Darryl K. Taft

With the Windows 8 release date set as Oct. 26, Microsoft has just announced that the next Windows developer conference, BUILD 2012, will be held Oct. 30 through Nov. 2 on the company€™s Redmond, Wash., campus. In a July 25 blog post, Tim O€™Brien, general manager of platform strategy in the Developer and Platform Evangelism […]

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that the league has selected the SAP HANA platform to develop a new statistical experience for its fans on NBA.com. The HANA-based real-time data platform will enable the league to bring virtually unlimited amounts of official NBA statistical information directly to fans€™ fingertips on […]

Long term, moving workloads to Amazon Web Services pays off big time for some€”to the tune of an average five-year return on investment of 626 percent and a cumulative savings of $2.5 million per application, according to the results of a study released by IDC. Although AWS commissioned IDC to analyze the long-term implications of […]

Meteor Development Group (MDG), the company behind the Meteor open-source project, which produces a platform for building software applications, has announced $11.2 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Also participating in the Series A round of funding was Matrix Partners and others, while a veritable “dream team” of enterprise technology leaders, including Rod Johnson, […]

Adobe Systems (Nasdaq:ADBE) has announced Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 software, the next generation of its single-source authoring and multi-device publishing toolkit for technical writers, help authors and instructional designers. The new version of Adobe€™s suite helps streamline the creation of popular standards-compliant technical content by leveraging native XML/Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) support. It […]

Google has launched a new Google Cloud Platform Partner Program, which enables service and technology partners to work with the search giant to provide services for and extend the functionality of Google€™s Cloud Platform suite of products. Service partners provide consulting and implementation services for Google Cloud Platform products, such as Google App Engine, Google […]

Structured Documents Are the Norm These documents use some method of embedded coding or markup to provide structural meaning according to agreed upon organizational structures or schemas. They provide benefits such as content reuse or single sourcing. Global enterprises, for example, use structured documents to reduce the costs associated with producing documents in multiple languages. […]

Mozilla€™s Firefox 15 browser is now in beta, and Firefox 16 has hit the pre-beta Aurora channel. Firefox 15, based on Gecko 15.0, will ship in August. According to Nicholas Nethercote, a programmer from Melbourne, Australia, who is working for Mozilla, Firefox 15 prevents most memory leaks caused by add-ons, including Firebug. For many users […]

The Hewlett-Packard-sponsored Enyo project has announced that Enyo 2 is moving out of beta and is now ready for production. Enyo is an object-oriented JavaScript application framework that emphasizes modularity and encapsulation. The Enyo framework was created to support application development for the HP TouchPad and the webOS platform. Although it was initially conceived as […]

AppMobi, a provider of HTML5 development tools, has announced StoreView, a new, free, cloud-based reporting service for PhoneGap and hybrid HTML5 app developers that aggregates and displays detailed app analytics across all the most popular app stores in a single dashboard. As phone and Web platforms, and new cross-platform app development frameworks and libraries proliferate, […]