Amazon.com sue Barnes and Noble and the latest version of Java is released. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1999 – Amazon sues Barnes and Noble
Amazon.com announces that they have filed a suit against BarnesandNoble.com alleging that they have infringed on a patent for “1-Click” express checkout technology. One-click buying, refers to the technique of allowing customers to make online purchases with a single click, with the payment information needed to complete the purchase already entered by the user previously.
2003 – A New Version of Java
On this day in 2003, the latest version of the Java programming language (Version 2) is released.
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