Google's Android software gives Sun Microsystems' Java technology a starring role--but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s.

The software developer kit will let programmers create Java software for real or emulated Android mobile phones. Plus: a $10 million contest for coders.

Internet telephony champion Skype on Thursday announced support for Android handset, Java-powered phones and Intel Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Skype lite, a thin client version of the software ...

A group of leaders at the New York Software Industry Association had all sorts of cheery things to say about mobile development in general and Java mobile development in particular . RIM in ...

Android's Achilles heel, aside from the "toxic hellstew" of security patches and fragmentation -- which is outside the scope of this article and my Survival Test series -- is Java.

From that perspective, Android should not be regarded as “a market substitute for Java’s software,” but rather as a “mobile operating stack [that is] a very different type of product.” Suggesting that ...

Android in 2006. Version 0.91 of the Google's project definition for Android, completed July 6, 2006, was not an open document. It is labeled "Google Proprietary" and "Highly Confidential." ...