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Megacities with populations larger than entire countries are changing the physical and economic landscape of the globe. Megacities have economic engines that are powering the future of the world. Megacities have larger markets than many developed countries ...

Meanwhile, Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times that Monster remains the leader in the online job market, which continues to eat into the classifieds advertising revenue at many newspapers Overseas markets, she said, not only offer opportunities for...

Basex chief analyst and CEO Jonathan Spira told the E-Commerce Times that HP is doing this for one reason: to give their server line a much-needed boost "One might assume that security is not their business, but when providing large organizations with dozens, if not hundreds, ...

"Once AT&T was acquired, that left MCI, and that was going to happen quickly," Kagan told the E-Commerce Times Verizon, which is itself a result of the 2000 merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE, said it would be some time before the deal started to pay for itself, weighing dow...

"SAML 2.0 is a significant convergence point in the evolution of federation standards," Gerry Gebel, senior analyst with the Burton Group, told the E-Commerce Times He explained: "It can benefit e-commerce because the technology landscape has been simplified. Instead of having...

Michael Q. Lee, attorney with Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox in Washington, D.C., told the E-Commerce Times that small software companies are at a marked disadvantage if they can't patent inventions "Europe is behind the times and so companies that work in Europe are really ...

"We are in the era of the smartphone. The only question is how fast things are going to evolve," Gartner research Vice President Ken Dulaney told the E-Commerce Times Smartphones are already outselling stand-alone PDAs as the market adjusts to changing demands from both consum...

"The incursions of VoIP into the home aren't as worrisome" to carriers, Washburn told the E-Commerce Times. "But the mobile market is their growth engine." ABI Research senior analyst Philip Solis said the arrival of services such as Vonage and now Skype to WiFi calling are "s...

Independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times that if competition is brewing for MCI, that's not a surprise. With AT&T spoken for and Sprint already well-diversified into mobile and other markets, MCI is the only immediately obvious acquisition target. On the other hand, regional carriers Qwest, Verizon and BellSouth could all benefit from buying it...

John Mozena, co-founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited E-Mail, told the E-Commerce Times that Internet service providers are motivated to fight spam because customers often blame them for the nuisance "ISPs typically spend a lot of time and money trying to keep spam from...

VeriSign Vice President of Payment Services Trevor Healy told the E-Commerce Times that numbers can often be deceiving. Before merchants spend time and money on fraud efforts, he said, they need to understand the origin of the fraud "Most of the fraud comes from within the U.S

But can a smart phone with audio capabilities really compete with an iPod? IDC mobile devices analyst David Linsalata told the E-Commerce Times that it isn't supposed to -- at least not yet. Unlike MP3s, Linsalata said there aren't yet any huge mainstream mass market services from which to download songs to a mobile phone...

Cohan told the E-Commerce Times that HP could follow IBM's lead and sell its PC business, then spin off its storage and services businesses as well, as it sought to undo the merger, which he called a "very expensive mistake." Cohan also offered up a nomination for CEO: former ...

Chris Sherman, associate editor of Search Engine Watch, told the E-Commerce Times the Bloglines is a good buy for Ask Jeeves since blogging has exploded in popularity over the past year. The fact that Bloglines subscribers create personal interest profiles gives the company even more ammunition in the search wars...

Lucian Lui, director of product management in the security business and technology unit at Microsoft, told the E-Commerce Times that Sybari's third-party friendly approach was one strong selling point for Microsoft "Microsoft is committed to working within the partner ecosyste...

As for other possible reasons for the demise of COAST, Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox told the E-Commerce Times that the defections could be related to Microsoft's entrance into the anti-spyware software market "Microsoft's play in the anti-spyware market is going to caus...

Arthur told the E-Commerce Times that the rise of wireless home networks and high-speed Internet connections means that people are using their Web connections even as they watch the Super Bowl, which the data bore out. In the moments immediately after a company's ad ran on the game, Akamai saw a 600 percent increase in the amount of information being transported across its network...

Financial analyst Martin Pyykkonen of Janco Partners told the E-Commerce Times that this latest ruling has little impact on Google, other than a small financial hit. However, if Google lost enough of these trademark suits, then it could open the floodgates for additional legal claims...

Jupiter Research retail analyst Patti Freeman Evans told the E-Commerce Times she is not surprised that eBay has reacted with financial concessions because the online auctioneer has made a practice of responding to community feedback "What surprised me was the way eBay origina...

Moran told the E-Commerce Times that Ask Jeeves has been executing well but is facing fierce competition from the likes of Google, Yahoo and MSN, which launched its home-grown search product in the past two weeks "They are looking for ways to grow in a market dominated by some...