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Oracle ordered to pay HP $3 billion in Itanium case A California jury ordered   Oracle   to pay Hewlett-PackardEnterprise $3 billion in damages in a case over HP's Itanium servers, an Oracle spokeswoman said on Thursday. Oracle said it would appeal the verdict. The Itaniuum processor is made by Intel Inc. Oracle decided to stop developing software for use with HP's Itanium-based servers in 2011, saying that Intel made it clear that the chip was nearing the end of its life and was shifting its focus to its x86 microprocessor. But HP said it had an agreement with Oracle that support for Itanium would continue, without which the equipment using the chip would become obsolete. In the first phase of trial in 2012, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that there had been a contract. The jury on Thursday decided damages. "HP is gratified by the jury's verdict, which affirms what HP has always known and the evidence overwhelmingly showed,...

Apple is bringing Siri to Mac & third-party apps, says WSJ Tech giant  Apple  is likely to bring Siri, its computer programme that works as an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator, to the Mac. The company will also give developers access to  Siri  so that they can incorporate it into their apps. The announcement is likely to be made during the week-long Worldwide Developers Conference, which kicks off Monday, the  Verge  quoted the  Wall Street Journal  as saying. Apple introduced Siri as an  iPhone  feature in 2011, creating a way to find information or complete tasks by speaking to the phone instead of typing or tapping. Siri uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services. The software, both in its original version and as an  iOS  feature, adapts to the user's individual language usage and ...