Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of Skype for Windows Phone, the app the company announced in beta at the Mobile World Congress in February. The new Skype for Windows Phone app is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace, or users can get it directly from their Windows Phone. €œWith Skype on your Windows Phone, […]

Adobe Systems unveiled its Adobe Creative Suite 6 product line along with its Adobe Creative Cloud cloud-based subscription service for creative professionals. Adobe CS6 is a toolkit for design, Web and video professionals that features new releases of 14 Adobe applications and four Creative Suites€”Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite […]

Facebook announced a deal with Microsoft where, for $550 million, the social networking giant will acquire a portion of the patents Microsoft recently acquired from AOL. Microsoft and Facebook announced a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will assign to Facebook the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio it recently agreed to acquire […]

Adobe Systems has launched Adobe Creative Cloud, a new way of providing tools and services for creative professionals. The Adobe Creative Cloud is a subscription-based offering that is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work. The technology is focused on the new release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, which features new design, […]

Functional Testing Mobile applications present new challenges for quality assurance (QA) teams. They must not only validate the functionality of their mobile applications but also adapt existing test processes for mobile-based execution, ensure consistent behavior across many environments and get test results faster. QA teams often find that manual testing is too cumbersome because mobile […]

Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of $17.41 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, a 6 percent increase from the prior year period. However, net income slipped 2.4 percent for the quarter, as the same quarter in 2011 enjoyed the boost of a tax settlement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that raised profits. Net […]

Appcelerator, a mobile development platform provider, recently announced the launch of Titanium 2.0, which features new Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) and support for HTML5 mobile Web apps. Appcelerator simplifies the process of integrating cloud services into mobile apps€”enabling not only Titanium developers but any native or mobile Web developer to quickly create, configure and deploy […]

Amazon Web Services has launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for customers to find, compare and begin using the software and technical services they need to build products and run their businesses on the AWS cloud. AWS officials said AWS Marketplace users can use 1-Click deployment to quickly launch preconfigured software […]

A group representing IBM employee interests has called for pickets at IBM locations on April 24 to protest recent job cuts. The Alliance@IBM, which touts itself as an IBM employees€™ union, said its members and supporters will be holding informational pickets at various IBM locations around the country to call attention to the IBM job […]

NEW YORK €“ Amazon Web Services kicked off its cloud computing service in 2006 and has since taken a commanding lead in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) space by adding more and more services and amassing a number of customers. What’s more, AWS has no intention of slowing down as the cloud is poised […]