Brian Morrissey

With more and more workers prizing mobility, Hewlett-Packard announced a series of partnerships and initiatives to give the estimated 165 million mobile professionals access to printers from their many wireless devices. At the CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas, HP said it hopes to jumpstart a new area of revenue growth in the printer market, […]

The much-reviled Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) can probably now count Red Hat as one of its critics. The Raleigh, N.C.-based Linux software company has shone a light on criticisms of the 1998 DMCA by publishing a security patch without background information, instead linking to a DMCA protest site the forbids U.S. visitors from seeing […]

PDA maker Palm pledged Tuesday to invest in a new publishing company whose aim is to provide media from Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMediaCard (MMC) formats. Palm and an undisclosed roster of private investors took a minority interest in the new company, Mobile Digital Media, to develop and distribute software through SD cards and MMC. […]

Microsoft continued to drip out details of its latest version of Office software, unveiling a new XML-based application to allow businesses to create forms and then integrate the information into their business processes. Dubbed XDocs, the program is slated for availability in the middle of 2003, when Microsoft also plans to roll out its much-hyped […]

Hoping to defend its market share in the personal digital assistants (PDA) operating systems arena from encroachment by Microsoft, Palm Computing won a ringing endorsement from Sony , which agreed to make a $20 million investment in PalmSource, the soon-to-be-separated Palm operating system (OS) unit, in return for a 6 percent stake, the two companies […]

With an eye on the lucrative market for managing Web content, Microsoft released its new Content Management Server 2002 on Monday, boasting the server makes developers’ jobs easier by more tightly integrated with Microsoft Office and Visual Studio.Net. Content Management Server 2002 joins Microsoft’s suite of .Net enterprise servers, which include BizTalk Server, SharePoint Portal […]

As government agencies begin to more closely resemble their private sector counterparts, leading high-tech companies are beginning to go after government contracts more than ever before. As a result, tech companies as large as Microsoft down to consulting firms as small as Burlington, Mass.-based Corridor Consulting are beefing up their presence inside or around the […]

NEW YORK — The auto industry is not often thought of as a hotbed of high-tech but General Motors CTO Tony Scott told attendees at Wednesday’s Internet World keynote address that Detroit is helping drive technology standards. Scott told internetnews.com that he sees a silver-lining in the current economic malaise: the software industry is more […]

Newly reinforced with its recently closed $3.5 billion merger with PwC Consulting, IBM Tuesday announced it signed The Boots Co., a United Kingdom-based pharmacy chain, to a decade-long, $1.1 billion services contract. The comprehensive deal calls for IBM Global Services to provide consulting, hardware, software and other IT services to Boots. The two companies will […]

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) continued its XML-based Web services push with the announcement Monday of partnerships that will allow its 7,000 financial institutions to link payment processes. The La Hulpe, Belgium-based financial services industry group said it struck a deal to use webMethods’ integration software to tie financial institutions to their […]

With Microsoft casting its considerable shadow over the market, IBM announced a partnership with Clear Technologies to target the lucrative mid-market with customer relationship management applications. Big Blue tapped the Dallas-based software maker to deliver its C2 CRM Web-based application that helps link businesses with their partners and employees. C2 CRM will be deployed on […]

With scam artists around the world finding the Internet fertile new ground, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an international effort to combat online fraud. The Commission announced online initiatives Tuesday with international law enforcement agencies to root out cross-border fraud in health care and e-commerce. The FTC and the International Marketing Supervision Network (IMSN) […]