LONDON — Java applications developer esmertec (Zurich, Switzerland) has raised 23 million euros (about $20 million) in third round financing to expand its Java Virtual Machine offerings in the mobile ...

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San Francisco — Java giants Motorola, Nokia and Sun Microsystems are plowing separate paths for the future of cell phone software. The widening divergence in their commercial Java products–and ...

Sun's telecom partners in Asia are planning deeper use of Java software in mobile phones. The phones' appeal may still be narrow, though, because of a limited number of applications. Stephen Shankland ...

Before the Java language was known as Java, it was called Oak—a language for building embedded applications on smart consumer electronics. However, the idea of networked smart devices everywhere was ...

One of the many ways that JavaFX was supposed to change the world of Java forever: it was supposed to supply a unifying method for creating slick mobile UIs with Java. That's been one of the ...

Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

If real-world demonstrations are any indication, multifunction 3G (third-generation) wireless devices may not be such a pipe dream after all. Although Sun Microsystems Inc. has used the JavaOne show ...

According to James Gosling, often called the father of Java, the Java Micro Edition (ME) will gradually supplanted by the Java Standard Edition (SE). He said, "We’re trying to converge everything to ...

Java on mobile platforms is not living up to the promise of letting programmers "write once, run anywhere", according to developers gathered in London last week. The Java programming language was ...