Darryl K. Taft

Google has introduced its new Google Chrome OS, an operating system project separate from Android and targeted at PCs-from, initially, small netbooks to full-size desktop systems, the company said. Just nine months after Google released its Chrome browser last September-which Google says has about 30 million users-it has announced a new operating system project, just […]

Developers in the Asia Pacific region are increasingly moving to cloud computing, according to a recent survey by Evans Data. More than one in four developers in the Asia Pacific region are using cloud services or expect to within the next six months, Evans Data officials said. According to the market research firm’s most recent […]

Microsoft has announced that it will be applying its Community Promise to its C# language and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), which in essence frees up developers from any patent or other claims Microsoft might exercise over the use of its intellectual property. In a July 6 blog post, Peter Galli, Microsoft’s open-source community manager, said […]

Serena Software, a maker of application lifecycle management and Web development solutions, has launched a program to lure customers from Borland Software, which is in the midst of being acquired by Micro Focus. Serena is inviting Borland customers to switch to Serena’s flagship ALM offering, Serena Dimensions CM, for the price of their current Borland […]

A new IBM-sponsored study shows that although the economy is driving midsize companies to work smarter and leaner, many are not actually decreasing their investments in IT, but maintaining current levels or increasing their IT spend to focus on strategic areas. And despite pressure to cut costs, these midsize companies are proceeding with IT plans […]

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have launched a new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, with an initial fund of $300 million. The former Netscape duo announced the new firm on July 6 and said it “will fund technology startups with investments ranging from $50,000 and $50 million, working with the strongest entrepreneurs with the smartest […]

CSC has announced an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell cloud-based Microsoft online services. Under the agreement, CSC will resell the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Services. The move is an expansion of a cloud services announcement CSC made in early June. This agreement is designed to help […]

Making good on its promise, Oracle has added an application lifecycle management solution to its developer tool set to enable teams of developers to work together more effectively. As part of its Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g announcement on July 1, the database giant announced Oracle TPC (Team Productivity Center), an ALM solution that sets Oracle […]

Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private clouds. In an interview with eWEEK, Simon Wardley, head of cloud strategy at Canonical, said the new services follow up on Canonical’s preview release of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud in April. The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) […]

Black Duck Software, a maker of software for analyzing open-source code, on June 30 announced results of a study that shows “increasing diversity in license types being chosen for open-source projects.” According to Black Duck there has been “increasing adoption of the GPLv3 license coupled with an overall 5 percent drop in the number of […]

Adobe Systems has shuttered its North American operations for the week of June 29 in a cost-cutting maneuver, according to published reports. The San Jose Mercury News has reported that Adobe shut down to cut costs as sales have declined in the recession. In addition, the Mercury News reported that Adobe earlier in the year […]

IBM announced June 3 the public availability of Milepost GCC, a first-of-its-kind open-source machine learning compiler. The Milepost GCC compiler “intelligently optimizes applications, translating directly into shorter software development times and bigger performance gains,” IBM officials said in a news release. IBM’s Research Lab in Haifa, Israel, worked with academia and private industry in the […]