Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Aimed at Transforming Businesses Here’s a look at how companies are using Microsoft technology, including Cortana Intelligence, to power their big data, advanced analytics and AI environments. Portugal Telecom Portugal Telecom’s MEO subsidiary is the nation’s largest telecom operator, offering 200-plus channels, a vast catalog of video-on-demand content and a state-of-the-art user […]

What Enterprises Can Learn From Gaming Industry About Mobile Apps The mobile gaming industry can teach a lot to enterprises when it comes to engaging users. Here are some tips to help companies make their mobile apps more engaging. Understand Revenue Drivers First Games can be wildly successful or infamously tricky to monetize. To ensure […]

The Weather Company, an IBM business, announced the availability of a new Cold and Flu Tracker that uses cognitive computing technology to provide localized cold and flu activity to consumers. The new Cold and Flu Tracker is sponsored GSK Consumer Healthcare’s (GSK) Theraflu brand and is available on Weather.com, Theraflu.com and The Weather Channel app. […]

IBM has launched a new Watson Application Developer Certification program to recognize developers who are qualified to build applications on the Watson cognitive computing platform. Not only will the certification program enable developers to test and validate their expertise in developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based cognitive computing applications, but it also will help organizations looking to […]

6 Considerations for a Successful Enterprise IoT Strategy From having adequate manpower to planning for unpredictability in a mass-deployment environment, organizations need to cover their bases to use IoT applications successfully. IoT Solutions Should Make Financial Sense The current generation of IoT use cases revolves around optimization of existing processes, such as collecting smart meter […]

IBM and AT&T have announced an expansion of their longstanding relationship that takes advantage of each company’s strengths including AT&T’s FlexWare networking solution as well as IBM’s cloud infrastructure and sales and marketing teams. The expanded partnership will help customers with hybrid cloud and IT-as-a-service deployments, as IBM will now sell the FlexWare solution, Big […]

The number of software developers building mobile applications reached 12 million in 2016 and is expected to surpass 14 million by 2020, according to a recent Evans Data survey. The report, titled “Evans Data’s Global Development Population and Demographics Study,” found that the number of developers writing for mobile devices has increased by more than […]

Microsoft today announced it will once again host its Connect(); developer conference in New York Nov. 16 and 17. The event, which will be live streamed, will be an opportunity for Microsoft developers to get a look at many of the latest innovations from Microsoft’s developer unit, its cloud experts and others. An update of […]

IBM sees the future through an artificial intelligence lens and continues to invest in cognitive technologies to drive new business opportunities such as the internet of things (IoT), Blockchain, big data analytics and others. That vision is behind Big Blue’s new $200 million investment in the global headquarters for its Watson internet of things (IoT) […]

Mainframe software maker Compuware has announced a series of moves to help enterprises bring the mainframe further into the DevOps fold. Compuware announced the availability of new REST APIs for ISPW, a popular agile source code management and release automation solution the company acquired in January. These APIs enable organizations to integrate their mainframe and […]