Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced the opening of a new server remanufacturing center in China to extend the life of older IT equipment that otherwise would go into landfills. The new center, located in Shenzhen, will help reduce the impact of e-waste on the environment. IBM will also buy back select IBM Power Systems from clients as they […]

Compuware has released a study that shows that many CIOS are ill-prepared to address the mainframe developer shortage. On March 1, Compuware released the results of a second independent research study conducted by the Vanson Bourne research firm into mainframe use in the enterprise. Key findings reveal that a stagnant mainframe development environment impacts developer […]

Shunra Software, a provider of network-virtualization and application-performance engineering solutions, today announced integration with Hewlett-Packard load-testing and performance technologies in support of the company€™s mobile performance platform. Shunra announced its ability to capture real-world mobile network conditions and virtualize those dynamic conditions in a load-test environment powered by HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center. Moreover, […]

According to an IBM employee organization, reports and independent sources, IBM has laid off more than 1,000 employees with some estimates going as high as 1.200 or more in the U.S. and Canada. Alliance@IBM, the official national site for the IBM Employee€™s Union CWA Local 1701, reports that since Feb. 27, at least 1,202 IBM […]

VMware has introduced Spring Hadoop, a new project that will make it easier for enterprise Java developers to use the familiar Spring Framework to build solutions around the Apache Hadoop platform. Spring Hadoop is the latest addition to the Spring Data family of projects and integrates the Spring Framework and the Apache Hadoop platform. Spring […]

The Mozilla Marketplace is open for business. Well, it€™s at least open for app submissions from developers. In a Feb. 28 blog post, Joe Stagner, senior program manager for development technologies and community at Mozilla, said developers using HTML, CSS and JavaScript can develop Web-based apps for using one code base for all popular devices. […]

The worldwide server market ended 2011 with mixed results, as worldwide revenue in this space declined 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 while shipments increased 4.5 percent, according to Gartner. For the year, worldwide server revenue grew 7.9 percent, and server shipments increased 7 percent, with IBM taking the revenue crown and HP […]

At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Adobe Systems announced that Adobe Photoshop Touch is now available for iPad 2, via the iTunes App Store. Adobe Photoshop Touch offers core Photoshop features, as well as new capabilities for creating and sharing in an app custom-built for tablets. The app is a central component […]

Facebook has launched an effort to diminish mobile browser fragmentation and improve the mobile Web. At the Mobile World Congress, Facebook joined forces with more than 30 other companies to form the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community Group. In a blog post about the effort, Douglas Purdy, director of developer relations at Facebook said: […]

At both the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Annual Leadership Summit and Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems announced a fully integrated video technology platform, code-named Project Primetime, to enable smooth, TV-like experiences for ad-supported videos across Web-connected devices. This new platform delivers premium video and ad content consistently across all major platforms, including Apple iOS, Google […]