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Dave Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group and senior vice president of marketing for Tumbleweed Communications, told the E-Commerce Times that the problem is definitely increasing in seriousness "There are at least five new attacks per day that haven't been done...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that companies often seek to settle patent cases whenever it makes sense to do so, rather than risk taking them to a jury. "Microsoft and others have found out that juries can award large sums of money," DiDio ...

This sort of back-and-forth progress may not be a bad omen, but merely a step in a return to normalcy. Both the Dow and the Nasdaq are in a process of righting themselves after a hard hit. As Prudential Securities market analyst Larry Wachtel told the E-Commerce Times: "It's simply a snap back. When you look at the decline during that three-year period, the major decline was in technology."

"How many of the people susceptible to [worms] are going to get the cold? That's now measured in minutes -- not days or weeks," Hameroff told the E-Commerce Times. "The time between a vulnerability being identified and an attack that leverages and exploits it has decreased dramatically."

Byrne told the E-Commerce Times that in the fall of 1999, he walked the streets of Silicon Valley seeking funding -- and was turned down by 55 venture capitalists "Each one is a scar on my back," he said. "I was hearing about all these kids dropping out of Stanford and scratch...

There's only one problem: In the United States, running an online gaming company is illegal. Despite this roadblock, many gaming sites are succeeding in playing a significant, though stealthy, role in the e-commerce industry. In this two-part special report, the E-Commerce Times takes a good look at how they are doing it...

However, IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky told the E-Commerce Times that SCO likely is scaring away some companies that otherwise might be interested in buying from its software menu "Every time they threaten customers, be they their own or Linux users, they are making themselves a l...

IDC analyst Jonathan Gaw told the E-Commerce Times that whether a company is a B2C online retailer, a B2B exchange or another type of e-business, the basics of garnering trust are the same "It's something you earn by building up over time," he said. "You earn it through multip...

"We're having huge success with that [line]," said Rick Kagan, vice president of marketing at the Sunnyvale, California-based firewall vendor, in an interview with the E-Commerce Times. He noted that Fortinet has sold more than 20,000 Antivirus Firewall units. "What vendor in...

As a 25-year veteran in the integration space, Sterling Commerce has seen the industry, and its own corporate mission, go through many changes over the years. Sterling CEO and president Sam Starr talked to the E-Commerce Times about the past, present and future of integration ...

"No one believed that was the case with Netscape," Bernoff told the E-Commerce Times. "At the same time, there is clearly a motive for Microsoft to want to control the media platform. It makes it a lot easier for them to fulfill their vision of an integrated computing and entertainment medium that they have a hand in almost from end to end."

It shouldn't come as a surprise, because it happens every year, but somehow it is still slightly startling. With the calendar officially out of pages and the rest of 2003 now measurable in days, another year has sped past. ...

"The only real way to stop it is to charge for the right to send e-mail," Nail told the E-Commerce Times. Adding even a minuscule charge for each e-mail introduced into an ISP's network would make the medium uneconomical for true spammers, he said, clearing the way for more legitimate users to provide consumers with messages they actually want to receive.

"Maybe 10 to 15 percent of the total installed base in the United States are doing mission-critical applications over wireless networks today," Tim Scannell, president and chief analyst at Shoreline Research, told the E-Commerce Times ...

Gartner analyst Kelly Kavanagh told the E-Commerce Times that smaller companies often are seen as having more robust solutions, but they are also a risk for enterprises because their financial futures can be cloudy. "Guardent gains a well-respected, name-brand ally, and VeriS...

Now, the company also will become a leader in desktop firewalls, ahead of such competitors as Symantec and Internet Security Systems. And Check Point is not the only company that will benefit from the acquisition. "It's a great move for Zone Labs, which kind of got abandoned by Cisco after [Cisco] purchased Okena," Richard Stiennon, Gartner vice president of research for Internet security, told the E-Commerce Times...

Directions on Microsoft analyst Peter Pawlak told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft has promised better-integrated innovation across its product line before but has had a hit-or-miss track record. The revamp could help improve that spotty performance. The new unit, known as...

"It is highly unlikely that a 'butts in seats' model for mass computer training will ever thrive again," William Vanderbilt, director of CompTIA's Technology Learning Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Not only has e-learning embedded itself in the learning process, but now everyone requires a blended solution."

"There's long been a sense there are better ways to attack the online payment world," Paul Ritter, program manager at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times. While the new Yahoo option will not directly address one growing area in the online payment market -- micropaymen...

IBM said it has coupled business experts from IBM Business Consulting Services and IBM Global Services with technology experts at IBM Research. Their goal is to help Big Blue's enterprise customers make heterogeneous environments work together and exploit available resources, Al Bunshaft, vice president of grid sales at IBM, told the E-Commerce Times...