Darryl K. Taft

Mozilla has released Firefox 15 to its pre-beta Aurora channel and the new release comes with some major new features and improvements to the built-in tools for Web developers. Perhaps the biggest change in Firefox 15 is that it ships with a debugger that developers can use to find issues with their JavaScript code. The […]

Objective-C, the language of the Apple world of iOS and the Mac, has overtaken C++ in a key index that measures the most popular programming languages in use today. The TIOBE programming community index shows Objective-C as the third most popular programming language behind first-place C and second-place Java, suggesting that the popularity of mobile […]

Rod Johnson has left the building, but he left a sign on the wall for the Java elite: Rod was here. Johnson, the founder and CEO of SpringSource and the creator of the Spring Framework, announced that he has left his position as senior vice president of application platform strategy and general manager of the […]

Microsoft has announced that upgrades to Windows 8 from previous versions of the operating system will go for $39.99 via download and $69.99 if purchased in a store. The low-cost upgrade is positioned as a promotion available only from the time Windows 8 ships this fall until Jan. 31, 2013, Microsoft said. Users running Windows […]

Life’s a Beach More and more, despite attempts to leave it all behind, IT personnel are taking their work with them on vacations and even on family day trips and outings. While eWEEK does not condone this, we say that if you’re going to do it, you may as well do it right. SolarWinds Mobile […]

The Market Opportunity Despite the advances of technology, 92 percent of retail volume still takes place in the brick-and-mortar store. Devices Galore Gartner predicts that 1 billion smartphones will be sold in 2014. The In-Store Opportunity Consumers are more likely to shop in stores than to buy using a mobile phone. However, once in the […]

IBM announced that it achieved strong sustainability results in energy conservation, data center energy efficiency and environmental responsibility to the tune of saving $43 million in electricity expenses last year. Big Blue said that not only did it save more than $43 million in electricity expenses, but it also conserved 378,000 megawatt-hours of electricity€”enough to […]

The NetBeans community has announced a release candidate of version 7.2 of the open-source NetBeans Java integrated development environment (IDE). NetBeans 7.2 will be the next revision of the IDE and features improvements in security as well as enhanced support for other languages such as PHP, Groovy, C, C++ and more. The release candidate is […]

Mozilla said the Firefox phone is the real deal and should start hitting the scene in 2013. Mozilla announced a clear and distinct increase in momentum behind its plans to launch an open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5, including new commitments from device manufacturers and carriers to support the strategy and deliver devices powered by […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is testing a new augmented-reality mobile shopping app that enables retailers to personalize each individual customer€™s shopping experience right from the palm of their hands, via their smart phone or tablet. The new app out of IBM Research is what IBM refers to as an augmented-reality mobile shopping app that will make […]