Darryl K. Taft

In a developer-focused event known as a Silverlight Firestarter, Microsoft laid out the roadmap for Silverlight 5, the next version of the company’s rich Internet application technology. At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in October, the company indicated that it might be changing the focus of Silverlight. However, in a move to help set its […]

Engine Yard, a cloud computing platform-as-a-service provider for Ruby on Rails, has announced a new effort to support innovative open source developers, called the Engine Yard Open Source Software Community Grant program. This new program aims to help key projects and OSS contributors gain traction while growing their user base and contributor base, and helping […]

BARCELONA, Spain-At the HP Software Universe 2010 conference here, Tasktop Technologies, creator of the popular Eclipse Mylyn project and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, announced Tasktop Enterprise 1.8, a new version of its ALM integration suite. Tasktop Enterprise helps to integrate Agile ALM partner offerings, open-source solutions and the […]

BARCELONA, Spain – As HP places its stake deeper into the software business with its new Application Lifecycle management (ALM) 11 offering, the company also is making a stronger play with its services component, branching into the cloud and beefing up its security solutions. HP announced its new ALM 11 software suite at the HP […]

BARCELONA, Spain-Hewlett-Packard is making a serious, concentrated push into the software business-perhaps its most serious to date-by capitalizing on its strengths while reaching out to all players in the software development life cycle. At its HP Universe conference here, the systems, software and services company launched its latest software suite, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) 11, […]

Microsoft Office 2010 Top 10 Holiday Tips and Tricks by Darryl K. Taft Customize Holiday Greetings Use photo editing tools in Word 2010 or Publisher 2010 to customize your own holiday newsletters, greeting cards or party invitation templates from Office.com. Why Dont You Slide? Using PowerPoint 2010 with video and photos, create a slide presentation […]

Opera Software has released the first beta of Opera 11, with support for tab stacking. In a Nov. 23 announcement, Opera introduced tab stacking, a better way to organize your open tabs. Traditionally, tabs were opened side-by-side, but now Opera users can stack their tabs, grouping them by site or by theme. Tab stacking reduces […]

Adobe Systems has announced the appointment of a new vice president for government affairs and public policy to bolster its presence in the nation’s capital. In a Nov. 22 announcement, Adobe named Jace Johnson as its vice president for government affairs and public policy. Johnson joins Adobe with both technology industry experience and a background […]

Nvidia, maker of GPU technology and tools for developers, has announced the production release of CUDA Toolkit 3.2, which provides performance increases, new math libraries and advanced cluster management features for developers creating next-generation GPU-accelerated applications. The CUDA Toolkit includes all the tools, libraries and documentation developers need to build CUDA C/C++ applications, and is […]

IBMs Six Principles for Successful Enterprise IT Transformation by Darryl K. Taft IBMs Ongoing Transformation Journey IBM has been on a journey to transform its business since 2003. In the last four years, the company has delivered more than $5 billion in productivity improvements, with an additional $8 billion in savings anticipated by 2015. But […]

At the Supercomputing 2010 conference, IBM released details of a new storage architecture design that can double analytics processing speed. Announced on Nov. 19 at the conference in New Orleans, the new architecture created by IBM researchers can convert terabytes of pure information into actionable insights twice as fast as previously possible. IBM said the […]

Microsoft made a series of high-performance computing (HPC) announcements at the Supercomputing 2010 conference, including implementing an innovative medical search tool available on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform. At Supercomputing 2010, which ran Nov. 13-19, Microsoft announced the release of the National Center for Biotechnology Information Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, also known as […]