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Despite the recent gaming piracy headlines, however, Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman told the E-Commerce Times that this is not a new problem. It's just become a high-profile issue because of the recent popular titles hijacked The question is not how the piracy is occurring ...

Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg told the E-Commerce Times that smart watches take advantage of "invisible space," items you carry with you that don't take up any additional space "It's not about taking a PDA and strapping it to your wrist; it's about taking the wat...

Despite Powell's determination, however, analysts don't anticipate an entirely unregulated VoIP environment any time soon. However, Meta Group senior analyst David Willis told the E-Commerce Times that a light touch from the FCC is better than a heavy touch from individual states...

Richard Smith, a privacy-and-security consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told the E-Commerce Times that the new software has a good side and a darker alter ego 'Spying Program'...

The FX-55 might give AMD bragging rights, but it is a "boutique" component far outside the mainstream, Mercury Group president Dean McCarron told the E-Commerce Times. It's the 4000+ that will eventually trickle down into the business market, and that will take some time "Usua...

Anthony Mitchell, an E-Commerce Times columnist, has been involved with the Indian IT industry since 1987, specializing through InternationalStaff.net in offshore process migration, call center program management, turnkey software development, and help desk management ...

Brian Matus, vice president of market research IC Insights, told the E-Commerce Times that many high-tech companies, including Intel, are setting up shop in China to simultaneously keep costs under control while moving their products to more active markets quicker First Step...

Recently, the E-Commerce Times spent time with Dan Jackson, president and COO ofDeepNines Before joining DeepNines, Jackson wassenior vice president of the Kinetics Group. Jackson also has heldpositionsat USFilter, Glegg Outsourced Solutions and Glegg Water Conditioning....

Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds told the E-Commerce Times that Intel and other chipmakers pushed so-called clock-speeds as a measure of chip advancements but are now eager to have all aspects of a processor's performance taken into account One reason that speed can be de-empha...

Microsoft did not immediately return calls seeking comment. However, Joe Wilcox, a senior analyst with Jupiter Research, told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft is far from down for the count in a morphed version of the browser wars of oh so long ago "When Microsoft is motiva...

Canadian call centers were recently estimated by U.S. law enforcement authorities to be doing US$100 million in illegal business annually in the U.S. In comparison, InternationalStaff.net estimates that South Asian call centers operating illegally are currently generating four to five times that amount in total revenues ...

Governments at both the state and federal level in the U.S. are getting serious about addressing the void in the legal framework for fighting "spyware." ...

"It does serve a purpose for customers," YankeeGroup senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times "Certainly, Microsoft is trying to further its own interests, but at the same time it is helping users with this," she said....

Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds told the E-Commerce Times that Intel has been forced to focus on improving operations across the board in order to smooth out the ebb and flow of demand and as a response to stronger competition from AMD, IBM and others "Intel could always count...

"The bad blood and legal wrangling between Intel and AMD goes back a decade," Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with the research firm Illuminata, told the E-Commerce Times. "There are some very notable lawsuits [between] the two companies and such moves are not unusual in the high-tech world."

"We have more and more people using it and we also have increased interoperability, which raises the risk of a single worm infecting different platforms," Dunham told the E-Commerce Times. "The greatest threat would be if someone put together an all-in-one virus that works in all IMs or targeted one of the most popular with a powerful code."

"PC entertainment convergence is about building an infrastructure and an ecosystem in your house and, frankly, that's pretty expensive," Stephen Baker, the director of industry analysis at the NPD Group, told the E-Commerce Times "Media Center is just not an off-the-shelf kind...

"Antivirus firms have only just begun to target it and develop products for it," Ogren told the E-Commerce Times. "The best thing that spyware had going for it was that it was invisible to most people. Once they become aware of it, they can take steps to stop it, and that will be the most powerful tool to stop it."

"Media Center's success comes down to three issues," IDC Vice President Roger Kay told the E-Commerce Times. "How pleasing the experience is, the ecosystem of partners and their ability to work together smoothly, and the price." Media Center Extender, a new technology that Gat...

"Sun is in this big battle with Microsoft for enterprise commitments," Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with the research firm Illuminata, told the E-Commerce Times. "The threat for Sun is that the outstanding judgment would throw scorn and a question of risk onto Java deployment and also Sun as an entity because it rebranded a lot of its flagship products as Java Tools."