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"Groupon has been testing firearm-related deals ... for the last eight months. Based on performance and customer and merchant feedback, it's clear they're not a fit right now," Groupon spokesperson Julie Mossler told the E-Commerce Times The company did not provide details abo...

"It is quite possible that this was a throwaway comment that was taken out of context," Fogg told the E-Commerce Times. "The press are looking for stories about RIM changing strategy, and Heins gave them what they wanted to hear. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a statement taken out of context."

All of these gadgets and software fall into a new category called Health 2.0, or Quantified Self. "There wasn't a name for it two years ago, and now there's verticals within this domain," Mike Dodd, partner at Austin Ventures told the E-Commerce Times. Austin Ventures is one ...

"It's very clear there is a spectrum demand," Rysavy told the E-Commerce Times. "There's a lot of pressure on mobile broadband providers to obtain it, and a lot of pressure on the government to free it, so it's no surprise that companies are going to extra lengths to do what they can to get it. There are no shortage of deals in this area." ...

"In terms of feeling like you have a two-year old child screaming constantly, Kickstarter was that. I'm constantly checking it," Tory Orzeck, inventor of the Orp Smart Horn, a campaign currently running on Kickstarter, told the E-Commerce Times It's important to build momentum...

"Their mobile app is excellent," Rule told the E-Commerce Times. "It has a great touch interface and you can browse, buy and pay from your phone, but there's an added bonus that's directly responsible for an increase in revenue -- the barcode scanner." Smartphones have long h...

"The momentum that they've been building has been positively consistent, and their messages have all been building upon one another," David Libby, public relations and social media consultant, told the E-Commerce Times. "I have seen statements and press releases. It's part of a normal course of business. This is not inconsistent with the way that this phone would be marketed...

"Expectations are too high with most investors now expecting success from Dell's acquisitions and initiatives around networking, storage and services," Patel told the E-Commerce Times. "Investors will no longer tolerate the slow, lumpy revenue growth or uneven margin performance that Dell has had in the past." ...

"Some will display a certain amount of information for free, and then charge for a full report," Sarah Downey, analyst at Abine, told the E-Commerce Times. In some cases, "It's totally legal for them not to offer you any way to remove data." Doing the Work...

To accommodate the two-month delay, Congress and the administration agreed to lower the bar for sequestration cuts in fiscal 2013 from US$109 billion to $85.3 billion, compared with what was appropriated in fiscal 2012. Cuts will be shared evenly between defense and non-defense programs, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of the tax bill. "Unless Congress makes a change before March 1, the sequester would begin," Brian Friel, federal business analyst at Bloomberg Government, told the E-Commerce Times...

"When it comes to more complex activities such as working on a spreadsheet or updating a personal website -- not just a microblog or simple blog -- then PCs offer higher productivity compared to tablets," Kitagawa told the E-Commerce Times. Tablet Market...

"We are in the process of analyzing the GameFly court decision and its implications for the postal service," USPS says in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by Post Office spokesperson Toni DeLancey. "The matter has been remanded to the Postal Regulatory Commission ...

"With a lot of travel sites it takes two years for them to get any good," he told the E-Commerce Times. In addition to the Wiki competition, Wikivoyage is also going up against established competitors in the online travel space, Dover noted. While the idea of crowdsourced inf...

SAP Business Suite is the largest application SAP has in terms of customers, Ken Tsai, VP, SAP Hana product marketing at SAP, told the E-Commerce Times. "That makes this release a major milestone for SAP." The introduction of SAP Business Suite by HANA is attracting significan...

"Google escaped liability in the U.S. when the FTC decided not to challenge any activity related to search," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The European Commission has historically taken a harder line on abuse of dominance than the U.S. has on monopoly. As a result, it is possible that it would challenge Google's search practices even if the FTC did not." ...

Nokia's fourth quarter performance -- especially Lumia sales -- was the result of heavy product promotion, Sean Casto, CEO of PreApps, told the E-Commerce Times "The Lumia had a nice marketing push in fall of 2012," he said. "When you combine the Lumia's marketing push with ...

"Unfortunately for RIM, its BB10 strategy will be a case of too little, too late," Cameron Yuill, CEO and founder of AdGent Digital, told the E-Commerce Times "RIM's core strategy of selling to corporations has been decimated, at least in the developed world," he said. "That ...

The service requires that the consumer have a Cloud Player account, Amazon spokesperson Sally Fouts told the E-Commerce Times. The account costs US$24.99 a year after letting consumers download the first 250 songs for free Amazon is touting AutoRip as a competitor to Apple's i...

"It's very possible that some of that spectrum is currently used by DoD technology, but that would probably be the only hang-up," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "Other than that, the FCC is going to do what it can to get this through. It has enough control over locking up spectrum that it can tell the other agencies or consumers they have to bend a little to get this through." ...

"Folks liked putting the devices on their wrists when they were bike riding, jogging or doing many other sports -- or just having it more handy than in their pocket," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "For a startup, this is a decent market that could grow to become the next b...