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Embedded systems

The world of intelligent devices is changing dramatically. The computerized devices around us are getting smarter; they are increasingly connected, interdependent, and they’re becoming vastly more numerous. All this is happening at an ever-increasing rate. It is now practical to embed moderately high performance computing and connectivity that runs on electricity, whether tethered or mobile. [...]

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. [...]