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Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at antivirus firm Sophos, told the E-Commerce Times that e-mail-based Phishing attacks and other types of social-engineering gimmicks that attempt to get computer users to turn over personal information are still ensnaring many consumers.

Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft has been able to squeeze growth on the PC side, but that run is likely coming to an end and the company will have to pay more attention to customers as well as shareholders to remain dominant "Microsoft is fa...

Veritas and EMC have enjoyed the most growth in the sector, DiCenzo told the E-Commerce Times, and remain poised to capitalize on their strong reputations. "This is an area where a trusted company has a huge advantage," she said. ...

"Wage inflation only happens when there's relatively little labor supply, which isn't the case now," Thayer told the E-Commerce Times. Sharply higher wages have always drawn fast action from the Fed, which sees it as the truest measure of inflation, he added. "With wages unde...

"Search engines have long been a jumping-off point for all kinds of online activities," Levin told the E-Commerce Times. "We're seeing more online shoppers using search engines to comparison shop now than ever before." ...

Nortel spokesperson Christina Warren told the E-Commerce Times that approximately 2,500 employees are impacted by the announcement, more than half of them in Canada. While she declined to say that employees would be given any guarantees about their status, Warren said they would all be given "the opportunity to transfer to Flextronics."

The E-Commerce Times recently had the opportunity to speak with Seda about what companies need to know about tapping search engine marketing to boost their revenue and image ...

"There were hints in the first quarter growth revisions that corporations weren't moving to invest as strongly as had been hoped," Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com, told the E-Commerce Times. Although consumers have kept the expansion moving at a brisk pace, a lack of conviction in the recovery could give the Fed something to think about, he added.

Rob Kodey, vice president of technology at Web monitoring firm Cyveillance, told the E-Commerce Times that more than 600 Web sites were still infected with the malicious code as of Monday. That number was higher than many estimates, "but it could easily have been a lot higher" because many sites use the Microsoft software...

Commerce Department spokesperson Virginia Mannering told the E-Commerce Times that the trend remains positive, with consecutive quarters of growth and increased activity across the economic landscape The revision represents a decrease of about $14 billion worth of economic act...

For enterprises, Hitachi and NEC also will have to fight with Cisco, which has been steadily improving its technology and focusing on smaller companies as well as larger firms. Aberdeen analyst Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times: "Cisco understands routers, and the problems that they solve. They have the market well in hand."

"People want tech offerings to succeed," Tom Taulli, editor of CurrrentOfferings.com, told the E-Commerce Times. "That's one of the reasons the Google IPO has created such a frenzy." Like Google, salesforce.com is a category leader, he added, and has been credited with pioneer...

"There are still a lot of consumers who are unaware that this is happening," Gartner analyst Avivah Litan told the E-Commerce Times Litan and others say law enforcement efforts have not dented phishing because it's often well after the fact -- when they receive a credit card b...

IDC analyst David Linsalata told the E-Commerce Times that smartphones are where the growth will be for PalmOne, as PDA sales growth has stalled to a sputter in recent years and because of price pressure from the likes of Dell. Handheld sales fell 12 percent in the first quarter of 2004, according to IDC data.

While the list is seen as an informal contest among computer makers, striving to build ever-faster systems has important implications for research, Aberdeen Group analyst Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times. "There are applications in the military, in medical research, in...

"For the smaller startups, what's allowed them to get a foothold is a small capital outlay up front," Infonetics Research analyst Matthias Machowinski told the E-Commerce Times. But, he added, several larger firms, such as hardware provider Lucent and cable giant Comcast, have started to enter the market, making it more likely companies could sustain the impact of such an expense and still grow the technology...

"There is the notion that this lends some legitimacy to NTP's claims," Yankee Group analyst John Jackson told The E-Commerce Times. "It is a case that is still on appeal." RIM's appeal in U.S. Circuit Court of an earlier ruling that held it was infringing on patents covering w...

"The takeover and all the legal matters have created an uncertain situation for all the companies in the space," Gartner analyst Jeff Comport told the E-Commerce Times The fact that Oracle continues to perform, not only by selling more software licenses but also by boosting ma...

That gap could continue to widen until rising employment levels absorb the hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers displaced after the dot-com bust, employment expert John A. Challenger of Challenger, Gray & Christmas told the E-Commerce Times. He noted that a lack of wage inflation may help defuse worries about overall inflation in the economy...

As founder, president and CEO of network-protection firm Fortinet, Xie has seen more than his share of the techno-enemy. In an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Xie talked about the threats that still remain and what can be done in the battle against the bad guys ...