Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated ...

At the turn of the century, enthusiasm for Java was waning. Embedded Java in browsers died as soon as JavaScripting technologies proved themselves as simpler and more secure alternatives, and on the ...

Android could also now flesh out its "multimedia" section, now called "Media Player," which now read "the Product will support a Media Player capable of managing, importing and playing back content ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun. Google's lawyer, ...

[This article is part of a continuing series on Android, Google's new mobile phone platform. It is excerpted from an upcoming book. --Ed] Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux ...