Darryl K. Taft

IBM and Synnex have announced a definitive agreement in which Synnex will acquire IBM’s worldwide customer care business process outsourcing services unit for $505 million, consisting of approximately $430 million in cash and $75 million in stock. According to the companies, the acquisition will be branded and integrated with Concentrix, a wholly owned subsidiary of […]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013: Key New Features for Developers by Darryl K. Taft Work Item Charting Work Item Charting enables developers to create charts quickly to visualize data from work item queries. These charts can be created with just a few clicks and refresh automatically as data is updated. Developers can create a variety of […]

Oracle has released a new version of its Java Development Kit, JDK 7 Update 40 (JDK 7u40), which includes new diagnostic, monitoring, security and deployment capabilities for Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7). The latest features and enhancements to JDK 7 include advanced monitoring and diagnostic capabilities that enable developers to gather detailed […]

As part of its move to go private, BMC Software announced the successful completion of its acquisition by a private investor group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital together with Insight Venture Partners, GIC Special Investments and Elliott Management—collectively known as the Investor Group. BMC, a longtime maker of software automation and integration […]

IBM and Continental have entered into a partnership to develop connected vehicle technology based on IBM’s big data and cloud expertise. At the Frankfurt IAA (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung) International Motor Show, the international automotive supplier Continental and IBM announced a collaboration agreement that will see the companies jointly develop fully connected mobile vehicle solutions for car […]

Microsoft announced Sept. 10 the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate and noted that the company’s flagship application development suite will release to manufacturing (RTM) on Oct. 18. Microsoft also announced that it will be making its Windows 8.1 bits available to developers, which had been a point of contention between the devices and […]

IBM has announced a new Digital Loan Processing platform that integrates the core lending business process with mobile applications and analytics, allowing lenders to transform the online mortgage loan experience for customers. The new solution enables borrowers to handle, in real-time, every aspect of the loan application process, including applying online, uploading documents, acting on […]

Even as eWEEK celebrates its 30th anniversary, Borland International’s Turbo Pascal, a seminal work in the evolution of software development tools, will celebrate its 30th anniversary in November 2013. Speaking fondly of “the good old days,” upon request for a comment on programming in the ’80s, Turbo Pascal creator Anders Hejlsberg told eWEEK it was […]

Zend Technologies, the PHP company, announced that continued growth in demand for its PHP software as well as demand for trained PHP engineers is driving momentum for the company and for PHP as a language. As such, Zend also announced its 10,000th Zend Certified Engineer. Geert Bergman, a Utrecht, Netherlands based technical adviser, is the […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the availability of Apache Cassandra v2.0, the latest version of the highly scalable, NoSQL big data distributed database. Apache Cassandra powers massive data sets quickly and reliably without compromising performance, whether running in the cloud or partially on-premise in a hybrid data store, ASF officials said. New features […]

Enterprise cloud computing could see explosive growth over the next two years, according to a recent analyst report. TheInfoPro, a service of 451 Research, released its latest cloud computing study, which projects big growth in the number of enterprise cloud computing projects. Indeed, 60 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by TheInfoPro said they […]

IBM announced that three organizations in India have selected IBM’s cloud-based disaster-recovery service to ensure business continuity and operational resiliency. IBM said its SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery (VSR) platform will provide these organizations with managed server recovery that will ensure faster restoration, while minimizing data loss and enabling continued customer service in any disaster scenario. […]