Darryl K. Taft

Introducing modern.IE Microsoft’s modern.IE is a resource for developers that includes three key things: a new automated code-scanning tool for sites that outlines small code fixes to help ensure sites address past browser versions while taking advantage of modern browser features; a three-month free subscription to BrowserStack, making it easy to test legacy versions of […]

Major Social Business Trends IBM’s Sandy Carter said the true social enterprise is way beyond marketing. She cited the example of an Asian retailer that has Facebook-like “like” tags on the hangers for their clothing to let potential buyers know how many people like the product. Beyond Marketing Employees and customers are impacted when an […]

Black Duck Software has announced the 2012 Open Source Rookies of the Year, a list of hot new open-source projects initiated in 2012. Black Duck reviewed thousands of open-source projects started in 2012 to select this year’s group of Open Source Rookies. This is the fifth year Black Duck has compiled a list of top […]

Jelastic, a provider of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, has announced the release of a new PHP hosting service. Initially offered as a Java service, Jelastic’s new PHP PaaS runs applications without code changes and offers advanced options for experienced programmers. Jelastic is known for its advanced functionality that is both easy to use and flexible and […]

Microsoft has introduced a new way for developers to test Websites for compatibility with Internet Explorer, modern.IE. Modern.IE is a free set of tools and resources designed to make it easier for developers to ensure their sites work beautifully across Internet Explorer as well as other modern browsers, said Ryan Gavin, general manager of Internet […]

Microsoft has announced that its Team Foundation Server (TFS) will provide support for hosting Git repositories, the popular open-source distributed version control system (DVCS). Brian Harry, a Microsoft technical fellow and product unit manager for TFS, announced the news at the ALM Summit Jan. 30 at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus. He said Microsoft will include […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – IBM’s Lotus legacy has evolved into a new company focus on delivering software that helps organizations better collaborate and become more social enterprises. At the IBM Connect 2013 conference here, IBM pulled off the transformation from using its Lotus brand to herald its set of technologies that enable enterprise users to better […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Polycom, a provider of open-standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), and Meetrix, a cloud enabler and integrator, announced a partnership to integrate their respective solutions to offer customers cloud-delivered social video collaboration services. The partnership integrates Meetrix’s unified communications cloud service for IBM Sametime and Polycom’s video infrastructure software—either on-premises or cloud-delivered […]

The Beginning Lotus was founded as Lotus Development Corp. in 1982 by Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs, with venture capital backing from Ben Rosen of the Sevin Rosen venture capital firm. First Product Lotus’ first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System. Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus released Lotus 1-2-3 […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — IBM announced that Fluor Corp., an engineering, construction and project management company, is using IBM social business technology to connect its global workforce of 43,000 employees around the world. With IBM social software, Fluor employees are more effectively communicating, collaborating and spurring innovation across the company’s construction sites and engineering offices. In […]