Darryl K. Taft

LONDON—Symbian is making a slew of moves to bolster its developer ecosystem and provide further support for consumers and licensees of its mobile smart-phone technology. On the opening day of its Symbian Smartphone Show here Oct. 16, Symbian announced its ongoing efforts to make developing easier and more economically viable for developers worldwide. The London-based […]

LONDON—Symbian has introduced new features to its smart-phone operating system that it claims will impact the future of devices and services. At the Symbian Smartphone Show here Oct. 16, the company announced what officials referred to as “groundbreaking” technologies. The two new technologies, ScreenPlay and FreeWay, will power the future of mobile computing, said Symbian […]

LONDON—Symbian is the leading developer of smart phone operating systems and is intent on keeping its lead. A key part of maintaining that lead falls under the purview of David Wood, executive vice president of research at the company, based here. Wood sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft at the Symbian Smartphone […]

Microsoft is integrating its Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Atlassian Systems Confluence, the companys popular enterprise wiki. Users of SharePoint and Confluence will be able to access and share content across these two popular technologies, Jeffrey Walker, president of Atlassian, said while announcing the move Oct. 17 at the OReilly Web 2.0 Summit in San […]

LONDON—Nokia is broadening the reach of its mobile development platform with support for traditional as well as emerging technologies. At the Symbian Smartphone Show here Oct. 15, Craig Cumberland, director of technology and applications marketing for software platforms at Nokia, said the company offers solutions for traditional C++ developers, Java developers, dynamic language developers, an […]

With a new offering, DataDirect Technologies is making the mainframe a prime platform for service-oriented architecture deployments. Not only does version 7 of the DataDirect Shadow software improve SOA deployments, it also helps lower the overall total cost of ownership for mainframe SOA environments, the Bedford, Mass., company officials said. DataDirect focuses on data connectivity […]

The Eclipse Foundation is rolling out Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform 1.0, a freely downloadable AJAX server for creating and deploying rich Internet applications. RAP 1.0 is the first Asynchronous JavaScript and XML platform that allows developers to create RIAs using the Eclipse component model, based on the Open Services Gateway Initiative standard. OSGi is a […]

LONDON—Nokia is trying to tap the broad world of Web developers to help deliver the next set of “killer” applications for the mobile platform. In a meeting on Oct. 15 during a Nokia Developer Forum preceding the Symbian Smartphone Show to be held here Oct. 16 and 17, Nokia officials detailed the Helsinki-based companys strategy […]

Will BEA Sell to Oracle?”> BEA Systems may have rejected Oracles initial offer of $6.7 billion, but that may not deter the software giant from continuing its pursuit. Given Oracles history of aggressively pursuing the companies it wants—most notably eventual acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2004 after months of sometimes bitter resistence—and the fact that top […]

Geoeye is a company with an eye on the environment. The Dulles, Va., company, which provides high-resolution satellite images to government agencies such as the Department of Defense as well as to commercial customers, uses solar-powered satellites, and the images are used in research such as analyzing changes in the Earths oceans. President and CEO […]

Zend Technologies is looking to extend the capabilities of the PHP Web development language as a key platform for business-critical Web applications. At its third annual ZendCon PHP conference Oct. 8-11 in Burlingame, Calif., Zend made a series of announcements, including a new Eclipse-based PHP integrated development environment, a new version of Zend Core, and […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Dell is big on Green IT. Speaking at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo here, Dell founder and chairman Michael Dell said his company is investing in energy efficient products and is doing its part to add to the greening of the environment. Moreover, Dell said, the move is bound to prove profitable for the computer […]