Darryl K. Taft

LAS VEGAS €” IBM announced that Sproxil, a provider of verification services, is using IBM technology to help the pharmaceutical industry reduce drug counterfeiting and enable consumers to verify the authenticity of prescriptions in seconds using their mobile phones. Using IBM visualization, analytics and cloud capabilities, Sproxil helps pharmaceutical manufacturers view and analyze real-time consumer […]

LAS VEGAS €“ IBM introduced a series of new business-integration software offerings to help enterprises leverage the collaborative capabilities of social media, mobile and cloud computing into their enterprise apps. The latest release of IBM€™s WebSphere application server, which is used by more than 100,000 customers, serves as the cornerstone for these new capabilities, IBM […]

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have entered into an agreement by which Microsoft will invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble€™s new digital and college book business, thereby settling its patent battle with the book seller, contributing to the creation of a new subsidiary and taking a 17.6 percent share of that business. The new […]

The Linux Foundation€™s Linux Foundation Labs has announced the availability of OpenMAMA 2.1, the open-source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API and the first neutral standard in data messaging for financial services. The project today is also welcoming three new Steering Committee participants: IBM, Tick42 (formerly known as DOT) and TS-Associates. Founding members for the project include […]

Microsoft has announced the release of an updated version of the Redis on Windows, the first deliverable from the company’s Microsoft Open Technologies subsidiary . Redis is an open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability. It is written in ANSI C. The development of Redis is sponsored by VMware. In a blog post, […]

Azul Systems, a provider of Java runtime scalability solutions, announced today that it has added support for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu support is a key new feature of Zing release 5.2, which will be generally available by the end of May. Zing is a 100 percent Java-compatible native Java virtual machine (JVM) optimized for […]

LAS VEGAS €” With innovation as the overall theme of its Impact 2012 conference here, IBM (NYSE:IBM) today unveiled its first-ever Mobile Foundation, a comprehensive portfolio of software and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments, including laptops, smartphones and tablets. Building on its recent acquisition of Worklight, the new […]

Access to All CS6 Components Creative Cloud membership enables users to download and install every new Adobe CS6 application announced April 23, along with two new HTML5 products, Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge preview. CS6 includes landmark releases of industry icons, such as Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe InDesign CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6, Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, […]

Borland Software has announced its new, customer-centric approach to transforming software delivery into a managed business process called Open Application Lifecycle Management or Open ALM. Borland also outlined its product strategy and unveiled Gauntlet, a new Open ALM product that provides real-time visibility and software quality metrics across the entire delivery life-cycle. Borlands Open ALM […]

Django, the open-source Web application framework that Pythons creator recently dubbed his top pick for Python developers, is nearing its 1.0 release, according to Adrian Holovaty, principal Django developer. Holovaty said the release would be at “the end of this summer.” In a keynote at the SciPy conference Aug. 17-18 in Pasadena, Calif., Guido van […]