Darryl K. Taft

Atlassian, a provider of collaboration software for product development, has announced GreenHopper 6, the newest release of its agile project management and planning system that simplifies agile adoption for development teams. Atlassian announced GreenHopper 6 at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas. GreenHopper supports and enhances JIRA, Atlassian’s issue and project tracking system, to help […]

Oracle has announced the availability of several Java updates, including Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 7 Update 6 and more. In addition to Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 Update 6, Oracle announced JavaFX 2.2, as well as the first release of JavaFX Scene Builder. With this release, Oracle is providing full availability of Java […]

IBM and scientists at ETH Zurich, a leading European university, have introduced the first-ever direct mapping of the formation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor, Big Blue said. The goal of the project is to use electron spins for storing, transporting and processing information. However, up to this breakthrough, it was unclear whether […]

Red Hat announced the release of a preview version of its OpenStack distribution for enterprises. Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution is based on the popular open-source OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds. With this release, Red Hat delivers the next step in its plans for the […]

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is spending its first weekend on Mars getting a software update to give it pointers on how to drive on the red planet. NASA officials said the update prepares the rover for some of the tasks it must perform going forward, including driving and using its strong robotic arm. NASA said […]

Landing Stages Here’€™s a look at the various stages of the Curiosity landing process. Robot and Chemist This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. In this picture, the rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of […]

Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix have announced the availability of FreeBSD support for Windows Server Hyper-V. This collaboration, announced at BSDCAN 2012 in May, will help more customers adopt virtualization and move toward cloud computing, said Doug Mahugh, a senior technical evangelist at Microsoft Open Technologies, in an Aug. 9 blog post. Microsoft said […]

Microsoft is €œall in€ with crime prevention and counterterrorism as part of a new partnership between the software giant and the New York Police Department (NYPD) aimed at keeping the Big Apple safe with an innovative new system based on Microsoft technology. At an Aug. 8 press conference at the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative headquarters, […]

Google has developed Leak Finder, a new tool to help Web application developers find memory leaks in their JavaScript programs. Google’s Chrome team created the tool, as memory leaks can be common in browsers-particularly some versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, developers say. A memory leak occurs when a computer program consumes memory but is unable […]

Opera Software has announced the expansion of its U.S. operations with a new office in Silicon Valley. Officials with the Oslo, Norway-based software maker known for its browsers said commuters on Silicon Valley’s US 101 highway will notice a large new Opera logo atop a shiny office building in San Mateo, Calif. Opera Software’s new […]