Is Android a Java platform? It's certainly Java-esque, in the sense that for the most part you write apps for it in Java code. But it's not blessed by Sun or tested for compatibility -- in fact, it's ...

Java ME was introduced ~2000. The cell phone companies adopted it. The cell phones had limited amounts of CPU and RAM. The US cell phone companies got real development platforms for their cell phones, ...

Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

The connection between Android and the Java platform isn’t exactly in your face all the time, but it isn’t exactly a secret, either. If you’re reading this blog, you almost certainly know, already, ...

Google’s Android software ‘stack’ for mobile devices appears to be underpinned by a more substantially game-changing technology than at first thought in the form of the Google Dalvik virtual machine.

May 23, 1995 saw the fruits of a four-year project at Sun Microsystems called Java. The new language with a C-like syntax promised the ability to write once and run anywhere through the use of virtual ...