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The company's CTO, Thomas Kristensen, told the E-Commerce Times that he thinks exposing such flaws is important because users deserve to browse without needing to be continually suspicious "It's very important for the normal user to have IE be safe," he said. "The user needs t...

Boyd Peterson, vice president for consumers, media and entertainment at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon's overall numbers indicate the company's growth and maturity as a retailer. "They have had successful product-line expansion and international expan...

Ogren told the E-Commerce Times that when security threats like worms and viruses crop up, he would prefer to see better education rather than promises of enforcement "Consumers need to be educated," he said. "People at a company are okay, because there's an IT guy to handle t...

"I not only make sure my shirt, tie and shoes match, but I make sure my notebook matches my client," Almeida, who is owner and chief strategist of Almeida & Associates, a Boston-area consulting and system integration firm, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's one of those scenarios where you've got to know your audience. For folks that do a lot of graphics work or multimedia work, Mac is far ... superior. I look the part and bring my Mac products with me."

Virginia Tech spokesperson Lynn Nystrom told the E-Commerce Times that, after negotiations with Apple, Virginia Tech found that the cost to optimize on the Xserves would be minimal. The cost to construct the original system was US$5.2 million -- just a fraction of the total required to construct the world's fastest and second-fastest supercomputers...

He told the E-Commerce Times that the worm started in Eastern Europe, but time zones prevented it from being as large a threat there or in other parts of the world because of lower e-mail activity "It was the middle of the business day in the United States, but over here it wa...

The E-Commerce Times spoke with Ungerman last week, on the eve of the company's release of its new InterSpect intrusion prevention appliance. Here is what he had to say about today's network security threats and the future of firewall technology ...

One reason why Google is not plunging headlong into the social-networking market by providing more direct backing to Orkut may be the continued uncertainty about whether social networking sites can morph from online phenomena into money-making businesses, Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times.

William Baker, a partner with law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding who specializes in e-commerce and privacy law, told the E-Commerce Times that as the new legislation takes effect, more attention will be paid to consumer privacy and related issues of security. Sometimes, he added, privacy and security can be at odds with each other, which might turn out to be a legal challenge for e-businesses trying to strike a balance between the two requirements...

"EMC was being hit by the downturn, but also seeing its storage market share eroded by competition," McArthur told the E-Commerce Times. "People were turning to the IBMs of the world because they could presumably do a better job of integrating storage into the overall enterprise network landscape."

Since then, Apple has spiffed up iTunes by releasing new versions of its iPod digital music player, making iTunes available to Windows users and inking deals with industry heavyweights, such as AOL. Chris Bell, director of product marketing for iTunes, talked with the E-Commerce Times about how Apple has always paid attention to music -- and why it always will...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that, although she is not a copyright expert and therefore cannot state with assurance or authority that either SCO or Novell has the best claim, she can offer her opinion "My opinion is that, on the surface, th...

IDC semiconductor analyst Shane Rau told the E-Commerce Times that AMD has benefitted from sharply rising sales of PCs to consumers "The backlog of inventory of chips that was out there has finally been worked through, and customers started ordering new shipments and asking ab...

For the past couple of weeks, we've been testing a notebook computer that blends enterprise quality with power-user cool. The Sentia is a relatively new offering from Alienware, a Miami, Florida-based maker of high-end computers, and it reflects the company's increasing commitment to moving from its core gaming niche into broader markets ...

Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times that the vendors may have been waiting to evaluate the strength of SCO's case before extending indemnification to their customers. With the courts handing some early legal defeats to SCO by requiring it to detail how the Linux kernel is similar to code contained in its Unix patents, they may have been emboldened to step forward...

Gene Manyak, product marketing manager at Check Point, told the E-Commerce Times that the new appliance protects businesses from application-level threats, which infect many networks through laptops and other mobile devices that bypass traditional firewall solutions and connect to the network directly...

John A. Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times that despite predictions of strong economic expansion in 2004, tech-sector hiring may remain muted. Number two chipmaker AMD has indicated it plans to expand its payroll this year, but few other companies have followed suit, and some, such as AOL and Sun Microsystems, have continued to pare their workforces...

Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager at Symantec Security Response, said the people who discovered the new VoIP vulnerability are the same ones who discovered the original flaw in SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) a year ago. Different protocols often share similar encoding. "It's easier to take something that's already out there rather than begin from scratch," he told the E-Commerce Times...

"That uncertainty is what companies most want to avoid in these cases," DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. "Some kind of compromise to enable this technology to remain in the browser almost has to be reached." ...

"It becomes a matter of the expectations maybe getting aheadof what is still definitely a strong comeback for technology companies,"Morningstar.com stock analyst Todd Bernier told the E-Commerce Times. "Thefundamentals -- profits, revenue increases -- are solid. But there's aconcern that investors are counting on a trend line that will be hardto sustain, especially if the economy doesn't do its share."