Darryl K. Taft

Palm has released Palm webOS 1.1, which the company hopes will make the Palm Pre smartphone more appealing to businesses of all sizes, a Palm executive said. In a nod to businesses and enterprise users, Palm webOS 1.1 brings several additions to Palm’s support for Exchange ActiveSync, including remote wipe, PIN/password requirements, inactivity timeout, improved […]

PayPal has announced plans to open its payment platform to third-party developers with the release of new APIs that enable developers to embed the company’s secure global payment system into their applications and platforms. By opening up its payment platform, PayPal is enabling developers to create new ways to send and receive payments for services […]

WSO2, also known as the open-source SOA company, has announced the availability of the WSO2 Governance Registry 3.0 and the WSO2 Identity Server 2.0, two new installments in its family of open-source service-oriented architecture tools. Both new product versions are based on WSO2 Carbon, the company’s componentized SOA platform, which complies with the Open Services […]

Engine Yard, a provider of Ruby on Rails automation and management technologies, on July 21 announced the availability of its Engine Yard Cloud services platform and the general availability of Flex, a cloud services plan for production-level Ruby on Rails applications. According to the company: “Engine Yard Cloud is a platform for web teams and […]

Quest Software July 21 launched an open beta program for its tool for Oracle developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010. At the VSLive conference in February, Quest and Microsoft announced plans to integrate a Database Schema Provider for Oracle databases into VSTS 2010. Quest opened the beta for this technology on July […]

Microsoft plans to release Windows 7 to developers on Aug. 6, a Windows team spokesman said in a blog post. In a July 21 blog post, Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows communications manager at Microsoft, said, “Developers with MSDN [Microsoft Developer Network] Subscriptions will be able to download Windows 7 RTM [release to manufacturing] in English […]

Verizon will hold its first-ever Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference at the end of July with the goal of recruiting and empowering developers to build new mobile applications for Verizon’s 80 million customers. The VDC will be held in Silicon Valley on July 28 and will feature executives from Verizon, Research In Motion (RIM) and […]

Adobe Systems moved another step closer to open sourcing its Flash Platform. Or did it? Critics of Adobe have long called for the company to open-source Flash. While that is unlikely to happen any time soon, Adobe announced two new Adobe Flash Platform-based open-source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers on July 21, said […]

Microsoft has released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The software giant announced its move at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in San Jose, Calif., on July 20. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree, Microsoft […]

Borland Software has announced the release of Borland Silk 2009, a quality assurance solution aimed at testing applications for both Agile and traditional development teams. Borland Silk 2009 simplifies testing activities and increases the speed of test execution. It integrates with a customer’s existing test tools and frameworks. Silk 2009 includes new functionality that makes […]

Perhaps in a nod to European Union (EU) antitrust officials, Microsoft has made changes to the first-run experience in its Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser to allow users to more easily change their default browser selection. The software giant made the changes apparent in a blog post published by the Microsoft IE Team on July […]

Accenture has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the professional services unit of Nokia responsible for Symbian customer engineering and customer support. Gary Morgenstern, a spokesman for Accenture, said, “The strategic intent of this acquisition is to accelerate Accenture’s penetration into the embedded software development services market by acquiring expertise.” However, […]