Darryl K. Taft

The Eclipse Foundation is expected to announce on March 23 the first release of Swordfish, a next-generation enterprise service bus that provides the flexibility and extensibility required by enterprises to successfully deploy a service-oriented architecture strategy. Swordfish is based on the OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) standard and builds upon successful open-source projects, including Eclipse […]

Tasktop Technologies, creator of Eclipse Mylyn and its task-focused interface, announced on March 16 the release of Mylyn 3.1 and the “enterprise-ready” Tasktop Pro 1.4. “New features in Tasktop include the … ability to automate time tracking by synchronizing actual time spent working with JIRA, Bugzilla and other popular issue trackers, saving developers from needing […]

SpringSource on March 17 announced the release of SpringSource Tool Suite 2.0, a “comprehensive environment for building Spring-powered Java applications.” Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management for SpringSource, said, “STS 2.0 introduces new features and enhancements, including Project Creation Wizards, a rich forms-based Spring Configuration Editor, Spring Configuration Auto-Discovery, Quick Fixes and Quick Assist, […]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Touts 9 Significant New Features by Darryl K. Taft IE 8 Accelerators Accelerators are a form of selection-based search that enables a user to invoke an online service from any other page using only the mouse. According to Microsoft, Accelerators eliminate the need to copy and paste content between Web pages. […]

In an interesting turn of events, TomTom has countersued Microsoft for patent infringement. Microsoft sued TomTom in February claiming the GPS device maker infringed on Microsoft’s patents. TomTom, obviously thinking that turnabout is fair play, has in turned leveled its own lawsuit against the software giant. Indeed, TomTom is alleging in its suit, filed on […]

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft is continuing its courtship of students, some as young as high school age, to bring new blood into the ranks of .NET developers and Microsoft platform users. Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group, said Microsoft has used its MIX09 web development and design conference […]

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft will release its Internet Explorer 8 browser for download on March 19. Microsoft officials at the company’s MIX09 conference here said IE 8 will become available for download from the Internet Explorer 8 Website at 9 a.m. PDT on March 19. The timing of the release is to coincide with a keynote to […]

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft bolstered its appeal to Web developers and designers with a host of new and updated Web technologies announced at its MIX09 Web development conference. Experience was the word of the day in the opening keynote from both Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of […]

Serena Software: How to Successfully Migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Google Gmail Google Apps provide broad appeal to Serena officials looking to cut cost of maintaining the Exchange on-premise solution. No Title The first step Serena undertook was to prepare its staff for what was to come. This was done via an internal PR campaign. […]

Serena Software, a maker of application lifecycle management software and cloud computing solutions, has completed its migration from Microsoft Exchange to Google’s Gmail, and it took only 3 hours of dedicated work from two Serena IT workers to take one of Serena’s own internal applications to the cloud, the company said. eWEEK originally reported that […]

Intridea has announced the launch of Presently.com, the company’s new professional microblogging environment. Intridea, an agile software development and services firm that focuses on Web 2.0 solutions, said Presently.com is aimed at providing enterprise users with a productive and professional blogging experience. The new microblogging community provides features such as group messaging; the ability to […]

Facebook has announced Facebook Connect for the iPhone, which enables users to take their Facebook friends, identity and privacy with them wherever they go. Facebook announced the new capability on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2009 conference, noting that there are nine applications currently live in the iTunes app store, with more […]