Darryl K. Taft

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has devised a new debugging system that automatically and more efficiently finds common programming bugs. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed DIODE, or the Directed Integer Overflow Detection system, which checks for integer overflows. Integer overflows are one of the most common bugs […]

Financial Services Firms Bank on the Cloud by Darryl K. Taft ABN AMRO As part of a 10-year, multibillion-dollar IT infrastructure services agreement, IBM is helping ABN AMRO implement a private cloud together with further standardization and simplification of the Dutch bank’s existing IT landscape, from mobile computing to mainframe. Through continued optimization and transformation […]

Microsoft has launched a new service on its Azure cloud platform known as the Azure App Service. Azure App Service brings together Azure Websites, Azure Mobile Services and Azure BizTalk Services into a new, unified developer experience. “App Service is a new service in Azure that makes it easy for developers to build web and […]

Microsoft has released a first preview of its Visual Studio 2015 tools for building Windows 10 apps. The Windows 10 Technical Preview tools are available to Windows Insiders to use with Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and the Windows 10 Technical Preview. “Windows 10 will be an exciting release for developers, with support for Windows […]

IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute announced the results of a joint study that indicated that an alarming rate of mobile app developers are not investing in security. Indeed, the study’s findings show that nearly 40 percent of large companies, including many in the Fortune 500, are not taking proper precautions to secure the mobile […]

IBM announced a key investment in Modernizing Medicine, a provider of cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical records (EMR) systems and other technologies that capture structured data, track outcomes and deliver clinical decision support. The move, aimed at accelerating the adoption of IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology in the health care industry, caps $20 million in Series […]

Building on their landmark partnership announced in October, IBM and Twitter announced several new cloud-data services to help businesses more efficiently listen to consumer Twitter conversations to identify insights and to make better business decisions. By merging Twitter data with Watson Analytics, users can more easily identify and explain hidden patterns and relationships, the companies […]

Adobe has announced the launch of the Adobe Document Cloud, a new way to manage documents at home, in the office and across devices. The Adobe Document Cloud is the third component of Adobe’s cloud strategy which already includes the Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud. At the heart of Document Cloud is the […]

Up to now, Microsoft has jealously guarded its developer base, forcing developers to adhere to “either-or” scenarios of Java versus .NET or open-source versus Microsoft. But now, Microsoft is making some major changes that it hopes will prove those days are waning, if not over. Microsoft is now taking .NET to places it has never […]

Google announced it is closing its Google Code open-source project hosting service and moving projects to GitHub. Google launched Google Code in 2006, but disabled new project creation on the site on March 12. As of August 24, the site goes read-only and on January 25, 2016, the hosting service will be closed completely. “When […]