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 ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. released two bundled packages of Java software on Wednesday — one for desktops and one for servers — along with pricing moves intended to bolster its position in the Java ...

Despite a flurry of recent updates to patch security holes in Oracle’s (ORCL) Java software, many experts fear it’s only a matter of time before the bug-prone product again exposes millions of ...

Nearly 75 percent of end users are running a version of Java in their browser that's at least six months out of date, Charles Renert, vice president of research and development for Websense, wrote on ...