Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

The Java programming language may be turning 20 years old, but it manages to stay young by taking on the day’s biggest computing challenges—including the Internet of Things. And by staying young, Java ...

The big news today was that Java is going to be released for free under the GPL license. This comes hot off the heals of Adobe's decision to open source their ActionScript Virtual Machine (my thoughts ...

At the recent MakerCon festival in San Francisco, inventors, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs displayed the latest connected devices that might be showing up soon in a store near you. The maker movement ...

Some Internet appliance and embedded device developers have concluded that current implementations of the Java specifications are either functionally incomplete for their use, too slow, too unreliable ...

Microsoft today announced an important Internet Explorer update that will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. It will be released along with the next Windows update and other security updates coming ...

At the official Internet Explorer Team Blog, Microsoft announced that it will soon be releasing an update to the Internet Explorer that will block old Java versions for security purposes. The old Java ...

With an upgrade to the embedded version of Java announced Tuesday, Oracle wants to extend the platform to a new generation of connected devices, aka the Internet of things. Oracle also hopes that Java ...

Looking to enable Java applications to have finer control over internet addressing, plans are afoot in the OpenJDK community to develop a service provider interface ...

This month's Patch Tuesday update for Internet Explorer will include a new feature: it will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. More specifically, it will block out-of-date versions of the Java plugin ...

My gentoo laptop is having an impossible time doing anything port 80 based. And some others as well but I'm not sure about those yet. The best that I can think of what happened was when i tried to ...