If you're still using Java, then you know that updating it is vital given the large number of vulnerabilities that plague the software. You also know that you've had ...

Java has a lot of good things going for it. Without Java, we wouldn’t have Minecraft or Android. What’s more, Java powers scads of the interactive elements found on the Web. Just how far-reaching is ...

Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...

It has long been known that installing Java meant having to keep an eye out for that pesky adware Ask Toolbar, which would be selected by default and, unless you explicitly made it known you didn't ...

Mac users installing or updating to the latest version Java are finding their shinies infected with the “much loved” Ask Toolbar. This thing returns poor, ad-infested results, and silently changes ...

Attention Java users: Your long national nightmare of avoiding the Ask.com toolbar is over, replaced by the slightly less terrifying prospect of Yahoo defaults. As ...

After getting flak for a security flaw in its Java software, Oracle is getting flak again - this time for rolling out a fix but with a third-party toolbar. Security vendor Sophos said the update to ...

Device independence, programmable garbage collection, an enormous standard library, and easy interoperability with existing native systems. The standard library is as important as the JVM, and its a ...