Sun announces that Java, a technology originally conceived for consumer electronics devices, will be built into Blu-ray Disc players. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Oracle continues to see its traditional software revenues decline while it races to move its customers to the cloud. But it may have a plan to shore up those shrinking revenues. According to industry ...

Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...

Sun Microsystems is moving more of its software into the open-source realm. But the company will stop short of handing over the keys to Java itself--at least for now. However, the event didn't see ...