Hawks' Ivan Johnson: KG 'a dirty player'

Hawks forward Ivan Johnson might be in his first year in the league, but he's not afraid to speak his mind about one of the league's veteran standouts: Celtics forward Kevin Garnett.

"Garnett, he's a dirty player," Johnson told reporters after Monday's practice. "He gives me a lot of elbows, and I can handle that."

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Microsoft is designing a data center that will be located near a landfill or other source of biogas that will allow it to operate free from the grid.

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Jimmy Kimmel at White House Correspondents Dinner Opens by Greeting President Obama with ?Salaam? ? Complete Video 4/28/12

Here is complete video of comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s complete routine at last night’s 2012 White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington. Kimmel skewered just about everyone. He opened by saying to President Obama, “Salaam.”

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Oracle Gets Pounded in Week 1 of Google Copyright Case

As Phase 1 of Oracle?s case against Google?s use of Java in its Android software draws to a close, Oracle has taken a pounding from Google?s lawyers.

With closing arguments due early next week, the jury is about to rule on testimony from a parade of star witnesses, including Android chief Andy Rubin, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and especially Jonathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, who testified that Sun never charged for Java APIs.

As a reminder, the fundamental issue in this case is whether Google violated the copyright on Oracle?s intellectual property by using Java APIs in the design of Android. The APIs are the crux of Oracle?s case ? as the idea of copyrighting Java as a language is too far-fetched, even by Oracle?s standards. But Java without its APIs is basically useless, the way the English alphabet would be without a writing utensil to create words.

Schwartz Hurts Oracle

Schwartz was CEO of Sun Microsystems before it was acquired by Oracle, and negotiated with Google concerning Java licenses after the search giant acquired Android.

In addition to saying that Sun never charged for Java APIs, Schwartz explained that Sun?s goal for Java when the language was created in the mid-to-late 1990s was to build an open-source universal language that was not reliant on Microsoft or Windows. Giving the APIs away for free was the only way to do that.

From Groklaw?s coverage of the case:

Furthermore, Schwartz said there were several other uses of Java, such as GNU Classpath and Apache Harmony that never required licenses from Sun to create ?forks? of Java. He said that Sun could not do anything about it.

One of Oracle?s primary pieces of evidence is a series of emails from Google programmers and executives wondering if the search company needed to license Java. Schwartz said that negotiations with Google were primarily over licensing the Java name to create a ?Java Linux? phone. In the end, those negotiations became moot when Google adopted the name Android for the branding of the operating system.

Scott McNealy, one of Sun?s co-founders and its longtime CEO, testified about Java?s importance to Sun?s bottom line, noting that Motorola and Nokia licensed Java technologies for mobile devices. Google?s lawyers tried to discredit McNealy by pointing out his close personal relationship with Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison.

Both sides offered testimony to establish technical foundations and provide historical documentation of the relationship between Google and Sun over the use of Java in Android. On that front, Oracle provided emails between Schmidt, Rubin, Schwartz and others that it said showed that Googleexecutives had internal discussions regarding whether they needed to license Java.

In the end, Google decided not to license any Java technologies and built most of Android in a ?clean room? environment with the help of outside contractors. The 37 APIs that Oracle is claiming copyright infringement on were built in that clean-room environment.

Jury Verdict Likely Next Week

The final arguments for Phase 1 are tentatively scheduled for Monday, with the case heading to the jury later in the week. If the jury understands the key issues here (and they should after a week of technical testimony), it seems likely that Oracle will lose most if not all of its copyright case.

But that?s far from the end. After the copyright portion concludes, the trial will then move to Phase 2, which deals with two Oracle ?patents? it claims Google infringed upon.

Top image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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It's Official: Ryan Seacrest Re-Ups NBCUniversal Contract, Adds 'Today,' NBC News Responsibilities

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The two-year deal extends Seacrest?s current on-air presence with E! onto NBC, spanning news, entertainment and sports programming.

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Using Crystal Candleholders For More Than Special Occasions

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'Vampire Diaries' Showrunner to Adapt 'Tiger's Curse' for Paramount (Exclusive)

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Julie Plec has been tapped to write the screenplay based on the young-adult book by Colleen Houck.

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Barely 3 Months Post-Launch, Loyalty App Punchcard Is Live In 15M Locations, Nears Profitability

The mobile apps from stealthy loyalty startup Punchcard have only been on the market since February, but the company is now reporting it's close to being cash-flow positive. Like a digital version of paper punchcards which reward repeat customers for their business, Punchcard's app lets customers snap photos of their receipts in exchange for cash payouts or other rewards directly from the merchant. While not a new concept in and of itself, what's interesting about Punchcard is how it's been acquiring its business: it just switched on loyalty programs for millions of locations across the U.S., even if they didn't ask for it.

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iPhone app dowloads plummeted in March while marketing costs held steady

The number of iPhone app downloads crashed in March, but the cost of marketing those apps held steady according to the latest Fiksu index report.

Mobile app downloads fell by 30 percent, or 2 million downloads, in March and returned …

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Nintendo posts first annual financial loss as casual gaming continues to shift to Apple and iPhone

Nintendo recently posted their full-year financial results, which included their first operating loss amounting to a deficit of $458 million. Over the whole year, Nintendo sold 13.5 million 3DS portable systems worldwide; to put that in perspective, Apple sold about 9 million iPhones in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2012 alone.

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Tips to Get the Best Health Insurance Deals

Many people are reluctant to get health insurance, because it is expensive. However, getting health insurance is one thing that should not be avoided. With several disturbing health news reports nowadays about new and common diseases, people are never safe from viruses and health issues these days.

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Choices For Saving Money On Your Auto Coverage

Some of the major purchases you make can have a direct impact on your car insurance rates. The driver considering a new car purchase might consider checking safety ratings and other information about several models before making a final choice. In this way, you are more likely to get more safety and anti-theft features for less. Remember to always look for these kinds of additional features on your car purchase.

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The Role of Stainless Steel in Solar Energy

Where you live is definitely an influence on how you live your life. If you live in a sunny state filled with sunshine 300+ days out of the year then considering changing your house to solar energy is a reasonable thought. Why waste all that sunlight? Why not use it to help the environment while making your bank account fatter?

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It's 97 Degrees Outside - Now What?

Cooling down your house in the dog days of Summer. Ideas for coping with the heat.

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Wall Decals Are the Answer to All Your Decorating Woes

Although it can sometimes seem impossible to achieve the perfect balance when you are decorating your home, vinyl wall art can help you with your interior design efforts. Wall decals allow everybody, no matter what their skill level, the opportunity to live in a great looking home.

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Home Energy Audit With a Hole in the Wall

Why does this home have a heating register in the middle of a wall? At first it seems really out of place, will a closer look point the way to energy saving possibilities? Please join me for this home energy audit.

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4 Ways to Avoid HIPAA Rule Violations at Your Workplace

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was brought into effect in 1996, and its usefulness in preventing loss of insurance cover due to a range of circumstances was evident. However the health care and insurance scenario experienced a major change when the HIPAA Privacy Rules were enacted a few years later. These rules were specially introduced to safeguard the patients' protected health information also referred to as the PHI, and any violation in the matter was to invite criminal and civil penalties.

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What Is Solar Heat and Are Evacuated Tubes The Most Efficient Method of Getting Heat From the Sun?

Solar heat from the amazing G2V class star we call the Sun is the only thing which keeps Planet Earth from being a frozen wasteland. Since time immemorial, humans have striven to capture that heat for their own comfort and purposes. With the advent of modern technology, it's most likely that evacuated tubes are the most efficient way to capture that great heat from the Sun.

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The rise of the unconference

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Which tech conference would you rather go to ? one where the vendor maintains rigid control over the agenda and speakers (with no input from you) and you shut up and listen while they do all the talking, or one …

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Report: Amazon pulling ahead of iTunes in average revenue per user

TinyCo's report on how well its game Tiny Village is doing across multiple mobile platforms reveals that fragmentation might be to blame in the loss of revenue from Google Play releases.

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Read/Write Daily: Human Evolution

Today's theme is human evolution. Nature is still the ultimate guide, but humankind is uniquely capable of putting technological pressure on our own evolution.

How's that going for us?

Boston Dynamics is ready to announce a Cyborg Age. Check out its superhuman robot, PETMAN.

Multimedia artist Timo Arnall has made a video of what the world looks like to a robot.

The Marine Corps wants Terminator vision for its grunts on the ground.

D.B. Grady has a great éxpose on the Special Collection Service, the super-high-tech U.S. spy agency that doesn't officially exist.

Are our minds ready for all this technological enhancement? Alan Watts doubted we can handle it.

But as the Washington Post points out, humans have evolved a psychological advantage that few other species have: middle age.

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