Brian Morrissey

After months of speculation, Dell Computer finally made its move into the lucrative printer market Tuesday, inking an agreement with Lexmark to produce Dell printers and setting up a battle with HP for supremacy in the printer market. The agreement with Lexmark, the No. 2 printer manufacturer, calls for the company to develop and produce […]

IBM’s $3.5 billion acquisition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ consulting arm cleared it final hurdle Monday, when the European Commission gave its stamp of approval. The merger is expected to close shortly. The deal creates a technology services giant with IBM’s Global Services unit reaching 80,000 employees with the addition of PwC Consulting’s 30,000. Yet, with competition […]

Web developers looking for the latest Illustrator brush or PhotoShop text effect will need to use a different address, as Adobe Systems announced the re-branding of its developer network Web site Friday. The site, formerly called Adobe Xchange, will now be called Adobe Studio Exchange. After acquiring a plug-in community site called Action XChange, Adobe […]

Six weeks after Microsoft trumpeted meeting the last of the milestones laid out in its antitrust settlement with the federal government, a group of the company’s critics complained Microsoft is not living up to the terms of the deal. In a letter sent to both the Justice Department and New York State Attorney General Elliot […]

Less than two months after signing a deal to provide a key voice application for General Motors’ OnStar information service, General Magic shut its doors for good, in order to liquidate its assets over the next two to four months to pay its creditors. In late July, General Motors inked a deal with General Magic […]

Microsoft has linked up with anti-spam technology provider Brightmail in an attempt to stem the tide of junk e-mail messages flooding the in-boxes of MSN Hotmail’s 110 million users. Hotmail, the most popular free Web-based e-mail service, has become a top target of spammers. Its users are subjected to unsolicited messages offering everything from cut-rate […]

Recognizing that all taxpayers are not the same, Intuit announced Tuesday it would roll out three specialized editions of TurboTax for the 2003 tax season. TurboTax Deluxe Investor, TurboTax Deluxe Retirement Planning and TurboTax en Espanol are slated for rollout in December. The three new editions are part of Intuit’s “Right for Me” strategy, which […]

Over half of U.S. adult Internet users have a TV and PC in the same room, with half of those reporting they watch TV and use the Net simultaneously, according to research done by comScore Media Metrix. The Internet audience measurement company found that 45.1 million adults had a TV and PC in the same […]

Handheld maker Handspring announced a free software upgrade that will make its Treo 90 organizer compatible with Secure Digital Input/Output (SD I/O) expansion cards. With SD I/O, a Treo 90 can add capabilities such as Bluetooth and PowerPoint. “We’re making [the Treo 90] even more powerful with this upgrade, which supports great new wireless and […]

IBM’s $3.5 billion cash-and-stock deal to acquire PwC Consulting received approval from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ partners on Thursday afternoon, clearing the way for the acquisition to close by next month. PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC’s parent company, said the vote by partners in its member firms was “overwhelmingly in favor” of the deal. IBM has already begun to make room […]

With IT spending by large enterprises continuing to lag, HP has targeted the mid-market with a new quarterly technology catalog. In the aftermath of its drawn-out $18.4 billion merger with Compaq, HP will gather together products geared to small-and medium-sized businesses. Customers will have the option of buying directly from HP, a service the company […]

WorldCom CEO and President John Sidgmore stepped down late Tuesday, ending what could be one of the roughest six months tenures at the helm of a corporate giant. The bankrupt telecom said Sidgmore would retain his position until a successor is found. Sidgmore will then return to his role as vice chairman, which he held […]