Supreme Court: Google's Reuse of Oracle's Java Computer Code Is Fair Use Software developers are breathing a sigh of relief. If the court had sided with Oracle, then the ruling may have opened the ...

Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet. The announcement ...

In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty, the technology expert in the time-traveling starship's crew, is invited to use an Apple Macintosh, the most usable computer of the 1980s.

How many times have you said to yourself, “I must clear out that shed/loft/garage”? We’ve all said it and our intentions are always good, but the clutter seems to build up, as does the sense of dread ...

Released in 1995, the philosophy behind Java is "write once, run anywhere." In other words, a program written in Java can theoretically run on any machine that supports it. While the implementation ...

The Java APIs, according to Google, are purely functional because the APIs tell Android how to interact with Java code. Google argued that, if APIs were copyrightable, developers would be forced to ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Reports of Java’s death have been greatly exaggerated — said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is ...

The Java-based EnergJ language could reduce energy consumption of computers by up to 50%. Manufacturers increasingly make tradeoffs in the name of energy use when designing products. Soon the same ...