Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced on July 16 second-quarter profits of $3.1 billion, up 12 percent over the same period in 2008, despite seeing a 13.3 percent dip in revenues. Mark Loughridge, IBM senior vice president and chief financial officer, said IBM’s margin improvements offset the lower revenue, so much so that IBM raised its expectations for the […]

Microsoft plans to open new Microsoft retail stores near rival Apple stores this fall, according to a key company executive. During a keynote speech at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2009 in New Orleans on July 15, Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer told the company’s partners that Microsoft will take advantage of customer […]

Microsoft has delivered Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3, the latest versions of the company’s rich Internet application and Web development and design platform, with the goal of more seamlessly integrating designer/developer workflow, among other benefits. Microsoft officially launched Silverlight 3 on July 10. However, Expression 3 will be available within the next 30 days, […]

25 Things You Might Not Know About IBM By Darryl K. Taft No Title IBM earned 4,186 U.S. patents in 2008, becoming the first firm to collect more than 4,000 U.S. patents in a single year. IBM’s 2008 patent issuances exceed those of Microsoft, HP, Oracle, Apple, EMC, Accenture and Google combined. No Title Since […]

A Look Inside Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Microsoft has announced Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 to help developers and designers build compelling rich Internet applications (RIAs). Microsoft’s Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 combine new capabilities with simplified packaging to deliver an RIA solution to challenge market leader Adobe Systems’ Flash Platform and related […]

Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Surface Partner Program to expand the ecosystem for partners and developers working with Microsoft Surface, the company’s multitouch, multiuser computer. Announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans, the Microsoft Surface Partner Program is an extension of the Microsoft Partner Network and the Microsoft QuickStart Website. Under […]

Adobe Systems announced the public beta releases of Adobe ColdFusion 9 and a new product known as ColdFusion Builder. ColdFusion 9 is the soon-to-be generally released latest version of Adobe’s development technology for building dynamic Websites and Internet applications. Adam Lehman, product manager for ColdFusion, said it increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise environments […]

According to published reports, Mark Lucovsky, an engineering director at Google, has left the search giant for a new position at VMware. Despite having been hard at work over the last several years helping Google develop and deliver on its Google APIs strategy, Lucovsky is perhaps best known as the man who allegedly made Microsoft […]

Adobe Beefs Up ColdFusion with New IDE and Much More No Title Adobe ColdFusion Builder introspects CFML to help build applications faster with fewer errors No Title Adobe ColdFusion Builder support code insight for HTML/CSS/DOM in addition to CFML No Title Enabling Flash remoting in the Adobe ColdFusion 9 administrator No Title Adobe ColdFusion 9 […]

MontaVista Software has celebrated its tenth year in business as a provider of embedded Linux solutions. MontaVista officials announced the company’s 10-year anniversary on July 13. Company founder and Chief Technology Officer Jim Ready started MontaVista in 1999 with the mission to bring the full advantage of open-source Linux to the embedded market. Since then […]

Google announced its Chrome operating system on July 7 and developers have been weighing in on what it means for the developer ranks ever since the company said it was building an OS based on its Chrome browser. Developer reaction has ranged from excitement over Google adding energy to delivering Google for the masses, to […]

IBM’s software is the lifeblood of its Smarter Planet initiative to add a layer of intelligence to the basic processes that run today’s world, including roads, water and power, among other things. Indeed, Big Blue’s Smarter Planet initiative has deep roots in IBM Software Group. In fact, you cannot even talk about the IBM Smarter […]