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Gartner analyst Phil Redman told the E-Commerce Times that there are advantages and disadvantages on both sides of the battle for mobile search leadership. Google has established technology and a network of advertisers but is clearly designed for use on Web-friendly devices On...

Phil Leigh, senior analyst with Inside Digital Media, told the E-Commerce Times that there is certainly a market for streaming video services. He points to Yahoo's Launch Media as a pioneer in the streaming video space, and smaller players like Free-Music.com and iMesh also offer streaming music videos. But Leigh does not see a major benefit for downloadable services...

"The lack of interoperability is still an issue," Wagner told the E-Commerce Times. In addition, questions about how to leverage DRM to make money remain, especially in scenarios where content owners are distributing movies or music through multiple partners -- technology companies, network owners such as cable companies -- before they reach the user...

"Wireless phones are becoming more than just phones, they are becoming the third-screen outside of the computer and the television," independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times Kagan said Verizon's V CAST streaming video services "truly are impressive" and...

What infectious disease killed more adults and young people around the globe at the end of the 20th century than any other? What resurgent disease has become resistant to each new drug developed since the discovery of streptomycin in 1944? What disease kills one third of all people who die with AIDS? ...

"The search sites and the portals want to lock in loyal customers regardless of where they are or what they're using to access the Web," Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times. "The important thing is that they don't lose the brand loyalty when they change devices."

Ken Dunham, the director of malicious code research at iDefense, a Reston, Va.-based threat intelligence firm, told the E-Commerce Times that his firm has been watching this scam proliferate for many months "This scam has been very successful," Dunham said. "It was very strong...

The deal combines "two hot growth areas and fast-growing businesses," IBM spokesperson Holli Haswell told the E-Commerce Times. IBM's own information integration unit saw triple-digit growth last year while Ascential posted a 46 percent jump in revenue Haswell said the buy wil...

"I didn't need to reinvent the wheel," Chasen, founder, president and chief executive of uShip, in Austin, Texas, told the E-Commerce Times. "Our business model is similar to eBay's. UShip is a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects drivers with shippers." Emerging Concept...

Just as users will choose the search engine that they believe will provide the best results, advertisers will favor the site that can provide the largest reach and give its ads the best chance to be seen and acted upon, Gartner analyst Alan Weiner told the E-Commerce Times "It...

"There was a belief in 2000 that just combining the companies would create some kind of unstoppable magic," Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times. When that didn't happen, she added, the companies found themselves searching for a strategy to make the deal work...

Hursh told the E-Commerce Times that this will allow more small, local and novice advertisers to get involved, but niche engines are still bound to gain ground in 2005. "It's easier to find a needle in a smaller haystack," Hursh said. "The challenge here is raising market awareness and changing consumer behavior."

"EBay has had such tremendous growth for so long, sustaining it will require some creative offshoots of the core business," Forrester Research analyst Carrie Johnson told the E-Commerce Times Over There...

"Handset makers are going to position themselves to cover all the angles in the market," Gartner analyst Ben Wood told the E-Commerce Times For instance, many of the new, feature-laden phones will come with hefty price tags, in some cases well above $500 in the U.S. At the sam...

"The biggest companies in search are effectively locked in to providingkeyword search-based services for advertisers," Podell told the E-Commerce Times. "But advertisers are looking to place sponsored links in other parts of the Web to increase their reach and extend their marketing programs."

Kelsey Group analyst Greg Sterling told the E-Commerce Times that Yahoo's timing is right and that the new launch enhances the portal's ability to peddle its online services, like Internet domain names, Web hosting, e-mail and e-commerce tools. Kelsey Group research indicates that currently, only 35 to 40 percent of U.S. small businesses have a Web site...

"The PC marketplace long ago started to become completely driven by price and service," Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering told the E-Commerce Times. "The power of brands like IBM is no longer enough to ensure profitability." In fact, for many major technology companies, PC sales ...

Gerald Murphy, vice president in the Global Network Strategies Group at META Group Inc., told the E-Commerce Times that AOL has access to a broad customer base, which would give them a market advantage if those customers adopted its new AOL service instead of a competitor's "A...

In recent months we've seen everything from desktops to closed-caption television shows become searchable. What will be next? John Battelle, who was the co-founder of Wired magazine and now runs Searchblog, told the E-Commerce Times that he expects to see indexing expand beyond the Web...

"People should be trained not to open attachments that they don't recognize, especially in network and enterprise settings," Sophos antivirus consultant Graham Cluley told the E-Commerce Times. While that message has long been preached with respect to e-mail, "it's just as important, if not more so, with instant messages."