Darryl K. Taft

Google has demonstrated Google Wave, a new mode of communication out of the team that brought Google Maps to the world. Google Wave is a combination of e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing and a lot more. Google officials demonstrated the upcoming Google Wave technology at the Google I/O developer conference on May 28. In a […]

Google opened its annual developer conference, Google I/O, in San Francisco on May 27 with a focus on the maturity of the Web platform for creating rich, compelling enterprise and mobile applications. Indeed, Google officials highlighted the new functionality in HTML 5 as a key building block for the future of the Web platform that […]

Microsoft has announced the formation of the Social Enterprise Alliance, a strategic collaboration between Microsoft and two of its Gold Certified Partners-Telligent Systems and SpeakTech-to deliver an integrated social networking solution for customers in the manufacturing and consumer goods sectors. Microsoft officials said the alliance will launch the Social Enterprise Solution, which includes platform and […]

Microsoft has announced plans to extend the video service of its Zune music player to Xbox LIVE internationally this fall. In addition, Microsoft confirmed that the next generation of the Zune portable media player, Zune HD, will be available this fall. These moves will not only bring the Zune brand to more than 17 million […]

Adobe has announced the preview release of Acrobat.com Presentations, a new online service that enables users to easily create and collaborate on presentations. Adobe officials said Adobe.com Presentations builds on the Acrobat.com set of hosted services, including Adobe Buzzword and Adobe ConnectNow, by making it easy for virtually anyone to create professional-looking presentations online. The […]

19 Reasons Why Microsoft Is Huge with Developers (and 1 Reason Why Not) 1. Developers are in Microsofts DNA: Company Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates sought early on to focus on developers. In a statement at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in summer 2008, Gates said, “I started out as a developer and that’s what I remain […]

Microsoft demonstrated the touch capabilities of its Windows 7 operating system and introduced a new suite of multi-touch applications at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference on May 27. In a blog post on the demonstration, Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows communication manager at Microsoft, noted that the touch demonstration comes a year […]

Borland Software has announced the release of a new requirements definition tool known as TeamDefine. Borland officials said TeamDefine is a simulation tool that enables business analysts to easily translate initial software project concepts into working models through storyboards and interactive simulations. Team members can then try these simulations to gain true understanding of the […]

Intel has begun shipping its Intel Parallel Studio, a tool set designed to help Windows developers write parallel computing applications. James Reinders, director of Intel Software Development Products, said the studio is an on-ramp to parallelism for C/C++ developers using Microsoft Visual Studio. Intel Parallel Studio has three primary components, Intel Parallel Composer, Intel Parallel […]

Market research company Gartner has ranked IBM as the market share leader in the portal products and user interaction tools enterprise software segment for 2008. The ranking is based on 2008 revenue for portal software. IBM officials on May 22 said growth in IBM’s health care client engagements contributed to its portal success. Indeed, “More […]

Microsoft has declined the European Commission’s offer to hold a hearing on antitrust matters concerning its browser bundling because of unfortunate scheduling that will leave senior decision makers absent from the proceedings. In a May 21 blog post, Microsoft Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner spells out how the schedule that the European […]

Microsoft and HP have renewed a patent cross-license agreement to further the development of each company’s research and development efforts and expand technological innovation based in each company’s respective intellectual property. The patent cross-license renewal represents the third such agreement between the two companies. And though the agreement covers a broad range of products and […]