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IDC analyst Roger Kay said Gateway's ability to find its strength and gain a foothold against the competition was severely hampered by its sprawling operations. Bringing those costs in line will pave the way for Gateway to plot a new strategy, Kay told the E-Commerce Times "Ob...

"We're beginning to see the IPO and acquisition markets improve, but it's going to take time before that starts to feed back into better performance for venture funds," National Venture Capital Association president Mark Heesen told the E-Commerce Times Heesen said that althou...

Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds told the E-Commerce Times that follow-up variants of worms appear to be gaining in popularity, in part because variants are relatively easy to create by altering just a few lines of code He also said the variants' ability to evade some antivirus...

Google has confirmed to the E-Commerce Times that its newly announced Web mail service is not an April Fool's hoax, despite Thursday morning speculation "It's for real," Google spokesperson David Krane told the E-Commerce Times.

"They've been very careful not to go off onto some tangent that has nothing to do with search," Yankee Group analyst Rob Lancaster told the E-Commerce Times. "That's what brought them to this point. But at the same time, they clearly have opportunities to capture some more of the time of the millions of people who are coming to their site to start searches."

McMahon revealed to the E-Commerce Times that his new mustard recipe is code-named Dead Goldfish, after one of his beloved pets. It is expected to be made available in the third quarter of 2004. Word on the street is that Dead Goldfish will be "extra spicy." ...

"Generally, when you look at the situation from a 30,000-foot perspective, SBC can improve the reach of their DSL services through added mobility with WiFi," Waryas told the E-Commerce Times. "SBC has a pretty good footprint, has its customers and is looking to sell more stuff [to combat its] eroding base, which brings WiFi into play."

"The tremendous amount of virus activity this year is affecting my own life," Michael Rasmussen, principal analyst at Forrester Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "There have been more [viruses already] this year than in my entire life." Likewise, Dennis Barr, manager of inf...

Not everyone buys into the premise of the report. John A. Challenger, CEO of job placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times that jobs are being outsourced faster than they can be replaced by startups and expanding firms. Challenger predicted some 5...

According to Robert Shields, Guidance's senior director of marketing, EnCase's marketing mix is presently 55 percent public and 45 percent private, and the fastest-growing segment is the private sector. Shields told the E-Commerce Times that 40 percent of Guidance's private-sector customers are Fortune 1000 enterprises, while the remainder consist of Global 5000 companies and forensic consulting firms...

"They may expect that Dell will be the most willing to push for a quick settlement because they have the most to lose," IDC analyst Shane Rau told the E-Commerce Times. Such a settlement, in turn, might help prompt other PC makers to ink licensing deals The suit targets the Pe...

"When the show first started out, they would show someone at the keyboard and one of the leaders would ask, 'Oh, can we look at all his e-mails?' Then the guy would hit two keystrokes, and he would say, 'Oh yes, I see this e-mail came in,'" Robert Shields, senior director of marketing at forensics software vendor Guidance, told the E-Commerce Times...

Although the hard-drive shortage appears to be the primary reason for the delay, other factors also appear to have played into Apple's announcement. The Mac Observer publisher Bryan Chaffin told the E-Commerce Times that Apple's primary concern right now is to meet U.S. demand. "They are not leaving any room in the States for someone else to come in and steal away" market share, he said...

IDC analyst Melanie Posey told the E-Commerce Times that Yahoo is seeking to build up two sides of its business at the same time, gaining additional users for marketers to reach while also picking up a solid base of existing marketing customers While Yahoo and other Internet c...

In part 1 of this article, the E-Commerce Times examined how network redundancy -- a vital if not exactly mesmerizing technology -- is becoming more accepted, especially by those who control the IT purse strings James Decrescenzio, owner of Internet Data Storage & Systems, not...

"The outsourcing trend is one that's got a long time to play itself out," May told the E-Commerce Times. "Take out the controversy and take away the rhetoric around it, and it makes business sense in a number of industries, especially information technology. That's why it's going to keep happening."

There are no statistics on sites that have no network redundancy, said Sean Clouse, president of commercial hosting firm The IQ Group. He told the E-Commerce Times that such stats do not exist because a company would have to be crazy to have absolutely no plan in place "I don'...

MLB spokesperson Jim Gallagher told the E-Commerce Times that the MSN deal gives the 30 major league baseball teams the greatest reach for online distribution of MLB content, which has proven hugely popular with fans. Last year, MLB.com sold more than 500,000 premium subscrip...

Novell spokesperson Bruce Lowry declined to discuss the HP announcement with the E-Commerce Times before the joint press conference, scheduled for later in the day. He said the press conference will feature Novell vice chairman Chris Stone and HP Linux vice president Martin Fink...

IDC analyst Jean Bozman told the E-Commerce Times that Sun and others that sell servers to corporations that run Windows -- in other words, the bulk of European enterprises -- could benefit if the commission's sanctions stand up in court. Sun's argument against Microsoft has ...