A Sun Microsystems executive says the company's Java Card technology, which is used to identify millions of mobile phone users, is headed for PCs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Sun Microsystems is giving students and professors a free ride. The company announced last week that it would no longer charge them for nearly 100 software products, including programming tools.

Sun Microsystems officials introduced last week upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company’s latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the elephant in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. said Thursday it plans to change its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol to "JAVA" from "SUNW." The change will go into effect on Aug. 27, the Santa Clara, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sun Microsystems on Wednesday said it's shifting to free and open software by making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 management software and Sun developer tools ...

Sun Microsystems released a test version of developer tools Wednesday to help programmers write Java software that works on small gadgets such as cell phones, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based server ...

Rumor has it that Sun Microsystems and Samsung are jointly developing a “Java Phone” that is cheaper and more feature rich than Apple’s iPhone. Details are scarce, but a Samsung spokesperson confirmed ...

Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES), a set of subscription-based enterprise middleware, with emphasis on making the offering more modular. Java ES 5.0 ...

Oracle Corporation, the large software database company, said Monday it will acquire the server company Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion. It brings together two iconic Silicon ...