Darryl K. Taft

Toptal, a company that provides freelance software engineers and designers for hire, has announced its acquisition of Skillbridge, an online platform for elite business freelancers, in a move aimed at creating a scalable network for top freelance developers, designers, and business professionals. According to Toptal officials, the combined entity will use Toptal’s technology platform to […]

IBM has released its new z/OS Platform for Apache Spark to help give data scientists and developers real-time, secure access to mainframe data. The new offering makes it easier and faster for users to access and analyze data in-place on the IBM z Systems mainframe to deliver real-time insights, IBM said. Last year, IBM announced […]

SmartBear Software, a provider of software quality tools for developers building mobile, Web, Internet of Things (IoT) and other connected apps, has announced a new developer focused test automation tool known as TestLeft. The tool enables developers working in an Agile and continuous delivery environment to create tests within integrated development environments (IDEs), which helps […]

When the Windows 10 Anniversary Update ships this summer, it will do so with some innovative pen and ink technology from Adobe Systems. At its Build 2016 conference last week, Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows and Devices Group, said with Windows Ink, you can write on your device as you do on paper, […]

IBM has developed a new approach to storage known as cognitive storage, where computers can be taught to learn the difference between high value and low value data. In essence, the concept helps computers to learn what to remember and what to forget, IBM said. In a blog post from today as well as a […]

IBM’s planned acquisition of Salesforce.com consulting partner Bluewolf Group is all about enabling digital transformation in the Salesforce.com ecosystem. IBM last week announced plans to acquire Bluewolf, which has been a Salesforce consulting partner for more than a decade. This will bring together Bluewolf’s knowledge of the Salesforce world including cloud services and consulting with […]

IBM this week announced that it has distilled its cloud application development practices into a “method” that is partially responsible for the company being named a market leader in cloud application development and transformation by an independent technology market research firm. Big Blue introduced its Bluemix Garage Method, a set of best practices built to […]

How Once Cutting-Edge Tech Evolved Into ‘Digital ‘Dinosaurs’ This slide show looks at “extinct” technologies that once dominated our world and how they’ve evolved into what we use in our current day-to-day activities. Extinct: Dial-Up Modems —> Ethernet/Broadband —> WiFi USB Drive —> Flash/Cloud Storage Technology” width=”696″ height=”464″ /> Outside of the symbol for “Save” […]

SAN FRANCISCO — In the opening day keynote of its Build 2016 conference here, Microsoft used the terms “cognitive” and “intelligence” liberally to signal a new direction for the company. Although the exact wording of the company’s goals were a bit different, the tone and sentiment sounded a lot like what IBM Chairman, CEO and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—In perhaps the biggest developer news of the day at its Build 2016 conference here, Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing its recently acquired Xamarin software development kit, runtime, libraries and command line tools as part of the .NET Foundation in the coming months. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise Group, […]