Pretty much every tech writer in the universe over the past couple of days has been weighing on how Google's Chrome OS announcement will affect their little corner of the world, and I am certainly ...

OS X has historically come with Java pre-installed, but even though it is optional in the latest version (OS X Lion), unfortunately once installed on a system there is no official way to uninstall it.

If you've seen it, you hate: the dialog box in OS X that tells you need "legacy" Java installed, but you're not using an app that relies on Java. We have ideas on getting rid of it.

Firefox users can disable Java in the browser via the “Plugins” tab of the Add-ons menu. Mac OS X machines ship with their own versions of Java, which Apple updates from time to time.

Apple has made Java for OS X 10.7 Lion available as a downloadable installation, or like Rosetta as an optional installation whenever you launch an application that requires it.

Users of handheld devices and personal digital assistants (PDA) that run PalmSource Inc.’s Palm OS will have access to a variety of Java-based applications through PalmSource’s partnership ...

The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.

Both updates will upgrade Java SE 6 to 10.6.0_24 for 64-bit capable Intel-based Macs, while Update 9 for Mac OS X 10.5 will also update J2SE 5.0 to 1.5.0_28.