Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced that SHOP.CA, Canada€™s largest online e-commerce marketplace, is using analytics software from IBM€™s Smarter Commerce Initiative to help engage increasingly empowered online consumers in a unique shopping experience, and build loyalty and a sense of community. IBM continues to gain wins with its Smarter Commerce strategy, this time with SHOP.CA. SHOP.CA€™s online marketplace […]

ActiveState, a maker of development tools for dynamic language developers and that enable the enterprise to move from code to cloud, has announced the general availability of Stackato 2.0, an application platform for creating a private platform as a service (PaaS). Stackato 2.0 now supports .NET applications, offers Web-based visual cluster management and delivers performance […]

CumuLogic announced the general availability of its CumuLogic Cloud Application Platform v1.0, a platform that enables cloud service providers to build a Java platform as a service in their data centers. With the cloud space continuing to consolidate and things heating up in the PaaS market, CumuLogic says its platform transforms virtualized environments and infrastructure […]

Telerik, a maker of application development software, has announced a major update of its Kendo UI, a unified framework for building HTML5 and JavaScript mobile apps and sites. This release includes a set of controls and widgets for creating rich iPad user interfaces, as well as the first in a series of server-side wrappers to […]

Garbage Collection Objective-C has all the benefits of Java (no memory management hassles for the programmer), but it has the deterministic resource release of C++. It accomplishes this feat of magic through Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Also, this means that there are no “garbage collection stalls” or program stuttering because there isn’t any garbage collection. […]

When it comes to business analytics software, analysts say €œdo believe the hype,€ as the market is expected to grow to $50.7 billion in 2016. According to market research firm IDC, the business analytics software market grew by 14.1 percent in 2011 and will continue to grow at a 9.8 percent annual rate, to reach […]

Microsoft WPC 2012 Kick-Off Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (right) kicks off WPC on July 9 in Toronto by welcoming partners to “a new era.” Windows at WPC Tami Reller, corporate vice president and CFO, Windows and Windows Live, highlighted new partner scenarios within the Windows 8 experience. Microsofts Partner Leader Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, […]

The business of software development continues to attract attention from top-flight investors, as GitHub announced its acceptance of a $100 million round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz. Software runs the world and as GitHub enables teams of developers to work together easier and better, it made for a nice investment for Andreessen Horowitz. In fact, […]

VMware (NYSE: VMW) has announced VMware vFabric Data Director 2.0 with support for virtualization of Oracle databases on VMware vSphere. vFabric Data Director 2.0 simplifies and automates database lifecycle management, allowing IT to deliver database as a service in order to increase developer agility while reducing total cost of ownership for databases, VMware said €œThe […]

dotCloud, provider of a popular polyglot programming platform as a service (PaaS) solution, has announced the release of dotCloud JS, a new environment for rapid prototyping and development of Web applications, based entirely on JavaScript and HTML5. dotCloud prides itself on making things easy for developers and IT shops, and now, with just a few […]