Darryl K. Taft

Welltok has announced its acquisition of Zamzee, a health program developed by HopeLab, to add more solutions for children to the Welltok CaféWell Health Optimization Platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. HopeLab, a philanthropic research and development organization, developed Zamzee to help boost physical activity in kids and families. While many blame […]

IBM reported third-quarter revenues of $19.3 billion, down 14 percent from the same period in 2014. Net income for the quarter fell to $3 billion from $3.5 billion in the third quarter of 2014, down 14 percent. IBM’s quarterly results took heavy hits in both hardware, down 39 percent, and software, down 10 percent. The […]

Scientists from IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) recently announced a new open platform to support the creation of smartphone apps that can enable the blind to better navigate their surroundings. IBM partnered with CMU’s famed Robotics Institute to create a pilot app called NavCog that draws on existing sensors and cognitive technologies to […]

IBM this week announced it is making its Bluemix platform as a service available in China in collaboration with 21Vianet Group, a Chinese carrier-neutral Internet data center services provider. Big Blue said this effort will usher in a new era of hybrid cloud-driven innovation and next-generation cognitive, analytics and Internet of things app development for […]

IBM advanced its hybrid cloud capabilities by announcing a new cloud offering with VMware that enables enterprises to extend their existing on-premises VMware infrastructure into the IBM Cloud through VMware NSX. IBM said the offering, which includes monthly billing and processor-based pricing, enables customers to easily move workloads and applications across IBM’s global network of […]

NEW YORK—IBM announced new functionality for its Watson Analytics offering, including new data discover and Q&A capabilities, new connections to corporate data and a brand new Watson Analytics solution in the form of Watson Analytics for Social Media. At an event dubbed “Analytics for All” at the famed Cipriani 42nd Street restaurant here, IBM introduced […]

Compose, an IBM company, announced that it will release new hosted services this month to provide application developers with additional tools for building Web and mobile apps. The new services are CoreOS etcd and RabbitMQ, which will complement Compose’s existing offerings, which include MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL and RethinkDB. Compose provides a production database service […]

IBM has introduced new capabilities for its Bluemix platform as a service (PaaS) that make it faster and easier for developers to debug applications in a cloud environment using popular open-source utilities like node-inspector and tty.js. These types of open-source utilities are widely used by developers on their local machines, but connecting a debugging tool […]

As it did for many folks in my position, the news that S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, was stepping down after 27 years at the company, hit home and hit hard. Immediately I knew I’d miss him. I began to get one-word notices and texts simply saying: Soma! He’s been […]

IBM this week launched a new “LC” line of servers that infuse technologies from members of the OpenPower Foundation and are part of IBM’s Power Systems portfolio of servers. The new Power Systems LC servers were designed based on technologies and development efforts contributed by OpenPower Foundation partners—including Canonical, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan and Wistron. The […]