Darryl K. Taft

Tablet devices will generate more Web traffic than smartphones by early 2013, according to the Adobe Digital Index. The report from Adobe Systems looks at how global Website traffic and engagement differ when the visitor is on a tablet, smartphone or PC. The report concluded that consumers find browsing Websites on tablets nearly as engaging […]

Adobe Systems (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced the release of a new version of its legacy development platform, ColdFusion 10, which features new HTML5 and REST support. With version 10, ColdFusion 10 now offers built-in support for HTML5 and helps boost performance using Tomcat integration and enhanced caching. Also, with the new hotfix installer and scheduler, […]

VMware, (NYSE: VMW), has announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, which features new automated deployment, enterprise open-source support and a SQLFire in-memory database to help developers build cloud-ready apps. VMware€™s vFabric Suite 5.1 introduces new capabilities that automate the deployment and management of complex applications on VMware cloud infrastructure. The introduction of an in-memory distributed SQL […]

Nvidia has announced a new Eclipse-based integrated development environment for GPU computing on Linux and Mac OS. The new Nvidia Nsight, Eclipse Edition is the world€™s first IDE for developing GPU-accelerated applications on Linux- and Mac OS-based systems, the company claims. Graphical processor maker Nvidia introduced its new technology on May 14 at the GPU […]

Xamarin, a provider of software development tools for building cross-platform apps, announced the availability of Xamarin Designer for Android. The Xamarin Designer for Android provides a drag-and-drop visual environment to create native user interfaces for Android apps from within Microsoft€™s Visual Studio or Xamarin€™s integrated development environment (IDE). The new product enables the editing of […]

Innovators The Innovators nomination category recognizes individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internet’s reach. The Internet Society honored Mitchell Baker, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Van Jacobson, Lawrence Landweber, Paul Mockapetris, Craig Newmark, Raymond Tomlinson, Linus Torvalds and Philip Zimmermann for their work advancing the global Internet. Mitchell […]

The Hall On April 23, 2012, the Internet Society inducted Internet pioneers and luminaries from around the world into its inaugural Internet Hall of Fame. Recognizing Internet leaders from nine different countries, including one Nobel Prize Winner, one Royal Knight and two Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, the Internet Hall of Fame is an annual […]

JetBrains, the maker of popular tools for software developers, has released dotPeek, a new, free .NET decompiler and assembly browser. JetBrains said the main idea behind dotPeek is to make high-quality decompiling available to everyone in the .NET community by providing it free of charge. The dotPeek solution comes with navigation and search features similar […]

Adobe announced the availability of some of the key creative technology it has been touting for months, including the Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Muse. Adobe initially announced Creative Cloud at its Adobe MAX event last October and later said the technology would be available May 11. Keeping true to its word, Adobe has made […]

Microsoft May 11 unveiled a major update to its Bing search engine, which the software giant claims will fundamentally transform the way users search the Web. With an eye toward social media, Microsoft also made sure this new version of its search engine offered users a way to integrate information from their Facebook and Twitter […]