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The telcos object because most "are not secure enough," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "This will just make them a target, and they don't want the liability." The second proposal reportedly is for a government agency other than ...

"As far as I can tell, this kind of economic swing in response to a data breach is largely unprecedented," Brian Pascal, research fellow at UC Hastings College of the Law, told the E-Commerce Times. "In the past, companies have suffered some financial hits following news of ...

"It's very important to note how fragmented the cloud storage market is," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The list is endless -- with Box, Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive getting most of the attention." It remains to be seen whether this is the first step toward an eventual ...

"The crash exposes numerous vulnerabilities for the currency, and while many were relevant to Mt. Gox only, others will continue to affect the entire network and various exchanges," Peter Leeds, publisher of Peter Leeds Penny Stocks, told the E-Commerce Times. "There are no salaries, assets, or regulatory responsibility behind Bitcoin, so it could completely disappear quite easily."

"Given his history, one might suspect that Carl Icahn's critique of eBay was another example of his swashbuckling style as a raider," David Cadden, a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Quinnipiac University, told the E-Commerce Times. "However, this time his assaul...

"The Internet of Things is an exploding innovation ecosystem and is poised to be a prime engine of economic growth and mobile opportunity globally. In these very early innings of this exciting technological transformation, government should avoid rigid, prescriptive policies that could stymie our rapidly evolving wireless revolution," Mobile Future Chair Jonathan Spalter told the E-Commerce Times. Mobile Future members include AT&T, Cisco, Ericsson and Verizon...

"The agreement with Comcast means that Netflix customers on the Comcast network will receive a better Netflix experience," Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers told the E-Commerce Times Consumers by and large don't care about what happens behind the scenes, Dan Rayburn, a principa...

"There are tens of billions of dollars involved," he told the E-Commerce Times. What Spider.io Does...

"It's just a cosmetic move," Jim McGregor, a founder and principal analyst with Tirias Research, told the E-Commerce Times SkyDrive, which competes with services like Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive, has been rebranded "OneDrive." The renaming was announced in January. It was...

Google Fiber "will force existing carriers to lower prices to compete and make the city a more desirable place to live," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. Potential Return...

"At first, I was shocked by the $19 billion valuation, even if it is only $3 billion in cash," he told the E-Commerce Times. "However, when you start looking at other valuations for tech companies over the last two years, such as Twitter at nearly $10 billion, you find two important things that have really been essential in a higher-than-normal valuation: user and user data acquisition, and mobile usage."

"They're trying to become, in my opinion, a social network, which at the end of the day may hurt them if they stray too far away from what it was really founded for: to connect people in business," Gordon Owens, digital marketing professional at GO Digital WSI, told the E-Commerce Times.

"We've predicted that in 2014 a number of acquisitions or partnerships would take place, so the fact that AT&T and IBM have joined forces, especially around municipalities and utilities, makes a lot of sense," she told the E-Commerce Times There appears to be abundant opportun...

"We've predicted that in 2014 a number of acquisitions or partnerships would take place, so the fact that AT&T and IBM have joined forces, especially around municipalities and utilities, makes a lot of sense," she told the E-Commerce Times There appears to be abundant opportun...

"The cloud is not appropriate for many federal IT operations, but there is still a huge potential for the technology," Annette Rippert, managing director at Accenture Federal Services, told the E-Commerce Times. A glimpse of that potential was revealed in a November 2013 repo...

"While HP eventually learned that a portion of Autonomy's revenues were related to hardware sales, we knew nothing of the accounting improprieties, misrepresentations and disclosure failures related to such sales until after a senior Autonomy executive came forward and HP conducted an extensive investigation," HP spokesperson Howard Clabo told the E-Commerce Times...

"I think King is in a somewhat different position than Zynga has been," Lewis Ward, gaming research director at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. "Zynga has been much less successful in terms of launching successful games on smartphones and tablets. I would argue there's a different dynamic in terms of [King's] revenue. They are something of a one-hit wonder -- I've tried Bubble Witch Saga and don't find it nearly as compelling." "...

"It's an important part of our network planning and always has been," AT&T spokesperson Mark Siegel told the E-Commerce Times. Relentless Pursuit of Spectrum ...

"Android has become the world's most popular smartphone operating system, thanks to a wide variety of handsets from many manufacturers and at nearly every price point," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Apple, on the other hand, has generated huge profits with a very limited portfolio of high-margin devices that maintain the company's high-profile brand."

"The No. 1 cable company combining with the No. 2 -- I don't see how this will help consumers or smaller businesses or competition," Michael Copps, former FCC commissioner and special adviser to the Common Cause Media and Democracy Reform Initiative, told the E-Commerce Times ...