Darryl K. Taft

Adobe released its Adobe Digital Index 2013 online shopping data for Cyber Monday indicating a whopping $2.29 billion in online sales for the day. Indeed, Adobe’s data showed that online sales for Cyber Monday increased by 16 percent year-over-year (YoY). Adobe reported that total online sales for Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday jumped 26 percent to […]

IBM continues to push its smarter infrastructure technology into growth markets, which the company has targeted as a rich opportunity for expansion. IBM, which has extended its banking technology into emerging markets, recently opened its first research center in Africa; the 2,000-square-foot facility opened Nov. 8 in Nairobi, Kenya. IBM Research-Africa addresses key challenges of […]

Developer Collaboration: 10 Tips to Make App Development More Efficient by Darryl K. Taft Centralize Your Team’s Information The average employee receives more than 300 emails weekly, checks his/her email three-dozen times per hour, and spends 16 minutes refocusing after dealing with email. Teams can be more organized and productive by centralizing information in one […]

U.S. shoppers made Cyber Monday the biggest online shopping day in history, with a 20.6 percent increase in online sales, data from the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark show. IBM said mobile sales led the way, exceeding 17 percent of total online sales, an increase of 55.4 percent year-over-year, according to results from the cloud-based IBM […]

IBM, which has been closely tracking online commerce over the past weekend, reports that mobile traffic continues to be strong on Cyber Monday, following strong mobile buying over the Thanksgiving holiday, into Black Friday and over the weekend. In an update based on online consumer spending as of 3 p.m. Eastern Time today, IBM said […]

Remember the old days of trading cards and swapping them with friends? Well, they’re digital now, available on your smartphone and powered by MongoDB. MongoDB announced that its NoSQL database powers the digital trading card platform from The Topps Company, the classic American sports card company and recent creator of innovative mobile apps. The digital […]

IBM Helps Retailers Be Competitive in Holiday Buying Season By Darryl K. Taft Retailers Embrace Technology for Consumer Insight As the holiday shopping season arrives, retailers require various analytical tools to ensure optimal effectiveness of their sales and marketing strategies. Retailers need to provide their customers with new ways to interact and shop, while also […]

Opscode, a provider of IT automation solutions, announced that Infochimps, a CSC big data business and a provider of cloud-based big data services for the enterprise, has automated its Infochimps Cloud for Big Data with Opscode Enterprise Chef. Using Enterprise Chef, Infochimps has automated configuration management and application delivery for its big data platform, enabling […]

WibiData, provider of a big data app development platform, has launched WibiEnterprise 3.0, an enterprise software platform for developing and deploying real-time big data applications. WibiData said WibiEnterprise 3.0 bridges the gap between Hadoop and the application layer, enabling enterprises to connect consumer applications with real-time, data-driven features like personalized content, predictive recommendations, dynamic micro-segmentation, […]

IBM has patented a technique for combining big data from cloud services with data stored on in-house IT systems to gain insights that could enable greater business efficiency and performance. The cloud computing invention, for which IBM received U.S. Patent #8,504,400: Dynamically Optimized Distributed Cloud Computing-based Business Process Management (BPM) System, provides a method for […]