Brian Morrissey

Rebutting a recent finding that spam is not a drain on worker productivity, San Francisco-based market research company Ferris Research has estimated that unwanted commercial e-mail cost U.S. corporations $8.9 billion in 2002. Ferris computed the cost of spam by calculating its costly effects in three areas: loss of worker productivity; consumption of bandwidth and […]

With the rollout of the latest version of its browser, Netscape joined a band of Internet service providers and Web publishers catering to users’ dislike of pop-up ads. The decision by Netscape to include pop-up blocking options in Netscape Navigator 7.01 came as no surprise, after AOL Time Warner cousin AOL announced in October that […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

Microsoft Wednesday disclosed 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 last fall. As it announced earlier this month, the Redmond, Wash., company disclosed 272 internal application programming interfaces (APIs) that would allow competitors to design application that […]

With the telecom industry he once touted so highly battered by bankruptcies and accounting scandals, onetime star telecom analyst Jack Grubman resigned from Salomon Smith Barney late Thursday. Grubman, who came to epitomize for many Wall Street’s shady research practices, left of his own accord, but executives at Salomon were reportedly unhappy with the negative […]

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 […]

Looking to build on WebSphere’s momentum, IBM Corp. has announced a series of new products to allow enterprises to more tightly link their business processes. IBM rolled out industry-specific software for linking business processes through WebSphere Business Integration. Designed for the auto, electronics, insurance, retail, and telecom industries, the software allows companies to integrate their […]