Darryl K. Taft

For the first time, Microsoft has made the list of the top 20 contributors to the Linux kernel, the operating system that the company once rallied against, according to The Linux Foundation‘s annual development report. The foundation’s latest report, “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing […]

The community supporting the popular Joomla open-source content management system announced that it has been downloaded more than 30 million times. The community attributes the continued growth in the number of individuals, companies and organizations using the CMS to an aggressive development road map that included the release of Joomla 1.7 in July 2011. The […]

REDMOND, Wash. €” What do you get when you put a group of computer language geeks in one room and ask them about programming? Well, it seems one thing is a general complaint about one of the most popular languages in use today: JavaScript. At the Lang.Next conference here, a panel of experts discussed everything […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new software to provide clients with a better way to handle the data deluge and speed up business processes, making it easier for decision makers to gain insights from data. The new software is based on innovations from IBM labs that continuously access, compress and analyze data, freeing up IT […]

GG: A Build Tool for Go in Go Tool GG is a builder for the Go language. It makes it easy to build your Go files into an executable file. It’s released under the terms of the BSD License. GG is not as powerful as make utility. But it lets you build a simple file […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that its Apache Sqoop big data tool has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level project (TLP). Sqoop is designed to efficiently transfer bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured data stores such as relational databases. Apache Sqoop allows the import of data from external data stores […]

Yahoo has announced the availability of Mojito, an open-source technology that for the first time will enable developers to deliver rich and personalized digital media experiences to multiple consumer devices and platforms with one set of code. Yahoo officials said currently developers do not have a method for delivering high quality digital media experiences to […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache Rave, the organization’s open-source mashup engine, has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level project (TLP). Apache Rave is an open-source software mashup platform that enables developers to build and engage with an array of social network technologies, such as OpenSocial, Activity Streams and W3C […]

IBM has had a busy week with academia, announcing partnerships with both Rice University and Rutgers University to advance supercomputing at their institutions and in their home states of Texas and New Jersey, respectively. On March 30, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Rice University announced a partnership to build the first IBM Blue Gene supercomputer in […]

Google has released its Chrome 18 browser with new hardware-accelerated Canvas rendering. In a blog post, Karen Grunberg of the Google Chrome team said Chrome 18 has been released to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Chrome 18 also features several security enhancements and bug fixes. In a March 28 post […]