Oracle's acquisition of Sun delayed

The US Department of Justice has dealt a blow to Sun Microsystems customers by extending its 30-day review of Oracle's proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of the company, says Computing.co.uk.

The department stated it needs more time to explore how the purchase will affect Java rights licensing.

However, Oracle said in a statement that it is not concerned with the US government's need for more information, declaring the "narrow issue", about the way rights to Java are licensed, "is never going to get in the way of the deal".

Comcast just became the wireless Internet vendor to beat by offering 4G wireless Internet in Portland, Oregon, reports PC World.

Leveraging Clearwire's WiMax network, this move leaves the competing technology, LTE (Long-Term Evolution), a step behind.

The new service, Comcast High-Speed 2go, offers speeds of up to 4Mbps.

Google's move to let software run natively on Android devices opens the door for a version of Firefox that can run on the operating system, states cnet.

At present, Android applications are written in Java and run on Google's Dalvik Java virtual machine.

Google's Android Native Development Kit version 1.0 lets software run natively on the Linux layer below, although the company sees it as a way not to run full-fledged applications as much as to run components of ordinary Android applications.

Billed as a rival to YouTube, The Pirate Bay's video streaming service will offer unrestricted video content, in violation of copyright law, reports BBC.

It is not clear when the service will actually go live; the site's founders said "it will be done when it's done".

In April, a court in Sweden jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay and ordered them to pay $4.5 million in damages.

Seven online merchants, operating more than 40 Web sites, have agreed to pay a $765 000 settlement following an investigation by the New York State attorney general's office, says cnet.

"These companies engaged in the worst kinds of consumer fraud, from classic bait-and-switch schemes to blatant lies and bullying sales tactics," New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo said in a news release.

"Let this be a message to online merchants everywhere: such abuse of consumers and violation of the law will not be tolerated."