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 ...

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J.

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At 21 years old, Java is the most popular programming language on Earth. This year’s JavaOne keynote highlighted the way scientists are using “write once, run anywhere” Java code today. Multiple ...

With the increasingly complexity of concurrent applications, many developers find that Java’s low-level threading capabilities are insufficient to their programming needs. In that case, it might be ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

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Open-source language Python is already one of the most popular programming languages among developers. It ranks in third place behind mainstays Java and C, according to programming language index ...