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 ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

The common wisdom concerning most Java applications is that they are far too mission-critical in nature to effectively run in the cloud, given overall performance concerns. But an annual survey of ...

Apple supports old version Because the transition to Java 1.4.1 represents an architectural change to the underlying Java implementation on Mac OS X, some technologies built on Java 1.3.1 will not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about how small businesses with no use for Java may want to consider disabling it. At the time I made that recommendation, new unpatched vulnerabilities threatened the ...

The other day we wrote an article about Java incompatibilities causing problems with Apple's Mail program, and linked to an Apple knowledgebase article that claimed the simple way to reinstall Java is ...