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RSS java and in newsAdobe plans a bridge to the clouds
News Sun Microsystems tried for years to get Java to catch on as a cross-platform runtime, but 13 years after its launch, it has yet to catch on with mainstream computing applications. Adobe Systems wants to have it both ways. [17 Nov 2008]
Mass layoffs as Sun cuts 15 per cent of staff
News Chief marketing officer Anil Gadre will run the Application Platform group, which will include the company's Java technology franchise, MySQL open source database product, the GlassFish Application Server,... [14 Nov 2008]
VMware gets into mobile virtualisation game
News Asked whether MVP would offer something different from the abstraction already provided by mobile Java, VMware's European product director Fredrik Sjostedt told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK that MVP would require... [11 Nov 2008]
10 things to do if you're given the chop
News Obvious stuff such as learning Rails if you're used to Java. Tech employees are a little different from the rest of the workforce so here's a list of specific things people in the tech industry might want to consider if... [23 Oct 2008]
Opera mobile gets Symbian support
News Opera Link, a feature for synchronising bookmarks on the server-side among all Opera browsers, has been present in the Opera Mini browser for Java-based phones for more than a year. There's been a lot of activity... [20 Oct 2008]
RIM allows developers to spice up the BlackBerry
News The tools include two new versions of the BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE), as well as desktop simulators for the Storm, Flip and Bold handsets. RIM has announced new developer tools for... [09 Oct 2008]
Google Android: Spreading beyond phones?
News Instead, it runs on a Java layer from Google called Dalvik. Sun Microsystems' Java, already used widely in mobile phones, is a slightly different foundation. John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer at... [23 Sep 2008]
Google Street View goes mobile
News The new features work on BlackBerrys with colour screens and on mobile devices with Java abilities. Street View endows Google Maps with a driver's-eye view of the world, and now people... [18 Sep 2008]
Smart phone sales suffer second-quarter slowdown
News According to analysts Gartner, a slowing economy around the world is to blame, coupled with the development of more sophisticated "enhanced phones" running Java or Qualcomm's Brew rather than true smart phone operating... [09 Sep 2008]
iPhone ad banned over 'all internet' claim
News As the device doesn't offer Flash or Java, not all websites can be seen in their entirety, the complaints said. They said none of the content in the ad was Flash or Java based and the ad... [27 Aug 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News He said: "I also offer programming - HTML, Java, Javascript, etc because I don't get to do that kind of stuff at work but I do have knowledge and skill sets because I've worked in the software... [22 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News The study examined software for developing and serving Java applications, including Geronimo, JBoss, Struts and Tomcat. It found that all or nearly all of the projects examined failed to... [22 Jul 2008]
Dunelm Mill signs Epos maintenance deal
News According to Dunelm Mill head of IT Dave Wilson, the retailer replaced its existing till hardware last year and upgraded to the latest version of Java-based software. Value home furnishings retailer... [16 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google released an FAQ detailing Protocol Buffers, along with source code for the Java, Python, and C++ protocol buffer compilers. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol... [11 Jul 2008]
Game over for Mobile Linux standards forum
News Android is not so much a Linux [platform] but more of a Java-based [platform]. The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to... [27 Jun 2008]
