Darryl K. Taft

The Application Developers Alliance announced a bunch of new members, including App Partner Development, Apptology, Banjo, ChallengePost, Marmalade, Thumb Arcade, TVCOFA and Wink Nudge. All of these groups have joined as corporate partners of the alliance, which is an association for the developers and entrepreneurs building the software industry. €œIt€™s vitally important to promote and […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that its cloud technology is being used as part of an effort to improve health-care delivery in Haiti through a collaboration with “Colleagues In Care” Global Health Network. The organization is using IBM cloud-based social analytics and collaboration services to provide the global network of health-care volunteers with immediate access to […]

Microsoft has added new tooling support for JavaScript in Visual Studio 11. In a recent blog post, Jason Zander, Microsoft€™s corporate vice president for the Visual Studio team said Microsoft has added a slew of improvements to Visual Studio 11 to make things easier and better for JavaScript developers. Visual Studio 11 is the next […]

Vaunted Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) announced the closing of a new $525 million fund known as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers XV, LLC (KPCB 15). The new venture capital fund focuses on investments in early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies. The fund will […]

At Microsoft’s Security Development Conference 2012 in Washington, D.C., a diverse set of companies, government agencies and academic institutions shared their own experiences with adopting a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). The event, held May 15 and 16 at Washington’s Fairmont hotel, included information for leaders in software engineering, process and business management who are responsible […]

The University of Rochester Simon School of Business and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced winners of the first Watson academic case competition. The competition is a way to develop new ideas for harnessing IBM Watson technology to solve societal and business challenges while helping students advance technology and business skills for jobs of the future. […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced advancements to its SmartCloud Services and added customers and partners. IBM said it has seen rapid adoption of its SmartCloud portfolio as customers and partners move to the cloud. Big Blue manages massive amounts of data and client transactions in its cloud environments, including 1 million enterprise application users working […]

BOSTON €” FuseSource, the open-source integration company, announced the availability of new products that enable enterprises to use open-source technology for integration and messaging. The two products, now available following a global beta program, make it economically feasible to achieve real-time integration throughout the extended enterprise. This ability to achieve €œIntegration Everywhere€€”from the data center […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that AlphaTV, a television network in Greece, has overhauled its storage infrastructure with IBM high-performance, high-capacity tape solutions for greater efficiencies, faster access to video and the ability to store more video in dramatically less space. IBM helped transform the network€™s tape storage system, shrinking the size of its archive. The […]

IBM 726 (1952) In 1952, Big Blue introduced the IBM 726 as a new way to store computer-generated data. The system solved a key challenge of tape at the time—breakage—through the use of a “vacuum column” that created a buffer of loose tape. As a result, the relatively brittle magnetic tape could withstand the system’s […]