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 ...

An introduction to Java-based frameworks for grid and cluster computing What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

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, ...