Darryl K. Taft

Perfect for Touch A lot of browsers work with touch, but Microsoft contends that IE10 is the first one built for touch. IE10’s new UI works easily with a finger (or all 10 fingers), and delivers full multitouch support, and innovative features like Flip Ahead, which anticipates the next page of an article, and allows […]

Microsoft has released a new preview version of its Internet Explorer 10 browser for Windows 7. With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7, consumers can now enjoy a fast and fluid Web with the updated IE10 engine on their Windows 7 devices, said Rob Mauceri, Microsoft’s group program manager for Internet Explorer, in a […]

Jelastic, the provider of a Java cloud hosting platform, has announced the integration of the Jelastic platform as a service (PaaS) with Eclipse, the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) for Java development. The new Jelastic plug-in for Eclipse facilitates development and deployment of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) projects on this platform as […]

IBM has announced new software to help developers bring intelligence to the products, systems and applications people use every day. The new software comes from IBM’s Rational unit and covers the entire lifecycle of developing applications. From creation to development and delivery, the new software simplifies the entire process enabling organizations to reduce costs, address […]

VMware has announced a new version of its Micro Cloud Foundry, a complete version of the Cloud Foundry open platform as a service (PaaS) that runs in a single virtual machine on a developer’s computer. New features streamline the transition process from developing locally and scaling to the public cloud while adding many new capabilities […]

Typemock, a provider of unit-testing solutions, says unit-testing adoption has reached a peak in 2012 and is expanding in several sectors, including at software vendors and financial services firms. Examination of new Typemock customers in 2012 showed that independent software vendors (ISVs) had the highest demand for enterprise unit-testing tools this year, with 30 percent […]

Elasticsearch, a big data search and analytics startup, announced it has secured $10 million in Series A financing led by Benchmark Capital to help build out its analytics engine and more. In addition to Benchmark, other investors in the round include Rod Johnson, the creator of the Spring Framework and co-founder of SpringSource, and Data […]

Microsoft has open-sourced an asynchronous programming model known as Reactive Extensions or Rx. According to a post on the company’s Interoperability@Microsoft, Microsoft Open Technologies (MS Open Tech) is open-sourcing Rx, a programming model that enables developers to glue together asynchronous data streams. Microsoft said the model is particularly useful in cloud programming because it creates […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced that one of its Smarter Cities solutions will be used by the state of Maryland for its state-based health insurance exchange currently under development. IBM said it will deliver the eligibility and enrollment capabilities the state of Maryland needs to enable its citizens to find high-quality, affordable health insurance. Maryland […]

Terracotta, a provider of in-memory technologies for enterprise big data, has launched its new BigMemory Go ISV Partner Program. The new Terracotta partner program offers software vendors a way to instantly offer real-time big data access to their customers. With the recently released Terracotta BigMemory Go, vendors can snap in a simple, fast, highly scalable […]