fair — whether that be technicolor tentacled dildos or hyper-realistic personalized silicone dolls. Yet smart toys have been rising in popularity for some time. Many major European and US brands already offer tech-enhanced products that can enable long-distance love, monitor well-being and even bring people one step closer to
Malaysia’s leader yesterday announced plans to build a massive semiconductor design park, aiming to boost the Southeast Asian nation’s role in the global chip industry. A prominent player in the semiconductor industry for decades, Malaysia accounts for an estimated 13 percent of global back-end manufacturing, according to German tech giant Bosch. Now it wants to go beyond production and emerge as a chip design powerhouse too, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. “I am pleased to announce the largest IC (integrated circuit) Design Park in Southeast Asia, that will house world-class anchor tenants and collaborate with global companies such as Arm [Holdings PLC],”
Sales in the retail, and food and beverage sectors last month continued to rise, increasing 0.7 percent and 13.6 percent respectively from a year earlier, setting record highs for the month of March, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday. Sales in the wholesale sector also grew last month by 4.6 annually, mainly due to the business opportunities for emerging applications related to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing technologies, the ministry said in a report. The ministry forecast that retail, and food and beverage sales this month would retain their growth momentum as the former would benefit from Tomb Sweeping Day
Thousands of parents in Singapore are furious after a Cordlife Group Ltd (康盛人生集團), a major operator of cord blood banks in Asia, irreparably damaged their children’s samples through improper handling, with some now pursuing legal action. The ongoing case, one of the worst to hit the largely untested industry, has renewed concerns over companies marketing themselves to anxious parents with mostly unproven assurances. This has implications across the region, given Cordlife’s operations in Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The parents paid for years to have their infants’ cord blood stored, with the understanding that the stem cells they contained