Darryl K. Taft

How BlackBerry 10 Apps Drive Enterprise Productivity by Darryl K. Taft Cisco WebEx Teleconferencing Cisco WebEx is an easy, cost-effective way to exchange ideas and information online with anyone, anywhere on any device. Accelerate decision-making, keep projects on track and collaborate over the Web in real time with integrated voice conferencing, video and content sharing. […]

Microsoft announced that it has acquired French toolmaker SyntaxTree, the maker of the popular UnityVS plug-in for Visual Studio. UnityVS is a Visual Studio plug-in for programmers using the Unity game development ecosystem. It enables developers to write and debug their scripts inside Visual Studio. Over the last decade, the Unity cross-platform game engine has […]

IBM and Bon Appetit have collaborated to deliver a new cooking app called “Chef Watson with Bon Appetit.” The app, which will initially be available in a limited beta program, combines IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology with Bon Appetit’s culinary knowledge to enable users to draw on Watson’s advanced cognitive capabilities to create entirely new […]

IBM announced that its Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology is now generally available, with new services, clients and systems integrators using it to rapidly develop applications in the cloud. Bluemix, available on the IBM Cloud Marketplace, now includes more than 50 services for building secure, cloud-based business applications. Its rapid adoption during its open beta period, […]

IBM announced that it will soon open a SoftLayer data center in London to serve European customers. The new data center will be the latest of 15 new data centers that IBM plans to open as part of a $1.2 billion global investment to strengthen and extend its cloud services around the world. The new […]

IBM has made the first delivery of its mainframe-based Enterprise Cloud System to Vissensa, a U.K.-based managed service provider (MSP). The system will help Vissensa offer new cloud services to its customers. With the Enterprise Cloud System, the company can deliver a preconfigured, pretested Linux platform that can outperform its existing x86-based cloud infrastructure. This […]

Development tool maker Genuitec has launched a private beta of its GapDebug tool for debugging PhoneGap and Apache Cordova apps. The free tool enables app testers and developers to debug any PhoneGap application without the need to set up builds. Mobile developers are no longer restricted to a Mac for iOS app testing, or weighed […]

How to Unleash the Power of Developer-Led Innovation by Darryl K. Taft Arm Developers With the Efficiencies of the Public Cloud The public cloud offers developers access to scalable, flexible infrastructure so they can use only what they need and rapidly scale up as needed. This helps shave precious time off project schedules, reduce time […]

IBM announced the availability of a new big data service on the IBM Cloud marketplace, aimed at making enterprise content more interactive, usable and secure. The new service makes enterprise content available on any browser, desktop and mobile device and applies it in the context of key business processes. IBM Navigator on Cloud, now available […]

The Eclipse Foundation announced the availability of its Luna release, the annual release train from the Eclipse community. This marks the ninth year in a row that Eclipse has delivered a simultaneous release of its key project software. This year, 76 projects are participating in the release, which includes 61 million lines of code and […]