software development kit for Apple's iPhone

Sun will make Java work for iPhone
After the release of the software development kit for Apple's iPhone, Sun Microsystems says it's going to enable Java applications to run on the device, InfoWorld is reporting.

Sun will build a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), based on the Java Micro Edition version of the programming language after June of this year. It will be available in the iPhone AppStore. Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, told InfoWorld Friday that although Apple passed on enabling Java on the iPhone, Sun decided to do so anyway after Thursday's SDK unveiling. After combing through the documents for the SDK and seeing nothing that barred it from doing so, Sun decided to go for it.

"We're going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible," Klein said.

Java on the iPhone will mean that versions of software, like customer relationship management and other enterprise applications, could be available on the device.

Medical students will soon be able to dissect cadavers twice - once for real and again on a special computer program that simulates everything from or

Computers let medical students operate on digital cadavers
Medical students will soon be able to dissect cadavers twice - once for real and again on a special computer program that simulates everything from organs to blood vessels and bones, according to the University of Heidelberg. The university says it will be the first to offer a seminar of this kind in Germany. It says the 3D imaging program should help students to orientate themselves within the human body and better learn anatomical structures.

The new course, called "virtual anatomy," has been running parallel to traditional anatomy courses with cadavers since the start of the 2007/2008 winter semester.

"This way the students can view structures that are hard to reach and usually have to be cut away," said Sara Doll, who runs the university clinic's anatomy courses.

The course was developed by the Institute for Anatomy in cooperation with the DKFZ German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg.