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"We believe that technological enhancements can improve users' security while ensuring the Web remains economically viable," Google spokesperson Nadja Blagojevic told the E-Commerce Times, echoing Google's party line on this issue. "We and others have a number of concepts in this area, but they're all at very early stages."

"The IT Solutions Navigator tool is meant to address that gap in awareness, at least in the IT arena," he told the E-Commerce Times The Navigator does not offer in-depth procurement assistance, however.

"To some degree, Netflix is already being used as a catch-up TV service for people who are cord cutters, or for people who don't want to or don't care to watch TV live when it airs," he told the E-Commerce Times. "In that case, they can binge-view their favorite shows without having to wait for new seasons."

"This is a really strange lawsuit, and I have to assume it comes down to people clicking 'OK' on things they didn't really understand," he told the E-Commerce Times. LinkedIn has carved out a niche for itself in the social networking space by catering to individuals looking t...

"People are realizing that Twitter can really capture the 'tune in,'" Rebecca Lieb, industry analyst for the Altimeter Group, told the E-Commerce Times The Oreo Factor...

"There is definite potential for promoted pins to be successful, especially for businesses looking to showcase their wares," Chelsey Binkley, social engagement coordinator at Engauge, told the E-Commerce Times "For retail and fashion brands that already use the platform to dr...

Sony's plan is "aggressive, and I think it may ultimately sell closer to 4.5 million [units] through next March, as long as there are no big supply chain hiccups along the way," Lewis Ward, research manager for gaming at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times Sony did not respond to o...

Game makers will surely benefit if Gartner's projections are correct, Steve Bagdasarian, vice president of business development at Fiksu, told the E-Commerce Times "Game publishers have consistently been ahead of the curve in terms of understanding and adopting new app marketi...

In many cases, carriers today will give consumers the right to unlock their phones, but getting them to do it can be very frustrating, Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "There are a lot of situations in which consumers want to make this ste...

"Making BBM broadly available is another move in BlackBerry's 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' strategy of running Android applications within BB10," Feland told the E-Commerce Times. "Consumers have been begging for BBM to be a cross-platform application for years, but BlackBerry has held back trying to use BBM as the carrot to entice customers into their ecosystem...

Calico may seem to be an outlier research endeavor for Google, but in fact its roots in analytics and data mining will serve it very well as it pursues the secret to aging, Maureen Rhemann, senior strategist for Trends Digest, told the E-Commerce Times "Google's investments in...

"If companies like Adobe can make creating art digital in a way that the technology doesn't interfere with creativity, then I think we'll start to see more and more people using digital tools to create art," he told the E-Commerce Times Along with setting a reasonable price po...

"An agency's enterprise network -- machine to people, machine to machine, in the data center, and across the enterprise -- is more critical than ever, whether operating in the U.S. or abroad. A future networking infrastructure capable of supporting the Big Five initiatives noted by MeriTalk is a foundational necessity for mission success," Jill Tummler Singer, a partner at Deep Water Point, told the E-Commerce Times. Singer joined the firm in August after serving as chief information officer for the federal National Reconnaissance Office...

Even from this small base, however, Netflix has been very strategic with its offerings, Val Wright, principal at Val Wright Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times "It used analytics to match that customers who loved the original House Of Cards also loved Kevin Spacey and used t...

"From a site management perspective, the more information you can get, the better," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It helps you fill in questions about who your audience is, and marketers want to be able to market things to people who are interested in them." That newly gene...

Current location-based access control and payments solutions that use a GPS signal are authenticated through proprietary algorithms, GNSS expert Monica Pesce, who is associate partner at Valdani Vicari & Associati, told the E-Commerce Times Improved Security...

"It's a very forward-looking acquisition," he told the E-Commerce Times. "All the mobile devices out there are very good at creating content, but they're not great at sharing. Some of the next innovations with smartphones are going to be user-generated content, and finding better ways to share it and make it more ubiquitously available will be a great feature." ...

Apple has updated its development environment for 64-bit architectures, so developers only have to recompile their iOS apps to make them 64-bit compatible if they have not done anything non-standard with their code, Howe told the E-Commerce Times However, the situation with A...

"The key here is year-on-year improvements," Piers Harding-Rolls, director and head of games for IHS Electronics and Media, told the E-Commerce Times. "August is generally a slower month for games sales as the industry ramps up for the holiday season "This year, consumers wer...

"Assuming 40 percent growth, that should lead to $343 million in 2013," Randall told the E-Commerce Times. "If Twitter is already profitable, then a post-IPO valuation of roughly 12x revenue will give the company a market capitalization of over $4 billion." To be sure, most re...