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Sony Ericsson today announced plans to extend its mobile Java™ Platform into its entry 3G mobile phone portfolio. This means that games, applications and content developed on the Sony Ericsson Java™ platform will provide a compelling business opportunity for developers who can now extend content creation for consumers in the entry 3G segment, widely recognised as a future growth area of the market.

Google and Partners Welcome More than 3,000 Developers to Annual Developer Conference; New Products and Initiatives Make it Easier to Build for a More Powerful Web

Exceptional Call Clarity and Easy Access to Data Applications Help Improve Communications and Increase Productivity

Samsung today announced that its mobile developer program, Samsung Mobile Innovator, will extend support to the Java and Windows Mobile platforms in February 2009. The launch of the two new programs follow the launch of Samsung Mobile Innovator on Symbian S60 in October 2008, and are part of Samsung’s ongoing commitment to open platforms.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of the JavaFX Preview release at: http://www.javafx.com. The JavaFX Preview release provides web scripters, designers and Java developers with a preview of the runtime and tools needed to create amazing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on the Java platform.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies (AMEX:ONT) to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX(TM), a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across all the "screens of your life".

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released SPECjvm2008, a new Java virtual machine benchmark with multithreaded workloads that represent a broad range of application areas.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and the GlassFish(TM) community today announced the immediate availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish(TM) Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications(TM) Server.

More than 1.2 Billion Java technology-based Smart Cards Deployed in 2007 Alone; Secure, Programmable Cards Touch All Facets of Life, From ATM and Credit Cards to Government and Personal Identity Cards.

"CodeSleuth" Offers Java Software Developers Additional Insight for Increased Application Performance

IBM announced that WebSphere Application Server shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.

Oracle today announced that Oracle Technology Network (OTN), the leading online resource for Oracle software developers, grew by more than one million members in the past 12 months and continues to be one of the largest developer communities in the world.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today made available a new specification describing "Light-Weight Profiling" (LWP), a technology designed to increase the performance of software applications by providing a mechanism that allows software to more effectively leverage the benefits of multi-core processing. The LWP specification describes the first technology that supports a recently introduced initiative called "Hardware Extensions for Software Parallelism," which will encompass a broad set of innovations designed to improve software parallelism, and thus application performance, through new hardware features in future versions of AMD processors.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of its annual coordinated project release, this year code named Europa.

BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced WebLogic Real Time ™ 2.0, the latest release of the company's Java real-time technology and the industry's only real-time solution with guaranteed microsecond pause times for standard Java applications with no special coding required.

HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading developer of cross-platform networking, PDF, and image server solutions for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and web clients, released today, under basic agreement with Terra Soft Solutions, a free download of its modified Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) distribution optimized to use Sony's PLAYSTATION 3 as a test-drive server.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. JAVAONE CONFERENCE, May 8, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc., ( NASDAQ: SUNW ) today previewed JavaFX Script, a radically simple scripting language for creating rich content and applications to run on billions of Java-powered devices from mobile phones to Blu-ray Disc players to the browser. The first of a series of content authoring products from Sun, JavaFX Script enables content rich, highly interactive sites to be built by creative professionals including designers, authors and developers.

Zoho Meeting, a web conferencing application by Zoho has been launched.

Microsoft announced the final release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 yesterday. This package helps Web developers with the essential tools to simplify building next-generation, AJAX-style Web applications through what it calls "seamless integration with the .NET Framework and Microsoft platform."