Brian Morrissey

On the heels of closing its purchase of business-applications software company Navision, Microsoft gave a sneak peek at its much-t alked-about customer relationship management (CRM) software due for release later this year. Speaking at the Silicon Valley Speaker series in Mountain View, Calif., Microsoft’s general manager for CRM, David Thatcher, said Microsoft would aggressively target […]

Microsoft said Thursday that it would soon begin making home networking products, marking a significant bet by the software giant that wireless local area networks (LANs) are poised for a mainstream takeoff. The Redmond, Wash., company, said it will begin to sell a line of hardware products to enable customers to build home networks with […]

In the hopes of luring developers to use its .Net Web services platform, Microsoft Wednesday announced the free availability of the Visual Studio .Net integration software development kit (SDK) and an online help center for developers building .Net architectures. Microsoft enterprise customers holding a select licensing or enterprise licensing agreement can now get the integration […]

IBM Wednesday announced hardware and software to help medium-sized businesses easily and effectively cope with their storage needs. At the center of IBM’s new offerings is the new TotalStorage Network Attached Storage 100 (NAS 100), a thin appliance referred to as a “pizza box,” which will be available next month. According to the company, the […]

Targeting the wireless enterprise market, Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership with systems integrators to jointly develop and market mobile deployments to businesses. The initiative, dubbed Microsoft Mobility Workplace, brings the Redmond, Wash., company together with HP Services, Accenture, Cap Gemni Earnst & Young, and other systems integrators to roll out devices, applications and services geared […]

With an eye on expanding its presence in the market for managing Web content, Microsoft Corp. announced the beta release of its new Content Management Server 2002, boasting tighter integration with Microsoft Word and Visual Studio.Net. The beta version is available at Microsoft’s Web site, with the commercial version set for release at the end […]

WorldCom executives continued to play damage control yesterday, seeking to distance the company’s current management from the past accounting irregularities that led to last month’s $3.8 billion restatement of earnings. In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on Monday, WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore sought to put distance between WorldCom’s current top management and the […]

Gnutella developer and peer-to-peer (P2P) pioneer Gene Kan passed away June 29 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 25 years old. Kan, who had been struggling for some time with depression, was best known for his early work on Gnutella, an Internet file-swapping technology that does not rely on a central server like Napster. […]

KPNQwest Wednesday starting shutting down its 10,000-kilometer Ebone network after a buyer wasn’t found, according to reports. While not all of bankrupt KPNQwest customers were affected, the partial shutdown threatens to slow European Internet connections, as Ebone traffic is re-routed. Netherlands-based KPNQwest, a joint venture between KPN and Qwest Communications formed in 1998, provides Internet […]

Holding court yesterday with reporters after a terrible week for his company, WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore made clear the company was too big to fail. Exhibit No. 1: its UUNet subsidiary, an Internet backbone provider that routes over half of the world’s e-mail messages. While admitting a WorldCom bankruptcy is a real possibility, Sidgmore vowed […]

Industry researcher Gartner Dataquest said the one billionth PC shipped in April 2002, while flat growth of late is expected to pick up pace, as broadband penetration increases and emerging markets adopt PCs at feverish rates. While it took 25 years for one billion PCs to ship, Gartner predicts the two billionth PC will ship […]

Breaking his silence a week after WorldCom first revealed overstating its earnings by $3.8 billion, chief executive John Sidgmore vowed to do everything possible to avoid bankruptcy, while acknowledging the firm’s fate is at the discretion of its lenders. Speaking at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon, Sidgmore said WorldCom received default […]