A closely watched feud over Java standards moves closer to resolution, but questions over the value of that standard still linger. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

A closely watched feud over Java standards compliance moved closer to resolution this week, but questions over the value of that standard still linger. Open-source Java software distributor JBoss ...

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Oracle and Swiss mobile software platform vendor Myriad Group are locked in a legal battle over Java licensing issues, one with an apparent connection to Google. Myriad filed suit against Oracle on ...

As the decade-long fight over Google's use of Java APIs in building the Android mobile OS moves to the Supreme Court, Oracle's government affairs leader accuses Google's top lawyer of coercing support ...

Speaking in October this year on the readiness of U.S. armed forces, then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper referenced Task Force Smith—a unit decimated in the early days of the Korean War as a result ...

In the history of computing, 1995 was a crazy time. First Java appeared, then close on its heels came JavaScript. The names made them seem like conjoined twins newly detached, but they couldn’t be ...

Behind such programs and more is the very technology at the center of an intense battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over control of desktop computers. Though Sun has mostly lost that fight, ...