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Java apps are not new to anyone in the world. It became famous worldwide due to the invention of the internet. It has revolutionized people's communication, and Java apps have brought the world more ...

Oracle has released a mobile client and associated framework, nearly two years in the making, to help developers quickly build Java applications for industrial mobile devices. The Oracle Application ...

The battle for mobile platform dominance is a hard-fought, sometimes bitter battle between the Big Three software companies – Apple, Google, and Microsoft. We all know that while sales of desktop ...

StackSocial often has great deals on software and course bundles, and right now it's offering a mobile application developers' bundle for just $30. The bundle brings students through seven courses ...

Codename One, an Israel-based startup founded by two former Sun Microsystems engineers, said this week that its new mobile, cross-platform software development kit (SDK) is now compatible with Windows ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

What began as an experiment in consumer electronics in the early 1990s celebrates its 20th anniversary as a staple of enterprise computing this week. Java has become a dominant platform, able to run ...

According to the TIOBE Index, Objective-C is now more popular than C++, showing proof that mobile development is surging ahead as we enter the post-PC era. Objective-C is the object-oriented ...

If you go back to the history of the mobile applications, then you can clearly figure out that a few Java games, a calculator or monthly calendar were all that came under the category of mobile apps.