Darryl K. Taft

VMware€™s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service team has announced a new release of Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse, which features the ability to open a tunnel to any Cloud Foundry data service. With the new integration, Eclipse users can use familiar client applications to directly analyze, manipulate or port the data contained in their Cloud Foundry applications, […]

The Apache Software Foundation recently announced Apache Deltacloud v1.0, which provides several Web service APIs for interacting with cloud service providers in a unified, interoperable manner. The Apache Deltacloud project comprises many implementations for the most popular clouds offerings and provides client libraries for a wide variety of languages. The project graduated from the Apache […]

Photos Photo emails are brought to life with slide shows that launch directly out of Outlook.com with one click. Modern Email Outlook.com, Microsoft’s new cloud mail service, has a fresh and intuitive design, enriches conversations by connecting to Facebook and Twitter, and provides a smart inbox with the power of Office and SkyDrive. Chat From […]

Oracle has announced the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c, the latest release of its tooling for the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) that introduces new design-time tools for Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF). Oracle ADF is a standards based, strategic framework for Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, and […]

Microsoft is moving to stop using the term €œMetro€ to describe the definitive applications that run on its Windows 8 operating system, according to a report. When Microsoft initially introduced Windows 8 last year at its BUILD conference in September, the company described Metro-style apps as being key to the touch-first user interface of the […]

Metal Detector Here’s a page from IBM THINK, a free app for iPad and Android tablets that celebrates centuries of science and tech innovations. It is an “innovation time machine” that shows how early tools have evolved into modern advances that create healthier populations, greener energy and safer, less congested cities. This slide describes an […]

IBM has announced that its new IBM PureSystems expert integrated hardware solutions are seeing increasing success in emerging markets. Big Blue officials said more than 700 business partners have adopted IBM PureSystems and more than 1,300 have completed IBM training for the systems, with a large number of those being in what IBM refers to […]

AppFog, maker of a polyglot programming platform as a service (PaaS) for cloud-based application deployment and management, announced a new collaboration with Rackspace to enable its customers to deploy applications to the open Rackspace Cloud powered by OpenStack. In addition, AppFog€™s solution will be available through the recently announced Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace. AppFog will […]

ASUS Eee Slate EP121 Equipped with an Intel Core i5-470UM processor and Windows 7 Home Premium, the 12.1-inch Eee Slate delivers the processing power and business productivity tools of a notebook PC in a portable tablet form factor. Confidential data is protected with the onboard Trusted Platform Module and Computrace LoJack for Laptops (subscription required). […]

Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing of Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Server 2012, and also completed the final builds of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5. The release to manufacturing, or RTM, of Windows 8 marks the completion of product development and testing. OEM partners are now armed with final code, […]