Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun Microsystems on the basic principles of the software. For ...

In the four years since its introduction, the Java programming language has made tremendous progress, becoming widely accepted as one of the most important computing languages. Web surfers inevitably ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

Will there will be no end to the media hype surrounding cloud computing? Every day a new press release touts the remarkable service provided by some previously unknown PaaS provider, or an article or ...

CTO Prineha Narang and Jim Ricotta, CEO. The technology behind Aliro spun out of Narang's research. Boston-based Aliro Technologies, which is aiming to develop a hardware-agnostic quantum computing ...

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The Java computing language has finally proven to be the money-maker that Sun Microsystems always insisted it would be. Everyone, except perhaps Oracle shareholders, should be ...

A new Java vulnerability has surfaced that apparently affects all Java runtimes and therefore puts close to a billion users at risk. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Java is a nearly-ubiquitous technology that has played an important role in the development of the Internet and cross-platform applications. It has offered a mature, net-savvy development framework ...

Oracle says the new version due in 2012 will make Java EE relevant for cloud computing; the upgrade will also boost REST capabilities Work on the next enterprise edition of Java is proceeding at ...

A San Francisco jury has returned verdicts on three of four key questions over copyright issues in the high-profile courtroom trial between Oracle and Google. Neither company won a decisive victory, ...