Darryl K. Taft

Visa recently introduced the Visa Developer Center, a source of tools to enable developers producing e-commerce, mobile and social network payments to have access to Visa’s capabilities and expertise while maintaining Visa’s security standards. Aiming to simplify and accelerate the development and adoption of innovative payment products globally, Visa launched its new developer center. The […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, VMware’s Cloud Foundry was seen as the best platform as a service cloud development platform by developers polled. In the survey, only those developers who use a particular platform were asked to rank the attributes of the platform. Cloud Foundry achieved the highest overall score, while IBM’s cloud […]

Jelastic, a new startup, has announced its namesake flagship product, which it refers to as a next-generation platform-as-a-service technology. The new PaaS offering is for building and running any Java application in the cloud instead of from a PC-speeding development time and maximizing computing resources, Jelastic officials said. Jelastic enables developers to make code changes […]

Show Me the Money! Hadoop and Big Data represent huge opportunity in the IT space, and money is flowing into the market. Cloudera closed a $40 million round of venture funding and Accel Partners launched a new $100 million Big Data Fund to find the next hot company to enter the space. Growth Use of […]

Narrowed Focus In restructuring the company, Adobe said it will focus on two market segments—digital media and digital market. Stay Creative Adobe will continue to deliver innovation on PCs through its Creative Suite software while extending its customer reach through tablet-based touch apps and cloud-based software delivery. Subscriptions Adobe is making a shift to more […]

If information is power, then Microsoft is looking at its Windows Embedded group to play a key role in making the software giant a lot more powerful as the unit lays the foundation for a new world of intelligent systems. Microsoft is looking to be a major player in the new world of the Internet […]

Appcelerator and industry analyst firm IDC have announced results of a survey that shows developers are highly interested in building apps for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, with a resurgence of interest in Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. Appcelerator, a maker of an integrated mobile platform for rapidly developing native and HTML5 mobile Web applications, and IDC […]

Adobe explained the thinking behind its move to kill Flash for mobile platforms, essentially saying that HTML5 is where developers should focus instead of Flash on mobile. In a Nov. 9 blog post, Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager of interactive development at Adobe, said over the past two years Adobe has delivered Flash […]

After announcing plans to restructure and lay off 750 employees, Adobe has followed up with news of plans to shut down its work on the mobile version of its Flash Player. According to a report first seen on ZDNet, Adobe told developer partners of its plans to stop development of its Flash mobile browser plug-in […]

Adobe Systems announced a company restructuring that will result in the loss of about 750 jobs, primarily in North America and Europe. On Nov. 8, the San Jose, Calif., maker of content authoring solutions that enable customers to create, distribute and monetize digital content provided a business update for its fourth-quarter fiscal year 2011, ending […]

Match Made in IT Heaven This has been a long time coming. It connects two of the most well-known corporate computing environments. Eliminating Silos These systems typically operate in individual silos, requiring separate staff and software tools to manage, with the additional complexity of interacting and communicating with each other in real time. Backed by […]

NEW YORK-Big Data is getting paid. That is a key message coming out of the Hadoop World conference here. On Nov. 7 Cloudera announced the receipt of a $40 million round of venture capital funding, and the very next day at Hadoop World, Accel Partners announced a $100 million fund to invest in Big Data […]