Brian Morrissey

Microsoft announced Monday it would disclose a variety of Windows technical information that the company said would bring it in line with the settlement it reached with the Department of Justice (DoJ) last fall. Chief among the changes is the disclosure in the coming weeks of 272 internal application programming interfaces (APIs) and licensing of […]

Third-generation (3G) wireless networks promised to be the panacea of the telecom industry. 3G was billed as nothing short of a telecom revolution, with everyone winning out: governments would get billions in their coffers auctioning spectrum licenses; wireless carriers would have a lucrative new source of revenue; and users would enjoy the rich content of […]

With investigations increasingly the norm on Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has moved to preserve the electronic paper trail at securities firms. According to reports, SEC regulators want to fine six top investment houses a total of $10 million for failing to preserve e-mails for regulators investigating the firms’ handling of initial […]

Microsoft continued its campaign to grab control of the mobile workplace, announcing a partnership with AT&T Wireless to jointly offer wireless devices and data services. As part of the deal, AT&T Wireless will begin offering its customers wireless services through Microsoft’s Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and laptops. The Pocket PCs will be available by the end […]

In HBO’s “Sex and the City,” Carrie Bradshaw long refuses her annoyed friends requests she get a cell phone. Considering the spotty coverage, she might have a point. In an admission that probably didn’t shock many New Yorkers, AT&T Wireless said it still has problems with dropped calls in the city. “New York continues to […]

The news keeps getting bad for the telecom sector, as Qwest Communications announced late Sunday it would restate its earnings from 1999 to 2001, slicing off nearly $1.1 billion of transactions. After beginning a review earlier this year, Qwest, a Denver-based telecom operating in 14 western states, determined that it had incorrectly accounted for sales […]

With just days to go before the July 31 deadline to sign up for its new software licensing policy, Microsoft will finally bring to an end a tumultuous, 15-month period of customer discontent — a period brought on, in Microsoft’s own words, by its own missteps in not fully communicating the plans’ benefits. The idea […]

Adding a new twist to their heated rivalry, Princeton University admissions officials accessed student records from rival Yale University’s online admissions system, leading to a Yale complaint to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to reports. The Yale Daily News, the New Haven, Conn., school’s undergraduate paper, reported that Yale officials made the FBI […]

With Microsoft’s long-awaited .Net Server operating system inching closer to official release, the Redmond, Wash., company’s two-year quest to construct a Microsoft-dominated world of Web services moved closer to reality. Combined with its February rollout of the Visual Studio.Net development toolset and the earlier release of the .Net Framework, the .Net Server is meant to […]

In a move that could herald the beginning of a printer war, HP said it would end its agreement for Dell to sell its printers, in retaliation for Dell’s anticipated foray into the printer business. “We’re always evaluating our reseller relationships,” said HP spokeswoman Dianne Roncal. “We concluded that the basis for the partnership is […]

Hoping to weave its evolving Web services platform with Oracle’s traditional database strength, Microsoft Tuesday announced a database integration technology that allows developers to integrate .Net applications with Oracle databases. The .Net Framework Data Provider for Oracle lets users of Microsoft’s ADO.Net technology to access backend Oracle databases, as well as retrieve data from multiple […]

Despite WorldCom’s record bankruptcy filing Monday, the company’s Internet backbone business is still in solid shape, industry analysts said, although a protracted restructuring could lead to future instability. WorldCom accounted for 30 percent of the U.S. backbone market last year, more than three times its nearest rival, according to researcher TeleGeography. The company boasts that […]