Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this ...

The Java wars have spilled into the consumer market. Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are teaming to compete against Sun Microsystems in the nascent market for technology that networks consumer ...

The discovery of a serious software bug has simultaneously opened a variety of desktop computers to potential attack. The flaw has been found in Java, which works on a variety of computer operating ...

Cross-platform software is the norm today. In many cases, developers don't have to consider what operating system their apps will be deployed on, because apps tend to be more or less platform-agnostic ...

Java 8 is out the gate. It’s big step forward for embedded applications, and a few of its many new features stand out. First is the simplification and unification of the different versions of Java.