Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft announced that over the next few days its Windows Phone Marketplace will open in 13 new countries, with additional expansion in the existing marketplace in China. The new countries in which Windows Phone marketplace will open are Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela. These 13 […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the complete 1000 Genomes Project is now available on AWS as a publically available data set. AWS and NIH announced the news at the White House Big Data Summit on March 29. The announcement makes the largest collection of human genetics […]

Atlassian, a provider of collaboration software for product teams, announced Bamboo 4, the latest release of its continuous integration and delivery server. Bamboo 4 enables software developers to automatically test code on development branches before merging with the main code line. It provides automatic plan branching and merging for distributed version control systems (DVCS) like […]

Adobe Systems has launched Adobe Flash 11.2 and AIR 3.2 with premium features for gaming. In a March 27 blog post, Emmy Huang, director of product management for Gaming Solutions at Adobe, said the premium features for gaming with Flash Player 11.2 will enable game developers to publish advanced games with console-quality experiences to Flash […]

Google has released version 1.0 of its Go programming language. Google initially introduced Go as an “experimental language” in 2009 and has now come to a 1.0 release of the technology. At the time of its introduction, Google described Go as a language that attempts to combine the development speed of working in a dynamic […]

Microsoft has opened the kimono a bit more on its ASP.NET technology in releasing the source code for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages, also known as Razor. In the past, Microsoft made the source code for ASP.NET MVC available under an open-source license. Now, the company has open-sourced another hearty chunk of its […]

Microsoft announced that the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update is now available for download. The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update was made available on March 26. The tools are the final version of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) Microsoft released last month, and they enable Windows Phone developers to build apps that work well on […]

Microsoft shared news on the future of its Visual Studio tools and also announced a new build service for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) at conferences in Las Vegas. At DevConnections, Jason Zander, corporate vice president, Visual Studio, shared some insight into the road map for Visual Studio Ultimate. Zander said Visual Studio Ultimate is […]

RESTON, Va. €” Tasktop Technologies, creators of Eclipse Mylyn and maker of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced Sync Studio, an extension of the company€™s Task Federation platform. Announced at the EclipseCon 2012 conference here, Sync Studio is designed to make it easier for enterprises to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. […]

A new survey of the European automotive industry indicated widespread use of free and open-source software (FOSS) but pointed to gaps in the FOSS governance and software asset management processes across software supply chains. The survey, conducted by European-based management consultancy BearingPoint and underwritten by Black Duck Software, a provider of open-source governance solutions, found […]