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Patent Foes Band Together for NTP Settlement

"What you have now is a market that understands that while companies used to devote billions of dollars to research and development and innovating, now consumers are demanding those innovations faster," Hartstein told the E-Commerce Times. "Therefore, these companies have to start integrating features, and with that comes patent licensing. That starts to be a calculation of these major companies' costs." ...

Ex-Yahoo Chief Hired to Helm ShopRunner

"From that moment on it was clear that we truly shared a passion for building the premier retail network and then leveraging the strength of that network to create superior value propositions for consumers and help our partners, sell more things, to more people, more often," Golden said in a letter provided to the E-Commerce Times by Chris Prouty, senior account executive at Schwartz MSL...

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EPA Contract Reflects US Cloud-Based IT Ambitions

"Using a readily available contract vehicle like GSA's IaaS BPA simplified the contracting process and ensured a faster response to the RFP," Toni Townes-Whitley, senior vice president at CGI Federal, told the E-Commerce Times. "All of the existing contract line item numbers,...

Amazon’s Fire Likely to Spread

"Despite Apple's approach, which is heavily marketing supported, wearen't a one-size-fits-all market," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "This was demonstrated by the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire's initialsuccesses," he pointed out. "A line, from a marketing standpoint, is a far [b...

Long Arm of the Law Snags Alleged DDoSer

The two attacks no doubt cost Amazon a good bit of money, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with Sophos, told the E-Commerce Times. Not only were customers blocked from placing orders, but Amazon had to spend money and resources as it attempted to deflect the attacks.

Can Sparrow Teach Gmail to Sing?

"The Sparrow team has always put their users first by focusing on building a seamlessly simple and intuitive interface for their email client," Google spokesperson Katelin Todhunter-Gerberg told the E-Commerce Times. "We look forward to bringing them aboard the Gmail team, where they'll be working on new projects."

Viacom, DirecTV Mend Fences – but at What Cost?

"The people who get the most frustrated are the ones who are paying for the service and want to watch their shows," Moran told the E-Commerce times DirecTV declined to provide further details.

Google Gets It Right in Q2

That meant Google's organic revenue growth was about 21 percent, "which is still pretty impressive," he told the E-Commerce Times. A Strong Product Strategy...

aQuantive Fiasco Hands Microsoft Its First Fiscal Loss

"Microsoft gets about 80 percent of Windows revenue from sales of PCs with Windows preloaded," Michael Silver, research vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, told the E-Commerce Times. "If PC sales are down, Windows sales will be down." As more consumers turn to...

Wireless Gains Offset Weak Broadband Sales for Verizon’s Q2

"The trends look good for Verizon in wireless," he told the E-Commerce Times. "In enterprise, revenues were pretty down and there may have been some currency and equipment issues there, but overall the trends look really good." The wireless space is the best place for the comp...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Securing Federal Employees’ Mobile Devices: Big Opportunities, Big Challenges

An example is the capability to implement centralized management. "There have been a number of industry days sponsored by federal agencies inviting the private sector to showcase their technologies," Tom Karygiannis, senior researcher at NIST, told the E-Commerce Times "The ...

Glimmer of Hope in Nokia’s Dismal Q2 Report

"They partnered with Microsoft on the Lumia with hopes this would be what they needed. It wasn't," Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "Nokia has to update and expand their brand. Right now, their brand means plain old wireless handsets, not smartphones." To do this, Nokia will ...

Facebook Growth May Have Hit a Wall

This level of new users actually mirrors past technological adoption of the telephone, television and the computer but at a much faster rate, Lieb told the E-Commerce Times. "It has now achieved saturation," she added.

AT&T Does Data-Sharing Verizon’s Way

"AT&T offers a broad choice and the best lineup of plans so customers can choose what is best for them," AT&T spokesperson Steven Schwadron told the E-Commerce Times. "Customers can build a plan to fit their devices and usage." They "only have to make one decision -- how much data they want."

AT&T Does Data-Sharing Verizon’s Way

"AT&T offers a broad choice and the best lineup of plans so customers can choose what is best for them," AT&T spokesperson Steven Schwadron told the E-Commerce Times. "Customers can build a plan to fit their devices and usage." They "only have to make one decision -- how much data they want."

Yahoo’s Q2: Mayer Has Her Work Cut Out for Her

"Yahoo doesn't need an operational fix," Chowdhry told the E-Commerce Times. "The alliance with Microsoft is a total disaster, the display ads are not what they want them to be, but it's still not a product problem that Yahoo has. They need to find and enter a new market, and they're not doing that."

Microsoft’s EU Browser Bugaboo Could Cost Billions

"When one is under essentially a court order to do something, one has to perform," he told the E-Commerce Times "You can't just shrug your shoulders and say, 'No harm, no foul,'" he added....

Synchronizing Social Traffic Signals

"We were excited to have something we could put on Facebook that actually provided a service to our members," Kelli Hawkins, Numerica's communications manager, told the E-Commerce Times. "Facebook had pretty much been just a communications tool for us. We were happy to have something that actually gives people a service and is targeted to people to use a loan product." ...

Microsoft Remodels Office

"We've had just a little amount of time to play around with the new features," Mark Jagger, CEO of tech consulting firm CyberStreamsand its subsidiary, Office365Advisors, told the E-Commerce Times. "At first look, it has gotten a facelift," he said. "It's very Metro-driven, s...

Has Yahoo Finally Found the One?

"Once an activist investor has gotten involved in a company's management policies, he or she usually leaves the company in worse shape than it originally was," he told the E-Commerce Times. That is the case with Yahoo now, he said. The battle between former CEO Scott Thompson...

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