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 ...

In what some believe is the most ambitious effort yet to use Java in cell phones, the handset maker announces plans to sell 100 million phones using the software language by the end of 2003.

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is working to turn its Java software for cell phones and other gadgets into a tool to leapfrog Microsoft in Web services, a movement to remake the Internet that ...

Two major mobile phone manufacturers, Siemens and Ericsson, have agreed to sell software developed by 4thpass that lets customers send Java programs wirelessly to next-generation cell phones ...

Skype announced on Thursday the availability of a new Skype Mobile beta that is compatible with Android-powered phones and over 100 Java-enabled phones from LG, … ...

LG hits the mark again with the world’s first Java-based smartphone. Leaving Microsoft Windows and Symbian to rot, the Korean company believes using Java for all the phone’s functions (including the ...

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 ...

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 ...

LogoVision Wireless, a developer of mobile streaming technologies, has expanded its video streaming applications for Java phones. It will now support phones such as Nokia, Sony Ericcson, Windows ...

“Sun was forced to abandon its project for a Java based smartphone software stack in the wake of Android’s launch, realizing that there was no way to compete with a free product,” Google wrote.

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 ...