Sun will build a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), based on the Java Micro Edition version of the programming language after June of this year. It will be available in the iPhone AppStore. Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, told InfoWorld Friday that although Apple passed on enabling Java on the iPhone, Sun [...]

(Credit: Hyperdesk)

For this reason, on Wednesday, July 30, The Skins Factory launched Hyperdesk, a software package that will spice up your Windows XP, and turn it into a world of exciting themes, skins, and wallpapers. The software even allows you to create widgets for other applications, such as iTunes or Windows Media Player.

Hyperdesk uses [...]

The way the model’s built is that they’re trying to inform what’s essentially a preconstructed model. We’re looking at the complete URL. How often that URL-level information is utilized in the context of building a model, I don’t know.

Missing were details about how Charter’s system works, which we’ve tried to remedy with the following conversation [...]

Those of you hunting for the latest technology in Dell’s 17-inch gaming laptop will be pleased to learn the M1730 has received its Penryn update. Since Intel announced its new 45-nanometer chips last month at CES, they’ve been ever so slowly making their way into systems. Dell is replacing the T7700 and the T7800 Merom [...]

Robbie Bach, president of Entertainment & Devices Division.

“We don’t make phones ourselves. We don’t have any plans to make phones ourselves,” the told the paper. “Our focus is on the belief that a phone is a very personal thing. Different people want different types of phones. We think that is going to continue, and we [...]

MyCaption, a member of the BlackBerry Alliance, introduced on Tuesday a new way BlackBerry users can work with e-mails on their smartphones: by speaking.
Talk your thoughts into e-mails.
This seems like a very useful tool that will free your thumbs from the little keyboard. More importantly, now you can potentially talk to a business partner [...]

In fact, if there’s one thing that frustrates me most with this blog it’s that there isn’t much solid open-source business commentary on the web. It means I link to my past posts much more often than I’d like. You might think that this would be a winning strategy; that linking to myself would be [...]

Panasonic steeped the G10 in extra features compared with its less expensive brethren, adding a THX mode that’s largely responsible for its excellent picture, along with VieraCast for access to a limited range of Internet extras. The downside, as always, is that it costs significantly more than lower-end models, but if you’re looking for [...]

The buzz around Washington is that the Justice Department will rule on whether to approve the Google-Yahoo advertising pact by late next week.
Of course, the government being the government, maybe it’ll do something supremely annoying and keep us in the dark beyond next Friday. But the calendar suggests that a decision is [...]

Privately held LeftHand will fill out HP’s virtualization offerings as the tech giant targets midsize companies and corporate branch offices trying to keep costs under control as their data storage needs expand.
Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that it intends to buy storage specialist LeftHand Networks for $360 million.
The all-cash deal is expected to close in the [...]