Darryl K. Taft

Google has updated some of its core tools for developers, including Google Web Toolkit and Google Plugin for Eclipse, and added new APIs for Google App Engine. In a Feb. 14 blog post, Chris Ramsdale of the Google Developer Tools team said GPE (Google Plugin for Eclipse) and GWT 2.2 (Google Web Toolkit 2.2) are […]

At the Mobile World Congress conference for everything mobile, Adobe Systems announced accelerated momentum for its Flash Platform technology on mobile devices. Indeed, at MWC in Barcelona, Spain, Adobe officials said developers and content publishers can now deploy Adobe AIR applications to the more than 84 million smartphones and tablets running Android and iOS. Thousands […]

Nokia’s move to adopt Microsoft’s Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy has far-reaching implications for developers. In a Feb. 11 blog post describing the impact of the deal on Microsoft developers, Matt Bencke, a general manager at Microsoft, said, “I’m incredibly excited about its long-term potential and how it could enable us to innovate, […]

Opera Software announced that there are more than 100 million users of its mobile browser technology. In a press release, Opera said more than 100 million people use an Opera browser each month on their mobile phones. According to Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web report, released Feb. 9, 90.4 million people use Opera […]

Microsoft has announced the availability of the Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 9. The release candidate, known as IE9 RC, is available at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 40 languages, said Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, in a Feb. 10 blog post. Hachamovitch said with IE9 RC, Microsoft has incorporated more than 17,000 […]

Microsoft has promoted Senior Vice President Satya Nadella to president of the company’s Server and Tools Business, replacing Bob Muglia, who announced plans to resign in January 2011. As president of the Server and Tools Business, Nadella will oversee the overall strategy, engineering, marketing and product development for Microsoft’s server, tools and cloud platform efforts, […]

A team of savvy Java developers is working to fork Android to have a safe and open implementation of the Android stack in case Oracle prevails in its litigation against Google for allegedly infringing Oracle’s Java patents in the creation of Android. In a project known as IcedRobot, Mario Torre, a software developer at JPMorgan […]

Nuxeo, a provider of open-source enterprise content management (ECM) software, has announced it is contributing its Java Content Repository technology (Nuxeo Core) to the Eclipse Foundation. The “Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository” project, or ECR, if approved, will build on the initial contribution to deliver a modular, versatile and full-featured Content Repository technology, leveraging Content Management […]

Two giants of the patent world have come together to do a patent deal-IBM and Samsung. IBM and Samsung Electronics announced a patent cross-license agreement, under which the companies will license their respective patent portfolios to each other. Specific terms and conditions of the agreement, which was announced Feb. 8, were not disclosed. IBM and […]

IBM has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory will use IBM’s next-generation Blue Gene supercomputer to enable advances in areas such as designing ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understanding global climate change and exploring the evolution of our universe. The 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, named “Mira,” will be operational in 2012 […]

Brad Lovering, a former Microsoft Technical Fellow, will launch a new Seattle office for Splunk. Lovering, who left Microsoft in October 2010, will open the new Splunk office on Feb. 8 to focus on research and development for the San Francisco-based operational intelligence software maker, according to a report initially in the All About Microsoft […]

The Debian Project has announced the availability of Debian 6.0, the latest stable version of the Debian Linux distribution. Debian 6.0, code-named Squeeze, has been in development for 24 months, project officials said. The free operating system comes in two flavors: Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which has been introduced with this version as a […]