Today at the JavaOne conference, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam announced that the company is making a strategic shift and will begin to deploy Java Platform Micro Edition-based services in its ...

Oracle has announced the general availability (GA) of the Java Platform Micro Edition 8 (Java ME 8), the latest version of embedded Java aimed at devices, such as smart phones, and the evolving ...

Sun officially announced yesterday plans to release the source code of its Java Micro Edition (J2ME) implementation before the end of the year. Designed for deployment on embedded devices like PDAs ...

A number of companies from the mobile industry, including Access, France Telecom/Orange, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Sun Microsystems and Vodafone, have all agreed on some programs to make ...

Implementing microservices in Java has become a top priority at Oracle, which is rebooting Java Enterprise Edition for microservices and cloud deployments. Meanwhile, another microservices effort for ...

Describing it as the most significant upgrade to the Java programming model ever, Oracle announced Java Platform, Standard Edition 8, as well as Java Platform, Micro Edition 8, and additional releases ...

It’s no surprise that Sun is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license. In all the open sourcing of its software to date ...

After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. On Monday, it plans to put the code for the programming software under the ...

Emphasizing the growing importance of mobile device applications, Sun Microsystems is readying two technologies to better enable the mobile trend: Java On Device Portal (ODP), for widget applications, ...

The company is planning aggressive moves for the critical software platform in the next few years. Here's a rundown. Java, first launched at Sun Microsystems in 1995, remains a critical part of the ...