Sun Java
287 Stories
Java flaw could lead to Windows, Linux attacks
News Threat affects various operating systems and major browsers such as IE and Firefox, leading experts to rate it "critical."
Tags: Security, Web browsers
Multitasking coming to phones
News Are cell phones smart enough for new generations of wireless downloads? Most can't even multitask--but that may be changing before too long.
Giants team for wireless Web via Java
News Microsoft is left out as Sun, BEA, IBM and others join hands to link cell phones and servers through Java.
NetBeans update ships with Sun aboard
News Sun Microsystems to support users of NetBeans IDE 5, the open-source tool which sports a new GUI-building program.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Software engineering/development, Java, Open source
Sun adds mobile synchronization software
News Licensing deal with Synchronica will allow mobile device synchronization in Sun's communications and application platform suites.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Mobile platforms/communications
Sun to buy integration outfit SeeBeyond
News Sun Microsystems plans to bolster its software lineup with the acquisition of integration specialist SeeBeyond for US$387 million in cash.
Tags: Java, Acquisitions
S'pore firm dials into Sun's Java card
News A local technology firm has licensed Sun Microsystems' Java Card technology to make chips for third-generation (3G) mobile phones.
Tags: Cellular phones
Qualcomm adds to partner brew
News Qualcomm's entry into the wireless software wars won another 18 developer converts last week, including one of Korea's largest telephone service providers and four more device makers.
Rational tool doesn't play favorites
News Rational Software on Tuesday introduced a new software development tool that is compatible with software from Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
Sun to open up Java
News Sun has backed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open source flavor by making a similar promise for its Java technology.
Tags: Java, Open source
BEA plans chip-based Java speed boost
News The company is expected to announce plans to speed up its version of Java for servers by letting the software run directly on processors.
Tags: Servers, Java, App servers
Sun: We screwed up on open source
News Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, says the company alienated open source developers from 2001 to 2002 but is now healing the rift.
Tags: Open source, Officer, Open-source Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software, Project GlassFish, sourcing, Java, application server
Kodak sues Sun over aspects of Java
News Eastman Kodak files a patent-infringement lawsuit against the computer maker that focuses on technologies found in Sun's Java programming language.
Qualcomm buys U.K.'s Elata for US$57m
News Mobile content delivery provider, which counts Orange France and Optimus among its customers, will now be part of Qualcomm's internet services division.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Web services
Qualcomm warms to Sun's Java
News The chipmaker says it has licensed download software from Sun Microsystems, in a deal that puts rival technologies--incompatible until now--into the same cell phone.
