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Cell phone software: Too much too soon?
News The spectre of phones becoming overloaded and crashing has loomed particularly large after some handsets using Java technology did just that in Japan last year, resulting in a recall. A repair is planned, but the embarrassing episode has raised...
[April 24, 2001, 12:49]
Microsoft and interoperability: oxymoron or secret soul mate?
Blog the .NET developer to connect with Java or CORBA without the need for custom adapters or new code generation. By wrapping back-office legacy systems behind standards-based Web Services Description Language (WSDL) interfaces, Artix Connect for WCF...
[April 10, 2008, 10:25]
BBC opens up its code
News Languages used include C++, Perl, Python and Java. The corporation's interest in open source is partly altruistic, partly practical — some of the work is trying to promote new standards, which the BBC needs to be widely adopted to meet its public...
[July 13, 2005, 17:35]
IBM unveils developer site
News Code available in the Open Source Zone will include the likes of Jikes Java Compiler, IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU), and Open Visualisation Data Explorer. Computing giant IBM continues to expand its line of online services with a new resource...
[September 29, 1999, 14:29]
Apple sets up Rendezvous with Windows, Linux
News Apple Computer has published updated source code to its Rendezvous network-configuration technology for use in Windows, Linux, Unix and Java applications. By supporting an open standards process and providing open-source software that is available...
[July 1, 2004, 13:10]
Sun rises on open DRM
News Dream's components include software for letting different DRM systems interoperate based on credentials held by individuals, not by particular devices; server software for delivering streaming video; and Java software for managing video streams.
[August 22, 2005, 9:10]
Oracle ships grid software
News The application server costs $5,000 (£2,865) per processor for the Java Edition, $10,000 per processor for the Standard Edition, and $20,000 per processor for the Enterprise Edition. The software supports a wider range of standards, including the...
[December 10, 2003, 14:25]
British VR firm releases 3D browser
News Key features of Viscape Universal: intuitive navigation system requiring no user set-up for ease of use advanced graphics renderer that runs on all systems using Microsoft DirectX enhances VRML content using Microsoft Directshow supports fully...
[October 5, 1998, 14:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News This time I leave everything well alone, until a Java error pops up complaining about some incomprehensible missing class. The venerable nabob of bitstreams, Grand Vizier of the V.standards, Master of Matters Modemical and occasional morris dancer...
[August 30, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This time I leave everything well alone, until a Java error pops up complaining about some incomprehensible missing class. The venerable nabob of bitstreams, Grand Vizier of the V.standards, Master of Matters Modemical and occasional morris dancer...
[August 30, 1997, 9:00]
JBoss-Microsoft partnership announced
News Microsoft and JBoss said on Tuesday they'll work to make JBoss' Java application server software work well with Microsoft's Windows and higher-level software. JBoss is experiencing tremendous growth and is a driving force of consolidation of the...
[September 27, 2005, 17:10]
A Year Ago: British VR firm releases 3D browser
News Key features of Viscape Universal: intuitive navigation system requiring no user set-up for ease of use advanced graphics renderer that runs on all systems using Microsoft DirectX enhances VRML content using Microsoft Directshow supports fully...
[October 4, 1999, 7:00]
Oracle talks up Linux prospects
News During the past 12 months, Phillips said, he has seen an increase in the number of customers using Linux machines to run databases and Java application servers, rather than slowly testing the waters with application servers running on Linux and...
[August 10, 2005, 15:10]
3D Web standards move closer
News Since X3D's first release in March, Yumetech launched Xj3D, a Java-based open-source version of it. The consortium formed a Java Rendering Working Group to write APIs (application programming interfaces) that will allow Java programs to communicate...
[July 24, 2002, 11:25]
Open source application server gets Twisted
News It's taken some of the best minds behind Zope 1 and 2 plus a decade of learning from what is worst in the Java app server market," he said. The Zope 2.x application server is powerful, widely used but considered to be hard to learn because it's...
[January 10, 2006, 16:15]
Apple's knuckles rapped again over latest iPhone ad
News In August, the ASA banned another advert for the iPhone that promised users access to "all parts of the internet" on their Apple device, despite the phone's inability to display Flash or Java web content.
[November 26, 2008, 15:59]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News The CDDL governs OpenSolaris and the Glassfish Java server software project. The server and software company is retiring its Sun Industry Standards Source Licence (SISSL), said Simon Phipps, director of Sun's Open Source Office.
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
DoJ attorneys: Microsoft is still guilty
News The DoJ attacked Microsoft's assertion that the market for Intel-based PC operating systems was too narrow because threats such as Apple Computer's operating system and Java exist outside it. In their last scheduled filing in the long-running...
[January 26, 2000, 10:05]
Pocket PC handhelds get a trip to the Opera
News However, as it stands there is no specific Java support in Opera for Pocket PC. Supported standards include CSS 2 and JavaScript. Opera has released a beta of its browser running on Microsoft's Windows Mobile Pocket PC platform.
[January 18, 2006, 16:35]
W3C marks 'milestone' in DOM protocol
News It's not just in the DOM, it's in the XML parsers, and in the different programming languages like Perl and Java. The Web's leading standards body revised a key recommendation for manipulating elements of a Web page.
[April 8, 2004, 9:05]
