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In the four years since its introduction, the Java programming language has made tremendous progress, becoming widely accepted as one of the most important computing languages. Web surfers inevitably ...

Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun Microsystems on the basic principles of the software. For ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

CTO Prineha Narang and Jim Ricotta, CEO. The technology behind Aliro spun out of Narang's research. Boston-based Aliro Technologies, which is aiming to develop a hardware-agnostic quantum computing ...

Will there will be no end to the media hype surrounding cloud computing? Every day a new press release touts the remarkable service provided by some previously unknown PaaS provider, or an article or ...

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BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The Java computing language has finally proven to be the money-maker that Sun Microsystems always insisted it would be. Everyone, except perhaps Oracle shareholders, should be ...

A new Java vulnerability has surfaced that apparently affects all Java runtimes and therefore puts close to a billion users at risk. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Oracle says the new version due in 2012 will make Java EE relevant for cloud computing; the upgrade will also boost REST capabilities Work on the next enterprise edition of Java is proceeding at ...