Darryl K. Taft

This is a saga about IBM’s Bluemix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Big Blue’s popular Cloud Foundry-based cloud application development program that started as a glimmer in a few IBM executives’ cloud-glazed eyes and now boasts more than one million developers and attracts nearly 20,000 new ones to the platform each week, IBM said. According to Dr. Angel […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft announced that it will be delivering a new version of Windows 10, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer, as the operating system has been among the most widely adopted operating systems in Microsoft history. Showing off new features of the upcoming platform at the Microsoft Build 2016 conference here, Microsoft […]

On Day One of its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft introduced a slew of new features, services and technologies including new innovations for Windows 10, new cognitive technology and new capabilities to help developers create smarter, more realistic games, among other things. Both Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows […]

IBM’s World Community Grid has launched the “Help Stop TB” project, an effort to stamp out tuberculosis, led by the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. The aim of the project is to help science better understand the TB bacterium, so that more effective treatments can be developed. Tuberculosis is caused by infection from […]

LAS VEGAS—Among the many moves Adobe made here this week at Adobe Summit 2016, the company’s annual digital marketing conference, was advancing its Adobe Target personalization solution. The new Adobe Target features new data science enhancements, new algorithms to personalize content, new mobile capabilities, and enhanced integration between Adobe Target and Adobe Analytics, among other […]

LAS VEGAS—Adobe announced an expansion of its global partner program, adding major new partners and enhancing the Adobe Exchange program. At its Adobe Summit 2016 event here, Adobe boasted that its partner ecosystem now includes more than 3,000 agencies, system integrators and technology partners, as well as hundreds of thousands of developers. Its Partner Day, […]

Adobe Summit 2016: Catching the ‘Experience Business’ Wave Adobe execs discussed the “experience business” wave, enhancements to Adobe Marketing Cloud and the new Adobe Marketing Cloud Device Co-op. Adobe’s Focus Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO, kicks off Adobe Summit 2016, the company’s annual digital marketing conference. He detailed its three areas of focus: digital media, […]

How IoT, Cloud Create Actionable Insights for Microsoft Customers We look at six Microsoft customers and how connecting devices and assets they already had with IoT and the cloud unlock new actionable insights from their data. Data Analytics Bring Safety, Efficiency to Oil and Gas Rockwell Automation, which specializes in industrial automation and information technologies, […]

IBM today announced that Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a non-profit organization that breeds, trains and places service dogs with the blind and visually impaired, has adopted the IBM Cloud and is using the power of Watson to help produce dogs fit to serve as guide dogs. Guiding Eyes for the Blind, one of the […]

LAS VEGAS—At its Adobe Summit digital marketing conference here, Adobe introduced its Adobe Marketing Cloud Device Co-op, a network that will enable companies to work together to better identify consumers across digital touch points, including smartphones, tablets, desktops, laptops and other devices. While seemingly a brilliant idea, particularly to marketers, the announcement set off immediate […]