Sun Microsystems will spend tens of millions of dollars to emblazon all manner of computing products with a new Java logo, the company plans to unveil next week at its JavaOne conference. Under ...

Putting the Java logo all over the place won't change that." In the past, Sun has attempted to tie the Java brand to things that are barely even tangentially related, probably for similar reasons.

According to Mr. Kohn, this Java logo screen also diverts the low-resolution logo that Java programmer Joe Davission had once made when running Commodore 64 Java.

In both her books and Java House designs, the local artist uses a unique style of art — a technique called scratchboard. It is a black board that when scratched, reveals white. Her method is to create ...