Darryl K. Taft

Opera Software has released the first alpha of Opera 11, the next version of the company’s desktop Web browser. At its recent “Up North Web” event for press and analysts in Oslo, Norway, Opera previewed Opera 11 and announced that it will support extensions. The company on Oct. 21 released the initial version of the […]

IBM has announced it acquisition of Clarity Systems, a financial governance software provider, and Big Blue also announced the close of OpenPages, a maker of software that helps companies more easily identify and manage risk and compliance activities across the enterprise through a single management system. Both moves expand IBM’s business analytics portfolio to drive […]

CHICAGO-While the rest of the enterprise Java world, including Java steward Oracle, sort of plods along, VMware’s SpringSource division is making moves that legitimize its claims of becoming the de facto standard for enterprise Java development. SpringSource was able to entice mega Java backer Google to attend its annual developer event here, and to be […]

Ray Ozzie has announced his plans to leave Microsoft and it is not the end of the world as we know it. In fact, in the scheme of things in the day-to-day activities of the company, Ozzie’s departure means very little. Why? Because, despite all that he has done behind the scenes to bring muster […]

Adobe announced its new Adobe Acrobat X software family of products Oct. 18, including Acrobat X, Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and new document exchange services at Acrobat.com. The new Acrobat X software, pronounced “Acrobat 10,” empowers professionals to innovate and create higher quality content, driving tighter collaboration and productivity across teams, said Rick […]

IBM announced third-quarter 2010 net income of $3.6 billion, compared with $3.2 billion for the third quarter of 2009, an increase of 12 percent driven by significant increases in systems and technology sales and IBM services as well as a boost in growth markets. Total revenues for the third quarter of 2010 of $24.3 billion […]

Adobe Acrobat X: 10 Reasons to Move to It Now by Darryl K. Taft Guided Actions Whether you are optimizing PDF files to be posted online, creating accessible documents or ensuring that PDF files comply with one of several industry standards, you can now automate routine, multistep tasks in a guided Action. Create, manage and […]

Intel has launched a new software development kit for .NET applications to its AppUp developer program. The new .NET SDK joins Intel’s support for other platforms as part of AppUp. Intel’s AppUp program initially launched with support for C/C++ applications, and Intel later launched support for AIR applications in August. “The addition of .NET continues […]

Mozilla has named Gary Kovacs, a former executive at Sybase and Adobe, as its new CEO. In an Oct. 14 blog post, Mitchell Baker, chair of Mozilla, said Kovacs brings the right blend of skills to the job and complimented the search team for finding him for the role, particularly as Mozilla looks ahead to […]

JetBrains has delivered a new language-specific integrated development environment for Python and Django developers, known as PyCharm 1.0. JetBrains, the maker of productivity-enhancing development tools such as IntelliJ IDEA, adds a new language-specific IDE to its family of lightweight language-specific IDEs that JetBrains started delivering in 2008 with RubyMine, a Ruby on Rails IDE. Other […]

Opera Software shared some details of the next version of its browser, Opera 11, noting that the browser will support extensions. At an Oct. 14 company press event in Oslo, known as “Up North Web,” Opera officials discussed the future of the Web and shed light on where they hope to see Opera in that […]

With an emerging need for programs that take advantage of today’s multicore and parallel systems, the University of Illinois has come up with an effort to deliver a parallel version of the Java language. Indeed, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has launched a project to deliver a Deterministic Parallel Java (DPJ) implementation under funding […]