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IBM and Infinity

IBM Research is working on delivering a middleware system that will enable users to tap into the data on mobile devices to create a virtually unlimited pool of data and provide essentially infinite access to the Internet, the company said. Stefan Schoenauer, a researcher at the company’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., said [...]

Java and embedded Linux

It is possible to contemplate, now, the coming exponential proliferation of smart devices using Java and Linux. This trend is fueled by powerful and highly integrated system – on chip processors, coupled with large-capacity systems and storage memories (both disk and silicon), and empowered by wired and wireless communications interfaces (IrDA, Ethernet, Blue Tooth, 802.11). [...]

Java

Java creator James Gosling points out that there are 150 million Java-enabled mobile phones. Although other promising markets exist for the technology, “the one that continues to grow like a weed is cell phones,” he says. Java is the programming language originally designed by Sun Microsystems for use in the distributed environment of the Internet. [...]