Friday Recap: Apple Courts EPIX, Oracle Skirts Apple, Elgato Thunderbolt Cable

It’s the final Friday in April, and our news recap has a couple of deals, Java news, a Mac App Store milestone and new rumblings of that Apple HDTV that so many of us want to prop up in our living rooms later this year along with the Christmas trimmings. We’ll be back with one last April recap on Monday, so for now read all about the five things making news on this Friday, April 27, 2012.

Reuters Claims Apple Courting EPIX for Forthcoming TV

It’s been fairly quiet in the last couple of months when it comes to rumors of Apple’s mythical HDTV, but Reuters is stirring the mill today with word that Cupertino is negotiating with EPIX to include the streaming service in their hardware -- which apparently includes

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Oracle Versus Google and How it Affects Apple

It has been a long a winding road to get here, but after two years of failed settlement talks and pre-trial motions, Oracle began its infringement and copyright lawsuit against Google this week in a U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Many believed a deal would have been reached long ago, preventing all of this drama. Yet there they were, the two tech giants hauling each other's CEOs up to the stand for public spectacle. Ugly.

What are they fighting about?

Money, basically. In January 2010, Oracle finalized a deal to buy Sun Microsystems, including the Java computer programming language and all of its related technology. Just seven months later, on August 12, 2010, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the Android operating system infringed on patented Java technology. However, Google let it be known that before Oracle bought them, Sun was a huge supporter of Android, and that the Java programming language was open source and free to use.

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Turkcell Deploys Converged Service Fulfillment Suite from Oracle

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The company has delivered several benefits to Turkcell Superonline, such as reducing the time to adapt to network changes from six weeks to less than one week.

Oracle has also reduced offer time to market by up to 75 percent and improved the operations team's visibility to orders throughout the order to cash process and accelerated the resolution of order exceptions.

“ With its new Oracle converged fulfillment platform, Turkcell Superonline can now more quickly deliver new broadband, VoIP and IPTV services while reducing order fallout and enhancing the customer experience,” said Tim Porter, group vice president, EMEA sales, Oracle Communications.

Oracle was in the news earlier this month for extending business analytics portfolio with new Oracle manufacturing analytics and Oracle enterprise asset management analytics applications.

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Google, Oracle to Deliberate in Federal Court after Several Delays

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TMC's Smart Grid and Oracle Present a Webinar

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NORWALK, CT (March 30, 2012) – Smart Grid, the leading website dedicated to the rapidly developing technologies that enable and harness Smart Grids, and Oracle (News

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CCC Information Services Selects Oracle Fusion Middleware

- Alert) Fusion Middleware 11g is an application infrastructure foundation. The solution allows companies to create and run efficient, intelligent business applications and maximize IT efficiency through modern hardware and software architectures. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the only middleware available from any vendor.

Oracle recently announced that CCC Information Services selected Oracle Fusion Middleware to provide improved performance to its installed customer base.

CCC will use an Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Coherence and other Oracle Fusion Middleware products, including Oracle Identity Management, Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle WebCenter to take pressure off its technology environment.

The company will also improve its ability to provide improved solutions to customers by reducing development time, the company stated in a press release.

“CCC’s relationship with Oracle has proven to be very valuable,” said Pervinder Johar, CTO and EVP Global Technology (News - Alert) and Products for CCC Information Services Inc. “The Oracle solution has helped CCC improve our internal development run rate and offer more creative solutions to our clients.”

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is an integrated, best-in-class set of products that help customers quickly design, integrate, deploy and manage efficient and adaptable business applications.

TMC’s (News - Alert) Tanya Palta recently reported Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) adapted Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management, Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway (News

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