Darryl K. Taft

Tasktop Technologies, creator of Eclipse Mylyn and provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) integration solutions, has announced that its Tasktop Sync 2.5 provides full support for Rational Team Concert (RTC) 4.0. Officials at Vancouver, B.C.-based Tasktop said the company provides the de facto industry standard for integrating increasingly heterogeneous ALM tool stacks with improved data […]

Will Xamarin’s new tool Xamarin.Mac help boost the use of Microsoft’s C# for building mobile applications? Well, Xamarin certainly hopes its technology for building Mac apps with C# will do just that. And to a lesser extent, Microsoft is probably somewhat positive on the new technology itself, as it gives C# developers another outlet for […]

As it moves closer to the launch of its BlackBerry 10 platform, Research In Motion recently released the “gold” build of the BlackBerry 10 software development kit. The “gold” build includes all of the final tools, components, and APIs that will enable developers to create integrated, social applications for BlackBerry 10. Native C/C++ and Qt […]

Appcelerator, a mobile development platform provider, and analyst firm IDC released results of a survey that showed developers foresee a continued surge in mobile commerce and the transformation of retail business to mobile platforms. In their joint fourth quarter 2012 study, Appcelerator and IDC surveyed nearly 3,000 mobile developers and a vast majority said they […]

Leave it to IBM to get the goods on the shopping experience of the future, but according to Big Blue, the consumers of the future will be more mobile, social and self-sufficient, willing to share details on themselves and their preferences in exchange for highly personalized relationships with their favorite stores. This all comes from […]

Typemock, a provider of unit-testing solutions, has announced a free mocking and unit-testing alternative to open-source and other free mocking tools. The company is offering a “basic” version of its core unit-testing solution free. Typemock Isolator Basic includes many of the most useful unit-testing components available based in its leading enterprise tools at no cost. […]

Amazon Web Services recently awarded prizes for innovative use of its Spot Instances, which are excess instances of the company’s industry-leading Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud computing capacity. PiCloud and Princeton Consultants won the grand prize and runner-up awards for their use of AWS Spot Instances in the first annual Spotathon, said Stephen Elliott, senior product […]

MuleSoft, provider of an integration platform for connecting SaaS and enterprise applications in the cloud and on-premise, has announced APIhub, a public repository and community for APIs. APIhub enables developers and enterprises to discover and use more than 13,000 APIs and enables application developers and software as a service (SaaS) providers to publish and document […]

Coverity, a provider of static analysis and development testing tools, has announced the hire of a key Microsoft C# guru, Eric Lippert, as architect in the Coverity research and development organization. Prior to Coverity, Lippert spent the past 16 years at Microsoft where he worked on the company’s C# compiler service project as a principal […]

IBM Research has announced a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing. The Big Blue breakthrough comes in the area of silicon nanophotonics, which allows the integration of different optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits on a single silicon chip using, for the first […]

Despite the availability of a wealth of development tools and agile methodologies, an alarming 36 percent of the 200 North American organizations surveyed in a recent study found defects in new releases that had gone into production, according to CA Technologies. In addition, only 4 percent of those surveyed claimed that errors are never found […]

Mozilla announced that Firefox for Android has expanded its HTML5 video capabilities to include H.264 video playback. In a Nov. 29 blog post, Chris Peterson, developer on Mozilla’s Firefox for Android team, said Web developers have been using Adobe Flash to play H.264 video on Firefox for Android, but Adobe no longer supports Flash for […]