Despite the recent release of a major upgrade to the platform, Java is losing popularity based on the latest monthly assessment of programming languages by Tiobe Software. The October edition of ...

The article provides statistics that show Java's development usage falling from 51.4% in 2002 to 47.9% this fall. So why has Java lost some of its appeal? Blame the web.

So, there was certainly a point during 2007 and 2008 in which Java lost its luster. Things changed when Android applications came on the scene. With Android, native mobile applications could be ...

Pink lotus in Java. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2006 Little more than 10,000 hectares of rainforest remains on Java From 2003-2006, Java lost approximately 2,5000 hectares a year (10,000 hectares of ...