Darryl K. Taft

ORLANDO, Fla. €” Taking a page from its Jazz playbook, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a range of new software solutions that will help customers create software applications faster and with higher quality across multiple development environments including cloud, mobile and complex systems. IBM said the software world€™s push toward continuously evolving systems necessitates consistency […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced several enhancements to its Smarter Computing initiative , including the introduction of a broad array of performance and efficiency enhancements to its storage and technical computing systems to focus on handling big data. As part of its ongoing Smarter Computing effort, IBM on June 4 announced a new strategic approach to […]

In addition to delivering the Release Preview of Windows 8, Microsoft also released an update to its tool suit€”Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate and .NET 4.5 RC. The newly named Visual Studio 2012€”formerly known as Visual Studio 11€”includes several tweaks and improvements over the Developer Preview and Beta releases of the technology. This release ships […]

SkyDrive SkyDrive and an Internet connection give you access to practically everything on your PC. Start Screen Here’s a view of the new Windows 8 Release Preview start screen. It has all the information you care about in one place, with tiles changing and updating in real time so you can stay on top of […]

Microsoft has delivered Windows 8 Release Preview, the company€™s final prerelease edition of its new operating system, including Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger and more. In a May 31 blog post, Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows at Microsoft, said a key goal for Windows […]

Nuance Communications, a provider of voice and language solutions, has announced that more than 10,000 developers have joined the company€™s NDEV Mobile developer program. The jump from zero to more than 10,000 mobile app developers in a little more than a year is significant in the company€™s effort to make its voice-enabling technology ubiquitous. Launched […]

Microsoft plans to make the Release Preview of Windows 8 and a preview of the newly named Visual Studio 2012 available May 31. Apparently, Microsoft let loose with a poorly timed blog post May 30 that gave details on the release, only it went out a day early and the software giant had to pull […]

IBM’s Rational tools have once again captured the top spot in developer rankings, as users of IBM’s Rational tool suite said they are more satisfied with its features and capabilities than users of any other major software development platform. According to a new Evans Data annual User’s Choice Software Development Platform survey, a competitive user […]

With open-source software adoption now commonplace in the enterprise, software compliance checking has become essential. The Linux Foundation has come up with a tool to automate the process. The Linux Foundation announced the availability of The Linux Foundation FOSS Bar Code Tracker, a new tool for tracking Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components. Released […]

4D, a provider of open-source application development solutions, has announced a new beta release of its JavaScript development platform, Wakanda Beta 2. Announced May 30 at the O€™Reilly Fluent Conference on JavaScript tools and technologies, Wakanda Beta 2 gives developers a full stack JavaScript development platform for Web and mobile business applications. The new Wakanda […]

Novell and friends have abandoned support for Moonlight, the open-source version of Microsoft€™s Silverlight rich Internet application plug-in technology, according to a founder of the project. In an interview with InfoQ, Miguel de Icaza, a well-known open-source developer and CTO of Xamarin, announced that support for Moonlight has been abandoned. €œWe have abandoned Moonlight,€ de […]

The application performance management (APM) market continues to heat up as AppDynamics, a provider of APM software, announced the release of AppDynamics Lite for .NET. AppDynamics officials called the new offering a production-ready performance monitoring tool for Microsoft€™s .NET framework. The company expanded the scope of AppDynamics Lite, which has been available for the Java […]