Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft Open Technologies announced its release of an open-source project called Kinect Common Bridge for Kinect for Windows. This project enables developers to easily integrate Kinect scenarios and experiences into applications. For instance, a developer could build an app that allows users to control a 3D model animation with your body, Minority Report style, Olivier […]

Senior Android application developers tend to earn more money than similarly experienced iOS developers, according to data from worldwide recruiting and staffing firm CyberCoders. At the senior level, Android developers receive an average of $10,000 more a year in salary than their iOS counterparts, according to CyberCoders, which compiled its research from information from 2011 […]

PHP Leads the Way to Enterprise Agility at ZendCon 2013 By Darryl K. Taft The ZendCon MC Joe Stagner, director of developer strategy at Zend, acts as master of ceremonies, opening the ZendCon 2013 show and setting the agenda for the conference. The CMO Sets the Tone Elaine Lennox, chief marketing officer at Zend, set […]

IBM and Semtech, a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, have announced a significant advancement in wireless technology that could benefit the Internet of things. The companies are combining IBM software and Semtech hardware to create a system capable of transmitting data up to a distance of 15 kilometers, or 9 miles, depending on the […]

IBM Research has opened a new lab focused specifically on big data. On Oct. 10, IBM announced the Accelerated Discovery Lab, a new collaborative environment targeted at helping clients find unknown relationships from disparate data sets. Some of the industry applications being considered at the new lab are drug development, social analytics and predictive maintenance. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Google has announced general availability of its preview of PHP on Google App Engine. At the ZendCon 2013 conference here, Peter S. Magnusson, a Google engineering director, announced during a keynote that the offering, initially announced in limited preview at Google I/O in May, is now available to the general public. Magnusson also […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Zend has announced the launch of a new open-source project called Apigility, which is known as an opinionated API builder. Launched at ZendCon, the PHP 2013 Conference here, the Apigility project has a goal of providing an easy way to create and maintain high-quality API-based applications. Apigility uses the Zend Framework as its […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Zend announced new offerings designed to empower companies to become more agile in their delivery of new applications. At its ZendCon 2013 PHP conference here, Zend announced a new API framework as well as a new Blueprint for Continuous Delivery. That blueprint is a broad solution built on the Zend Server platform that […]

MongoDB, provider of the MongoDB NoSQL database, recently announced it has secured a whopping $150 million in financing, led by a global financial services company and by certain funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, with additional new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com. The funding round also included participation from existing investors Intel […]

Splunk recently announced Splunk Cloud, a new service that delivers Splunk Enterprise in the cloud. However, at least one competitor is asking whether Splunk Cloud is a cop-out. In a blog post, Charlie Oppenheimer, CEO of Spunk competitor Loggly, claims that Splunk has given up on software as a service (SaaS). “It appears that Splunk […]

LAS VEGAS–Fortscale, an Israeli-based big data cyber-security analytics startup, announced a new big data security solution, Fortscale 1.0, at .conf2013, Splunk’s annual worldwide users’ conference here. Currently in beta, Fortscale 1.0 enables enterprises to easily run big data analytics for cyber-security. The analytics are layered on top of the existing capabilities of big data platforms, […]

LAS VEGAS—INETCO Systems announced the beta availability of INETCO NetStream, a new product for streaming rich transaction event data to Splunk Enterprise. Announced at conf2013, the Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference 2013 here, INETCO NetStream collects network data, transforms it into rich transaction events and streams this data in real time into Splunk Enterprise. This new […]