Oracle Rejects Google's $3 Million Offer to Settle Patent Dispute - plus my selection of links for the day

Facebook: http://facebook.com

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I've been preparing for a look at most significant links of the day. I've dug up stuff on Google, Zynga and Facebook.

Google: also known as The Big G

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To kick it off, let's see who's been writing about Google? It was searchenginewatch.com with their post entitled Oracle Rejects Google's $3 Million Offer to Settle Patent Dispute.

What did they say about Google? They said:

Ahead ofan upcoming trial in April over claims that Google's Android operating system has infringed on Java patents,Google has offered to pay Oracle $3 million plus a portion of its Android platform revenue in an attempt to reach a settlement without the need for a jury verdict

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"Oracle cannot agree to Google's proposal that Oracle waive its constitutional right to a jury trial," said Oracle lawyers in the filing to U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, seen by the AFP."Although there are issues for the Court to decide, there are substantial questions for the jury as well."

Zynga: Zynga (English pronunciation: /ˈzɪŋɡə/) is a social network game development company located in San Francisco, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, Google+ and MySpace.

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Next up we have a site that's been talking about Zynga - OMGPOP Draws Zynga's Daily User Traffic Up By 25%.

They wrote:

As the dust settles after Zynga's purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape

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A 25% larger and more mobile one.That's the percentage growth of its total daily active user base, when you add in the 14.6 million people playing mobile sketching app Draw Something to its existing 55 million players

IBM: http://IBM.com

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To finish it's IBM Inks Blue Gene Supercomputer Deals With Rice, Rutgers Universities from www.eweek.com, focussing on IBM. Good stuff from them, particularly

IBM Inks Blue Gene Supercomputer Deals With Rice, Rutgers Universities (Page 1 of 3 ) IBM has had a busy week withacademia, announcing partnerships with both Rice University and RutgersUniversity to advance supercomputing at their institutions and in their homestates of Texas and New Jersey, respectively

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On March 30, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Rice University announced apartnership to build the first IBM Blue Gene supercomputer in Texas. Rice alsoannounced a related collaboration agreement with the University of Sao Paulo(USP) in Brazil to initiate the shared administration and use of the BlueGene supercomputer, which allows both institutions to share the benefits ofthe new computing resource