The discovery of a serious software bug has simultaneously opened a variety of desktop computers to potential attack. The flaw has been found in Java, which works on a variety of computer operating ...

When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft, IBM and Apple aren’t the only mega-companies with all the knowledge. Sun, with its Solaris OS, has years of expertise with Unix-based operating systems.

The ongoing legal saga known as the Oracle-Google copyright battle took a huge leap Wednesday when Oracle claimed the last six Android operating systems are “infringing Oracle’s copyrights in the Java ...

Oracle's nearly eight-year legal battle with Google just won't end. Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that Google violated Oracle's copyrights when it built a custom version of the Java platform ...

The Java wars have spilled into the consumer market. Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are teaming to compete against Sun Microsystems in the nascent market for technology that networks consumer ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

Experience has shown that the portability, speed of development and built-in run-time support (the C Standard Library) of C far outweigh the relatively small cost of using it. As it turns out, much ...