The idea of a smart home sounds promising enough -- who doesn't want a house full of automated gadgets, from light switches to appliances to heating systems, that know exactly when to turn on, turn ...

Sun Microsystems launched a new initiative the week of November 17 that it believes will accelerate the adoption of its Java Card technology for smart cards by drawing a broader range of smart-card ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. AxLang is based on Scala, and enables secure and full featured smart ...

Objects are a powerful software engineering construct, and Java uses them extensively. In fact, it encourages the use of objects so much that developers sometimes forget the costs behind the construct ...

Now is the time for chief information officers (CIOs) and other business leaders to begin developing ethical programming protocols for smart machines, according to the Gartner research group. Smart ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a control (signaling) protocol developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to manage interactive multimedia IP sessions including IP telephony, ...

Properties and methods make Java classes interesting. Properties represent the data an object possesses, while methods enable the intelligent manipulation of that data. However, to perform any ...