Sun's telecom partners in Asia are planning deeper use of Java software in mobile phones. The phones' appeal may still be narrow, though, because of a limited number of applications. Stephen Shankland ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems said new software technology makes Java run at least five times faster on gadgets such as cell phones, a move that could help make Java more useful and therefore thwart ...

The company, along with Java backers, is preparing a new release of its software for cell phones that it hopes will prevent a splintering of the market and stave off rivals such as Microsoft. Stephen ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Top cell phone makers are converging on a more common implementation of Java in handsets. An emerging standard software profile, powered by first-ever hardware acceleration using ARM ...

In what some believe is the most ambitious effort yet to use Java in cell phones, handset maker Nokia on Tuesday announced plans to sell 100 million phones using the software language by the end of ...

Motorola Inc. Tuesday announced partnerships designed to prime the pump for Java applications on mobile phones. The mobile telecommunications infrastructure maker has teamed up with mobile software ...

Java-enabled mobile phones present a great opportunity for Java application developers, Motorola officials stressed at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Thursday evening. There are hundreds ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Unique implementations and extensions of Java for emerging voice and data cellular devices are threatening what many see as the best hope for unifying this nascent market. Indeed, ...

There is still a little time left, but it doesn’t look like Apple iPhone users will see Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems get Flash and Java up and running on Apple’s handheld device by Christmas.

Most new phones have the capability to run java programs, the advertisers are saying java games but that's just a lack of imagination. <BR>When you couple it with GPRS it should be possible to create ...

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, Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications are taking steps to make it a little easier — and cheaper — for software developers to bring Java programs to mobile ...