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IDC analyst Roger Kay told the E-Commerce Times that the rise in PC sales are within forecasts and indicate at least a modest economic recovery not only the United States but other key markets for computer makers as well. "There's no reason to believe the strength in the mark...

"Amazon launched the new company to develop e-commerce search technology -- to give it both to Amazon.com and other licensed sites," Diboll told the E-Commerce Times. "More and more companies want to partner with A9 to take advantage of this technology." At stake is the $82.9 ...

Google spokesperson David Krane told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon remains a "trusted partner," noting that the two companies forged a wide-ranging agreement more than a year ago However, other Internet companies, most recently and notably Yahoo, have morphed from users of ...

Additionally, Rau told the E-Commerce Times that while Intel dampened its second-quarter outlook slightly, the forecast for all of 2004 for the chip sector remains bullish. IDC is predicting an 18 percent increase in worldwide chip sales, driven largely by more enterprise spe...

Figueroa told the E-Commerce Times that Google executives spoke with her Monday,but the outcome was not what she wanted "We came to the consensus that we've agreed to disagree," she said. "We viewit very differently. They see [content scanning] as a service. I see it asinvasio...

Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds told the E-Commerce Times that IBM is seeking to use its wide-ranging business partnerships and relationships to boost its chip business, which increasingly relies on such customized agreements. "IBM has trouble competing with Intel in the pure...

AMD spokesperson Drew Prairie told the E-Commerce Times that the company believes financial terms of the agreement are fair. "We wanted protection for our customers," he said. "That makes it worth it." ...

"The Linux lawsuits put buyers of technology on notice that they can be held responsible if they buy something -- they might be getting some legal entanglements along with the software," Kay told the E-Commerce Times. "The fewer high-profile cases left dangling, the clearer the value proposition that Microsoft can sell itself with."

"A lot of people, even some of my colleagues in the security business, have said that the protocol suite was designed poorly from a security perspective," Steve Bellovin, a Fellow at AT&T Labs Research, told the E-Commerce Times In terms of the Internet's future, is it possibl...

The company expects to hire approximately 75 people within the next year and 500 people within the next three years. This move, which can be viewed as a kind of reverse outsourcing, is likely to be replicated by other global firms, according to Phil Fersht, Yankee Group senior analyst. He told the E-Commerce Times that Infosys may be one of the first companies to employ the tactic, but it will certainly not be the last...

Rosoff told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft is responding to the various threats to its market position in an aggressive way now that it knows that legal battles will tie up the EU anti-trust case for some time "They're back to executing, to getting more companies to see t...

Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley told the E-Commerce Times that the timing of the attack over what is in many parts of the world a long holiday weekend may enable it to be carried out without detection on many users' PCs Cluley said the worm essentially strike...

In this continuation of his chat with the E-Commerce Times, Hypponen talks about what it might take to nab malware writers -- and why a virus-free future might be a dream that never becomes reality ...

As Smith told the E-Commerce Times: "I'm all for targeting ads on Web pages based on content, but e-mail messages are private communications. It's just not polite to read other people's e-mails." He added, "To my knowledge, none of the other major e-mail companies like Hotmail...

"Companies that may have been reluctant to sign a deal with an Indian company, especially given the tenor of the debate around the issue, can now sign with IBM to outsource everything and then let IBM decide where the jobs go," industry analyst (*correction) Ned May told the E-Commerce Times...

For the past 13 years, Hypponen has been working in the computer security field, and his weblog on F-Secure's site is required reading for anyone who wants the latest information on which viruses are snaking around the Internet. Hypponen spoke to the E-Commerce Times about security, viruses and why malware is here to stay...

Moreover, many IT managers appear to be reluctant to shoulder the risks of adopting an entirely new operating system unless the gains are clear, DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. "What we heard was that the undertaking was considerable and there would need to be equal payoff a...

Drees recently spoke with the E-Commerce Times about the Web performance business and the evolution of this growing industry ...

In fact, Forrester Research analyst Chris Charron told the E-Commerce Times that online gamblers as a group are more likely than non-gamblers to click on Web advertising -- and to make purchases as a result of those clicks. "These sites rely upon their paid search listings an...

Dana Gardner, senior analyst for application infrastructure and software platforms at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that Friday's announcement took him by surprise "It was very dramatic. If there had been some settlement one aspect, [such as] Java and Microsoft J...