Darryl K. Taft

In its largest philanthropic effort ever, IBM has selected 33 cities worldwide to receive IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grants during 2012. Launched in 2011, this three-year, 100-city $50 million program€”IBM’s single-largest philanthropic initiative€”funds in-person engagements staffed by teams of top IBM experts, who study and then make detailed recommendations addressing locally important urban issues. The […]

Red Hat has announced the downloadable public beta version of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Last year, Red Hat introduced an early access program for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6. The release of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 reflects the culmination of Red Hat€™s efforts to facilitate the adoption of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 6 technologies, […]

Research in Motion has announced that its BlackBerry 10 Jam for developers will run in early May. In a March 15 entry on the BlackBerry DevBlog, RIM announced that it would host BlackBerry 10 Jam on May 1-3 as a concurrent conference to BlackBerry World, the largest annual gathering for the BlackBerry ecosystem. BlackBerry 10 […]

VMware announced that it has delivered all the key components of the Spring 3.1 release train. VMware, a leading provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure, announced March 14 that all the major extensions to the Spring Framework are now compatible with Spring 3.1, the latest version of the popular open-source Java development framework. VMware€™s SpringSource […]

Oracle has announced the general availability of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for Oracle Linux. Announced on March 13, Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 includes performance and scalability enhancements that allowed Oracle to achieve record database benchmark results, the company said. Based on the 3.0.16 mainline kernel, Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 also includes […]

The judge overseeing the Oracle vs. Google patent-infringement case has set a trial date of April 16 to begin trying the case€”which is expected to take about eight weeks to complete. On March 13, U.S. District Judge William Alsup entered an order setting April 16, 2012, as the definitive trial date for Oracle vs. Google […]

Shunra Software, a provider of network virtualization and application performance solutions, has announced a joint offering with SOASTA, a provider of cloud-based performance and functional testing that focuses on mobile application testing. The joint offering provides an integrated functional and performance test platform for mobile applications, and includes Shunra€™s vCat and NetworkCatcher Express Mobile products […]

appMobi has announced the release of jqMobi 1.0, the initial generally available version of its new open-source HTML5 mobile framework for building apps for mobile devices. appMobi originally created and open sourced jqMobi to remedy the poor cross-platform performance of JavaScript frameworks on iOS and Android, the company said. Frameworks like jqMobi speed the development […]

When a programmer starts looking at mobile application development, one of the first questions that comes to mind is whether to go native versus Web technology. Although Objective-C is key for building native iOS apps, Java for Android and BlackBerry, and C# and Visual Studio tools for Windows Phone, the opportunity to build mobile apps […]

Netbiscuits, a provider of solutions for building Web apps for mobile devices, has announced Tactile, its new design and development framework that taps Web standards to enable the creation and delivery of engaging mobile Web experiences. Introduced at the SXSW 2012 conference, Netbiscuits Tactile uses the Netbiscuits software as a service (SaaS) cloud-based platform to […]