Darryl K. Taft

To help with the tooling process, eXo, a maker of Java user experience and portal technologies, has announced the eXo Cloud IDE for Elastic Beanstalk, the new platform as a service from Amazon Web Services. The recently announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables Java developers to easily deploy and operate their applications on a scalable platform. […]

As part of its Technical Computing initiative, Microsoft has launched a new effort known as Technical Computing Labs (TC Labs) for developers on Microsoft Developer Network’s (MSDN) DevLabs. TC Labs provides developers with the opportunity to learn about Technical Computing technologies, get early versions of code and to provide feedback to Microsoft. TC Labs is […]

IBM just keeps on winning with the mainframe. Year after year, decade after decade, IBM keeps delivering new mainframe functionality and its customers keep on buying it. In fact, the mainframe led IBM’s Systems and Technology Group’s 21 percent increase in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2010, as mainframe sales rose nearly 70 percent. […]

Appcelerator, maker of tools for building mobile, desktop and tablet applications, and IDC have announced results of a joint survey showing that the onslaught of tablet systems has caused some developers to refocus their development efforts. Indeed, the joint Appcelerator-IDC survey of more than 2,200 developers around the world indicated that tablet interest spikes across […]

Micro Focus has announced a new COBOL product, Visual COBOL R3, which enables developers to extend COBOL to the latest platforms without having to rewrite code.Micro Focus Visual COBOL R3 brings COBOL to a range of deployment platforms. In addition to Windows, UNIX, Linux and .NET, COBOL applications can now be deployed to the JVM […]

As one of the core high-tech hubs in the nation, Seattle is making a splash as a hotspot for delivering more diversified technology experiences for the hotel industry. With companies such as Amazon and RealNetworks headquartered in Seattle, and Microsoft in nearby Redmond, Wash., the area has been a leading corridor of high-tech activity as […]

Mobile-application developers in North America rank AT&T as the best carrier for developers in the region, according to a recent report by Evans Data Corp. When asked to rank the capabilities that carriers offer to developers, those in North America ranked AT&T better than all competitors in four key areas: application distribution, tools, supported technologies […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta release of a new service known as AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which provides an easy way for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. In an interview with eWEEK, Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web Services, said the concept of the AWS Elastic […]

IBM saw fourth-quarter profits rise 9 percent on the strength of systems, software and growth markets. Announcing its fourth-quarter 2010 earnings on Jan. 18, IBM said fourth-quarter net income was $5.3 billion, compared with $4.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, an increase of 9 percent. Total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010-of […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a new logo for HTML5, the fast emerging Web standard for Web developers. On Jan. 18, the W3C introduced its new logo program for HTML5 to promote the technology and to encourage developers to use it. Despite concern by the W3C itself in recent months that some […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Apache Cassandra version 0.7, a second-generation, open-source distributed database. ASF officials said new features in Cassandra 0.7 include secondary indexes, which represent an expressive way to query data through node-local storage on the client side; large row support, up to two billion columns per row; and online schema […]

Black Duck Software, which sells solutions to help enterprises manage the use of open-source software, has announced it has acquired The Olliance Group, an independent open-source business and strategy consulting firm. Terms of the deal through which Black Duck acquired the privately held company were not disclosed. The acquisition-Black Duck’s fourth, and its third in […]