Darryl K. Taft

IBM (NYSE: IBM) this week introduced new software to help mobile workers better tap into big data. The new offering, IBM Content Navigator, enables traditional and mobile workers to securely access, manage and gain insight from structured and unstructured content, such as emails, documents, images, Web data and collaboration tools to improve productivity, IBM said […]

Infragistics, a maker of design and user-experience (UX) software and user-interface (UI) development tools, has released NetAdvantage for jQuery Community Edition. NetAdvantage for jQuery Community Edition is an entry-level version of Infragistics€™ HTML5 and jQuery UX toolset. jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library. The new community edition comes with a full suite of HTML5 controls […]

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the availability of the Apache Traffic Server v3.2, the latest stable release of the technology. The Apache Traffic Server is a high-performance cloud computing service that serves dynamic content, billions of objects and terabytes of data for large-scale deployments in use at Akamai, Comcast, GoDaddy, LinkedIn, Yahoo and other […]

As consumer desire for mobile apps and games continues to grow, North American software developers are getting younger, according to a recent study by Evans Data. The median age of software developers in North America has declined significantly since reaching a peak of 46 in 2008 to just 38 today. This makes North American developers […]

NEW YORK €” The application development landscape is in the midst of a major era shift based on the “perfect storm” provided by the emergence of cloud, mobile and HTML5 as dominant themes in modern systems, said a top Oracle development executive. Indeed, the shift from hard-core object-oriented languages to more Web-oriented development platforms is, […]

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, the latest version of its open-source application development platform. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, which features a new cloud-ready architecture, new management capabilities and enhanced usability, is aimed at helping enterprises and their developers decrease time-to-market for application delivery and reduce […]

Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8, the next version of its smartphone OS, along with a new software development kit for WP8, which will arrive later this summer. Microsoft made the announcement at a Windows Phone Summit event in San Francisco June 20. Microsoft also said the next release of Windows Phone is based on Windows […]

Surface Touch Cover The 3mm Touch Cover represents a step forward in human-computer interface, according to Microsoft. Using a unique pressure-sensitive technology, the Touch Cover senses keystrokes as gestures, enabling you to touch type significantly faster than with an on-screen keyboard. It will be available in a selection of vibrant colors. Surface Side Profile Surface […]

JetBrains, the maker of popular productivity-enhancing tools€”such as IDEA IntelliJ€”for software developers, has released a major update version of dotCover, the company€™s .NET code coverage tool. The new dotCover 2.0 helps .NET developers easily see how thoroughly their applications are covered with unit tests. Initially released as a code coverage add-in to JetBrains ReSharper, dotCover […]

What Is Big Data? Big data is comprised of structured data, which is data that fits cleanly into spreadsheets and databases, and unstructured data, which is human-generated information such as emails, videos, tweets, Facebook posts, call center conversations, closed circuit TV footage, mobile phone calls, and Website clicks. Unstructured “diverse data” now makes up more […]