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The transaction represents the first outside investment accepted by Webroot since its founding in 1997, Webroot CEO David Moll told the E-Commerce Times Landmark Decision...

"A major turning point came when people started to trust online shopping vendors about two years ago," Gartner analyst Adam Sarner told the E-Commerce Times. "We got through the Toys R' Us fiasco, and business started picking up. People started to find out that it was convenient to get their holiday shopping done online."

However, Thomas E.L. Dewey, a securities litigator at Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky in New York, told the E-Commerce Times that cases in which the scale of the alleged fraud is so enormous and the liability so significant are rare "For a WorldCom or an Enron, the law as applied may ...

In fact, analysts say that the new feature hints at where search is headed -- toward ever-tighter integration with the overall Web experience. The goal is to make search second nature to users, Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times, and in doing so to prompt them to seek out results, and the advertising that comes along with it and drives revenue for the search companies, more readily...

"The era of the smartphone is upon us," Gartner research Vice President Ken Dulaney told the E-Commerce Times. "The pace of change is only going to quicken in 2005." Driving the shift is an increasing comfort level among enterprises with using cellular technology to keep worke...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will use RFID chips on a trial basis to track the arrival and return of visitors from abroad. The testing phase, which will begin this spring and is expected to last one year, will occur at selected points of entry across the U.S., and it will complement the current U.S.-VISIT scheme ...

Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., told the E-Commerce Times that this is a good sign for the economy, demonstrating that companies are confident enough to advertise. "This big surge in advertising dollars bodes very well for the economy as a whole," Pado said...

"Earlier on, before it went public, there was more of a risk of Google appearing scattered," Li told the E-Commerce Times. Now that it is turning in consistent performances quarter after quarter, "it can do additional things without distracting from it what it does best." Sky'...

FTC spokeswoman Claudia Farrell told the E-Commerce Times that exact numbers on investigations and arrests were not immediately available and might be difficult to compile, since hundreds of law enforcement agencies both in the U.S. and abroad are involved in following up on complaints generated to the FTC...

"There is a generation of users coming up that's comfortable with the security of hand-held devices and will use them widely for any number of transactions," Cluley told the E-Commerce Times. "But given the difficulties of securing desktops, true mobile security is more of a challenge in the long run."

"We asked the question, 'Is there a relationship between the issues of privacy and permissions?' We found the answer is that consumers see the two aspects as being one and the same," Ponemon told the E-Commerce Times "The correlation between the relevance and frequency of onli...

The commission might be wrestling with how to make the software they've ordered to be built as palatable as possible to consumers, Forrester Research analyst Paul Jackson told the E-Commerce Times "The ruling has always represented, at best, an annoyance to Microsoft, not a ge...

"We are looking at the cell phone as the next big thing that enables mobile computing, mainly because phones are getting smarter," Burton Group senior analyst Mike Disabato told the E-Commerce Times. "We'll see bigger form factors coming in some way, shape or form over the next few years. Those form factors will be driven by the applications that people want to run."

"What a story. This is historic," Telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "AT&T is not the same company it was ten years ago but it's still historic." The two companies said the combination leverages their respective strengths: SBC's role as a regional telecom pr...

"What a story. This is historic," Telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "AT&T is not the same company it was ten years ago but it's still historic." The two companies said the combination leverages their respective strengths: SBC's role as a regional telecom pr...

"What a story. This is historic," Telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "AT&T is not the same company it was ten years ago but it's still historic." The two companies said the combination leverages their respective strengths: SBC's role as a regional telecom pr...

The E-Commerce Times caught up with Green to discuss the biggest challenges facing online retailers today and how to overcome them. Green also offers a sneak peak of his view of the retail store of the future ...

That accomplishment is a milestone that shows the extent of the spyware problem for IT departments, Webroot Vice President for Threat Research Richard Stiennon told the E-Commerce Times Spyware Out of Control...

"If Microsoft can excite buyers about the next version of Windows in the next year or two, and they're doing everything they can to build that demand, that could greatly improve their long-term outlook," Forrester Research analyst Paul Jackson told the E-Commerce Times In fact...

AOL spokeswoman Jay Esmele told the E-Commerce Times that Usenet usage is waning. AOL has some 23 million subscribers in the U.S. alone, but usage of its newsgroups have dropped to fewer than 1,000 a month while its blogging product has seen 500,000 new journals created since the service launched in the fall of 2003...