SAN FRANCISCO--Java inventor James Gosling on Wednesday will unveil a new license intended to spark vigorous research into new directions for the programming technology. Sun's new Java Research ...

After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. On Monday, it plans to put the code for the programming software under the ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

A Google engineer who wrote an e-mail that is now one of the key pieces of evidence in Oracle's patent and copyright infringement lawsuit against Google testified yesterday that he did not mean to ...

Sun Microsystems wanted $30 million to $50 million from Google for a Java license, but Google decided to build its own implementation for Android after negotiations broke down, Google Executive ...