Darryl K. Taft

Toyota Racing Development (TRD) USA, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., is using Windows 8 technology to literally drive racers and crews in NASCAR competitions, such as the Daytona 500. TRD, which serves as the North American racing arm for design, development and assembly of Toyota’s factory racing engines and chassis, worked with Microsoft […]

Red Hat has announced general availability of the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4. With this release RHEL has been optimized for performance, stability and flexibility, and designed to help organizations manage their workloads across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux introduces several […]

Vertascale, a big data software developer, has announced the opening of its private beta for the company’s first product, SimpleSearch—a solution designed for big data queries. SimpleSearch is a real-time query and analysis engine for structured and mix-structured data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or the Hadoop File System (HDFS). Vertascale said SimpleSearch, […]

Windows Phone 8X by HTC Shed pounds with apps like Runtastic; stay motivated with Xbox Music. Price: $99 with a new AT&T account. HP Envy X2 Laptop-Tablet Convertible Work out with Windows 8 apps like Ball Strike and Abs Exercises on this laptop that doubles as a tablet. Price: $749. Nike+ Kinect Training for Xbox […]

IBM and AT&T have announced an expanded relationship to provide software developers with a set of new tools to create and deploy next-generation mobile apps. Under this new partnership, customers will benefit from access to secure, high-quality apps, including those featuring speech-recognition and mobile-payment capabilities, the companies said. AT&T has been expanding its network capabilities […]

IBM has announced security software that helps enterprises proactively reduce the security risk to iOS enterprise apps. With the new software, users will be able to build security testing into the initial design of mobile apps so that vulnerabilities can be detected early in the development process, before being deployed to customers or employees. IBM’s […]

Enterprise Big Data Initiatives Move Out of the Sandbox In 2012, enterprise adoption of big data initiatives rose faster than most had predicted. A recent Computerworld study of 300 large enterprises found the volume of data will increase by 60 percent in 2013, with 13 percent reporting they have big data initiatives already in place. […]

Diving in deep with mobile solutions, IBM has unveiled IBM MobileFirst, a comprehensive mobile portfolio that combines new solutions in mobile security, analytics and application development software, with cloud-based services and deep mobile services expertise. Using IBM MobileFirst, businesses can now streamline everything from the management of employee’s mobile devices, to the creation of a […]

Oracle has gained some powerful support in its appeal of its loss in the Android-Java patent-infringement case against Google, as Microsoft and a host of other industry leaders lend their support for the Oracle side. Microsoft, along with EMC, NetApp and the Business Software Alliance (BSA), has filed amicus curiae or “friend of the court” […]

HP Envy x2 The HP Envy x2 offers the power of a notebook with the freedom of a tablet. The Envy x2 easily switches from notebook to tablet and back again. The device weighs 3.1 pounds and, when separated, the tablet portion weighs 1.5 pounds. The Envy x2 features an optimized Windows 8 touch interface, […]