Specific Rumors on Java OS based Google Phone running on Linux

June 23rd, 2008 While running some Java applications (like Thinreader) you may see this strange looking error - Couldn't find per display information. You may find this error when running such applications in JDK 6 or later.

January 6th, 2007 Programatically using ICMP Ping is a great way to establish that a server is up and running. Previously you couldn't do ICMP ping (what ping command does in Linux/Unix & Windows) in java without using JNI or exec calls.

October 24th, 2008 Would you give a thin client to your Java developers? My friend is trying to have 8+ Java developers working on thin clients running Eclipse. He is using a 8-way big iron with 8 GB RAM.

October 7th, 2009 Report: Dell to make Android phone for AT&TSEATTLE — Dell Inc. is working on a "smart" phone for AT&T that runs Google Inc.'s Android phone operating system, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.

September 8th, 2005 GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

August 26th, 2007 Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.

September 23rd, 2008 You may run Java processes in the foreground or in many cases they may be run using cron jobs or during system startup, as background processes. How can you find out stacktraces of any running Java process? But first how can you even know their name & process id's? How to find process id (pid) of all running Java processes? The following command displays list of all running Java processes in your machine - $JAVA_HOME/bin/jps Note the process id of the process you want to get stacktrace as you will need it in the next step.

August 24th, 2005 Seattle's Melodeo Inc., a two year old startup, will release free Java ME enabled Mobilcast service which will allow you to search and download (and obviously listen) to Podcasts on your cell phone instead of or in addition to your iPod. It will first be released as a Symbian application for Nokia Series 60 phones, then next month for the Java ME based cell phones.

February 16th, 2008 JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. It runs anywhere you have a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile phone, set-top box, possibly even your refrigerator! All this on top of security and stability of Java technology and cross-platform capability.

June 28th, 2006 Microsoft has responded to user concerns about phone home feature in Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program. However rumours are now circulating about an even more ominous intrusion into their privacy.

May 7th, 2008 The burning question at JavaOne 2008 on lots of developers and businesses mind was how Sun was ever going to monetize all the cool technologies at JavaOne? If Sun goes down, so does the technologies it championed. I got the opportunity to ask the questions on the Java panel for media, to JavaFX lead and others.

February 24th, 2008 A simple tip for newbies - how to get Java stack trace, the invaluable tool to debug java programs, in Linux: - Type the Ctrl key followed by \, in short Ctrl \. I just used it to debug a persistent problem where a server process which automatically fetches data from a third-party site was inexplicably hanging.

April 19th, 2006 The Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Release 4 update, issued Monday, fixes a vulnerability in Java Web Start. An application, exploiting the vulnerability, may grant itself permissions to read and write local files that are accessible to the user running the Java Web Start application.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

December 26th, 2006 Install Sun's Java Virtual Machine ( J2SE(TM) Development Kit 5.0 Update 9 ) on Fedora Core / Linux platform in 5 simple steps. The procedure is geared for users having access to Linux box from ssh / telnet only as in a vpn / dedicated web hosting.