Darryl K. Taft

Surface Windows 8 Pro With Type Cover The Surface Windows 8 Pro, shown with an optional Type Cover, will be available in the United States and Canada Feb. 9 at a starting price of $899. Available in 64GB and 128GB versions, Surface Windows 8 Pro comes bundled with Surface Pen, and provides the power and […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — IBM has announced new software and cloud-based services to help business leaders, such as chief marketing officers and chief human resource officers, further transform their organizations into social businesses. The new offerings, announced Jan. 28 at IBM Connect 2013, will help business leaders integrate IBM’s social networking and analytics technologies into their […]

Attunity, a provider of information availability software solutions, has announced the release of a new version of its big data replication solution for Apache Hadoop, the Attunity RepliWeb for Enterprise File Replication (EFR). The latest version of the Attunity solution is designed to enable organizations to quickly and easily replicate data files to, from and […]

Microsoft has updated its Windows Azure Store with new add-ons and availability in new markets. At its BUILD 2012 conference, Microsoft announced the Windows Azure Store, which enables users to discover, purchase and provision premium add-on services, provided by Microsoft partners, for cloud-based applications. “For example, you can use the Windows Azure Store to easily […]

Apache Given the broad interest in Hadoop as a big data wrangling technology, the Apache Foundation, which hosts the Hadoop open source project, was the most frequently cited “vendor,” accounting for 9.4 percent of the posts Ovum analyzed. 10Gen NoSQL database vendor 10Gen came in just behind Apache, at 6.2 percent of all posts. Although […]

IBM researchers have come up with a new antimicrobial hydrogel to fight drug-resistant superbugs and biofilms. Big Blue made its breakthrough as superbugs and drug-resistant diseases, particularly hospital-born ailments such Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, continue to be a problem. IBM teamed up with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology to announce an antimicrobial […]

Microsoft announced fiscal 2013 quarterly revenue of $21.46 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2012. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $7.77 billion, $6.38 billion and $0.76 per share, led by a boost in Windows sales and overall enterprise business, the company said. However, net income was […]

Microsoft has released a software development kit update for Windows Phone 7.8. The SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8 adds two new emulator images to the existing Windows Phone SDK installation. This update supports both the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and the Windows Phone SDK 8.0. Using this update, developers can provide the Windows Phone […]

Though the issue of big data may appear to be overexposed to some, the message coming from one tech analyst firm is “Do Believe the Hype.” Sentiment surrounding big data vendors remained positive last year, despite skeptics’ suggestions that the subject had been “overhyped,” according to Ovum. The big data buzzword even managed to transcend […]

IBM announced fourth-quarter 2012 net income of $5.8 billion compared with $5.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 6 percent. Big Blue’s total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 were $29.3 billion, a decrease of 1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011. However, without the impact of IBM’s divested […]

Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, has announced a new offering to help enterprises quickly get the hang of working with Hadoop and other projects in the Hadoop big data ecosystem. Presented as a free 2GB download, the new Hortonworks Sandbox is a self-contained virtual machine with Apache Hadoop preconfigured. It is essentially a […]

As the company predicted, Objective-C won TIOBE’s Programming Language Award for the second consecutive year. The TIOBE Index measures the popularity of programming languages. The award is given to the programming language that gained most market share in 2012. According to TIOBE, the market share of Objective-C is 3.37 percent higher than it was in […]