Java's origins trace back to the early 1990s, when a team at Sun Microsystems led by James Gosling set out to develop a ...

Software developers mainly use the Java programming language to write a single set of computer programs (or source code) that can run on all these different platforms. Java is used for building ...

Mobile phone giants Vodafone and Nokia teamed up on Thursday to simplify software for cell phones written with the Java computer language that promises to bring cheaper, smarter handsets.