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There is still a little time left, but it doesn’t look like Apple iPhone users will see Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems get Flash and Java up and running on Apple’s handheld device by Christmas.

Our operatives at this week's WWDC have confirmed with Apple representatives that initial software included with the iPhone will not offer the ability to play back Flash content embedded in Web pages; ...

After receiving access to the iPhone and iPod touch through Apple's SDK, Sun Microsystems says it will release a version of Java for the two Apple devices. The decision was made just a day after Apple ...

Sun continues to pursue talks with Apple Computer to have Java applications run on Apple’s iPhone while acknowledging a third party’s efforts toward the same goal. “We’ve expressed our intent to do ...

Apple gave Sun kind of the cold shoulder, not giving them the opportunity to put Java on the iPhone for Java apps. Now that the SDK is out, Sun’s decided to just take matters into their own hands and ...

Sun announced that they are developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone with the newly released Software Development Kit (SDK). "We're going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java ...

When the iPhone was first released, Steve Jobs dismissed third-party development because AT&T didn't "want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up." Not too long ...

Despite public comments by Steve Jobs that "Java’s not worth building in [to the iPhone]", it turns out that Apple did just that by using an ARM-based CPU that supports Java natively. Programmers ...