The appointment of a third party to audit the process is intended to tackle criticisms that Sun is too 'protectionist'. Sun Microsystems is to change the Java standards process to include an external audit by an accounting firm.
Industry association Bitkom has proposed an insurance model that would see digital business models insured against risks such as personal damages, the theft of intellectual property, client claims made against interruptions in service and the...
BEA and Sun back a method using Java's Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing GUI (graphical user interface) components for building application user interfaces. However, a key reason to present a unified IDE is to give Java developers a more...
A US insurance firm has announced a policy to cover the Segway Human Transporter - more notoriously referred to as 'Ginger' or 'It'. However, the forward-thinking financiers haven't impressed Segway's creators who insist the device is so safe and...
Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code. Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane, that information collected by Dr Watson, the company...
Yahoo is planning an upgrade to its instant messaging software that will block access via third-party IM applications such as Trillian. However, she did say that the upgrade would likely disable access for all Yahoo Messenger users who access the...