Darryl K. Taft

Tasktop Technologies, a provider of Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) solutions, announced that it has closed a Series A round led by Austin Ventures, syndicated with Yaletown Venture Partners. Tasktop said the $11 million in funding from this venture capital round will be used to help the company maximize the reach of its SLI platform by […]

IBM announced that Toyota has selected Big Blue to create a new application development platform for mobile app developers to begin building interactive apps for Toyota vehicles. The new platform will foster the creation of in-car services to improve the driver experience, IBM said. The project is part of Toyota’s new telematics service, called T-Connect, […]

As play gets under way at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London, IBM is serving fans with an interactive mobile experience with new analytics and social capabilities. This year marks the 25th year IBM has partnered with the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) in support of the Wimbledon tournament and provided new ways to […]

Xamarin, a maker of cross-platform development tools for mobile app builders, announced that its platform supports the new Amazon Fire Phone. Xamarin’s tools empower more than 650,000 developers to build native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows. As the Amazon Fire Phone is the latest major entry in the Android smartphone space, Xamarin developers […]

Adobe updated its Creative Cloud with a slew of enhancements, including 14 new versions of the company’s Creative Cloud desktop apps, as well as new mobile apps, new hardware and more. In what the company said is its biggest software release since Adobe Creative Suite 6—which was released two years ago, Adobe has introduced significant […]

IBM continues to expand its cloud footprint in emerging markets, with new installations in Tunisia and Egypt, among other places. Big Blue announced that Zitouna Bank, an Islamic bank in Tunisia, has tapped IBM for its cloud computing expertise and is using IBM systems, software and services to transform its core banking platform and develop […]

CA Technologies announced the availability of its new CA Cloud Service Management offering, a SaaS-based IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that provides enterprises with a no-code approach to IT services. CA officials said CA Cloud Service Management’s “configure, don’t code” approach enables implementation in weeks without new development and maintenance resources or complex upgrades. In […]

Microsoft has delivered a Developer Channel release of its Internet Explorer browser aimed at developers. The company announced Internet Explorer Developer Channel in a June 16 blog post, saying the release is a fully functioning browser designed to give Web developers and early adopters a sneak peek at the Web platform features Microsoft is working […]

A growing number of insurance and financial services companies are turning to Adobe EchoSign to handle new challenges of the digital workplace such as improving customer service and more. EchoSign is Adobe’s electronic signature solution that enables users to send and e-sign documents on their smartphone, tablet or any Web browser. Adobe officials said by […]

Canopy, a joint venture of EMC, VMware and Atos, announced its Canopy Cloud Fabric, a new enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. Canopy leverages the best of its three founding companies’ solutions with a one-stop shop for cloud services, including a consultancy. The company is focused on cloud delivery to large public and multinational private-sector organizations. London-based […]