On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. With the purchase of Sun, Oracle entered the hardware business and obtained the Java programming ...

The rumor of another tsunami approaching the coast of Indonesia starts a mass panic Wednesday in the same area where a wave devastated coastal settlements Monday. That tsunami, triggered by an ...

As darkness fell at least 30 bodies were piled up at one clinic near the coast, including several children covered in white sheets, and thousands of terrified residents set up camp in the hills ...

Aesih Irawan was drinking iced tea at a friend’s house near the beach in Pangandaran, a resort town on the Indonesian island of Java, when the ocean crashed through the living room. The 27-year-old ...

The Java coastal area was spared by the devastating Asian tsunami of 2004, but many residents recognized the danger when they saw the sea recede. At least 23,000 people fled their homes, either ...