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Yankee Group analyst Andy Efstathiou told the E-Commerce Times that IBM has shown greater willingness to use its market power and its increasingly strong financial position to affect the market for servers and other hardware, which in turn could mean a further boost for its software business.

Gateway spokesperson David Hallisey told the E-Commerce Times that the layoffs will be part of a larger strategy to streamline the company's operations Gateway is no stranger to conducting layoffs, especially in the recent past. When the company closed its chain of consumer el...

"For all the battering they've taken, they still have 24 million members in the U.S., and that's a powerful base to start from," IDC analyst Jonathan Gaw told the E-Commerce Times. "I think we're going to see AOL coming from a much different direction but heading toward the same future as Google and Yahoo and MSN."

"Google rose to the top by not being bound by what others had done," Li told the E-Commerce Times. The company's internal culture, where employees must set aside 20 percent of their time to work on their own pet projects, is already legendary. "They might feel that's their competitive edge and want to try and keep it as long as they can."

"Hard-core spammers are going to find ways to work around any new laws or technical solutions," Forrester Research analyst Jim Nail told the E-Commerce Times. "Obviously, people are making money at it, so if you eliminate the front-line spammers, someone else is going to step up into their place."

"Banks have seen the strategic importance of getting these customers," Franco told the E-Commerce Times. "That's why there's such a push for getting the attention of these customers in particular." To try to bring in more online bill payers and keep them happy, many banks, inc...

"Zire is an innovation not so much in technology but a business challenge to go out and reach new customers, and we've done that," he said in an interview with the E-Commerce Times, noting that palmOne data shows 70 percent of Zire buyers are first-time handheld users and 50 percent are women.

"There was a time when search wasn't seen as an important part of being a portal," Rashtchy told the E-Commerce Times. "Fortunately, [Yahoo was] in a position to take advantage of the tech downturn to arm themselves with the technology they need to compete in that space. And they also have the potential added value proposition of already being a portal that millions of people visit every day."

Eric Ray, vice president of IBM Global Services, told the E-Commerce Times that this arrangement marks the beginning of a new model that the company hopes other firms will adopt. "This really pushes the shared paradigm in financial services," he said ...

The ability to reduce the number of independently operating desktops tied to a network is a winning strategy for enterprises, Gartner vice president John Pescatore told the E-Commerce Times. "The idea of having more computing power right in the datacenter or server room where...

Dave Girouard, general manager for Google Enterprise, chatted recently with the E-Commerce Times about the Google Search Appliance, its target market, the vast opportunity within the enterprise search industry, and the environment at the Mountain View, California-based company's headquarters...

"If you are going to go public, the time to do it is when you're on top, and right now that's where Google is," Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times. "As good a company as Google is, anything can happen, especially in the search market, and that may not be the case in six months or a year."

"Because these are organizations that use the Web to communicate quickly, a traditional law-enforcement approach of targeting individuals and then moving up hierarchy would not have worked," Sierra told the E-Commerce Times. In such a scenario, evidence collected in the raids could have been destroyed before law enforcement arrived, hampering the investigation.

Intel announced the fund's creation earlier this year, and the fact that it already has identified a group of firms to back emphasizes that the company sees significant potential in the space, IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell told the E-Commerce Times. "Intel is looking to accelerat...

"Seeing more IPOs would just be one more piece of evidence that confidence has finally returned to the tech sector," National Venture Capital Association president Mark Heesen told the E-Commerce Times. "I suspect that there will be a period where people will want to see what kind of reception the offerings get, but over time it could create a better overall climate for companies to go public."

Others are little known but still have a huge impact, David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, told the E-Commerce Times. One example is an algorithm, written by the University of Delaware's Dave Mills, that synchronizes all of the clocks on the Internet...

Directions on Microsoft analyst Matt Rosoff told the E-Commerce Times that unlike the Sun Microsystems and InterTrust settlements, which augmented Microsoft's menu of features, putting consumer suits like the Minnesota case on the shelf is more about ensuring that distractions are kept to a minimum.

StillSecure CTO and vice president of engineering Mitchell Ashley spoke with the E-Commerce Times about the sophistication of today's attacks, and why they need to be addressed at every level ...

IDC analyst Susan Kevorkian told the E-Commerce Times that studios finally are starting to make deals that clear the way for widespread digital distribution "The studios have no doubt spotted the opportunities that exist, but they also are worried about the drawbacks," Kevorki...

Yankee Group analyst Andy Efstathiou told the E-Commerce Times that it was not surprising to see IBM showing growth. "The company is in a very good position because they've gotten their act together," he said. "They've been getting it together for some time. And now it looks like the market is bearing that out."