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"This is another aspect of Microsoft's program for trusted computing," said Hemanshu Nigam, a corporate attorney in the Digital Integrity Group, Microsoft Law & Corporate Affairs, in an interview with E-Commerce Times. "[Virus writers] are victimizing lots of people. Security, for us, is a priority, and it's our responsibility to do it the best we can."

IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky told the E-Commerce Times that SCO may have realized that winning additional settlements or voluntary license sales to avoid legal action represents its best chance to survive. "The fact is, they've made this the centerpiece of their business model, ...

"During the last big boom, from 1998 through about 2000, people bought more luxury items and got used to it," Ken Kellerhals, CEO of gourmet chocolatier Bissinger's, told the E-Commerce Times. "We've always thought that once a customer got used to our chocolate and saw how superior it was, it would be hard to go back. So we've been able to hold on to the customers we gained in the last boom. We really believe it's a push toward quality."

Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff told the E-Commerce Times that Apple's success so far has been based largely on the success of its iPod digital music player, which gave iTunes an instant head start. Apple also has loaded its iTunes site with popular features -- but in the end, the sites that win will be those that offer the best selection of music at the best price...

The undisputed king of online partnerships, at least so far, is Amazon.com. The e-tailer has used its own success to convince brick-and-mortar companies ranging from Borders to Target to link arms with it. Amazon's partnerships work, Forrester Research analyst Carrie Johnson told the E-Commerce Times, because the company brings powerful leverage to the table.

Sean Murphy, cofounder of systems and software provider Optimus Solutions, told the E-Commerce Times that buyers need to understand that computers have a multitude of moving parts. Although this fact might seem obvious, people may not grasp its importance "Things degrade over ...

"The best-case scenario in these situations is to beable to treat it as a historic anomaly, a blip in timethat the company puts behind itself and moves on,"Morningstar.com stock analyst Joseph Beaulieu told theE-Commerce Times. "Gateway can point to three straightyears of earnings that the SEC has not questioned andget back to executing its strategy of diversifyingaway from [being] a pure-PC company."

The result, he told the E-Commerce Times, is a glut of software options that all have different features For small business owners, this abundance of choices could be a boon. A multitude of features means the ability to customize -- and when it comes to spam, that type of pers...

-"If the trends in the U.S. continue and the world economy perks up, we could be looking at even greater growth," IDC analyst Stephen Minton told the E-Commerce Times. While growth levels likely will never return to peak dot-com boom levels, he said, "pent-up demand has reached unprecedented levels."

Microsoft wants everyone to migrate to Office 2003. But at between US$239 and $329 per PC for the upgrade, users may wonder whether the step up is worth the cash. In this article, the E-Commerce Times delves into the new Office suite to identify the features users likely will crave -- and those that, while promising, are not yet poised to shake the foundations of enterprise computing...

"It's logical to think that some commerce is being held back by these concerns," BSA vice president for enforcement Bob Kruger told the E-Commerce Times, adding that if consumer worries were addressed satisfactorily, "it does seem likely that online shopping could be occurring and growing at an even greater level."

"Cisco's best competitive strategy has always been to offer better products, better solutions, more solutions from the same technology," Rickard told the E-Commerce Times. "The more features they can roll up into a single solution, the better the value, especially for those enterprise customers who feel comfortable buying from Cisco."

Some ideas are so genius they're downright obvious. They're the ones that make you slap your forehead and wonder aloud why you didn't think of it first. Even worse is when you did think of it but didn't do anything about it ...

"Offshore outsourcing is just one small part of a (US)$5 trillion global outsourcing market. This market is growing by more than 15 percent per year, and the offshore component is certainly among the fastest growing," Michael Corbett, president and CEO of New York-based Michael F. Corbett & Associates, told the E-Commerce Times. "We are at the earliest stages of a fundamental transformation from regional economies to a single, integrated global economy. Just as companies now compete globally, workers need to realize that they, too, are competing globally."

Gartner analyst Betsy Burton told the E-Commerce Times that the review already has stretched for longer than most observers had anticipated, pushing back the timeline for resolving the matter and a tangle of additional legal issues, such as the rebate program. "PeopleSoft put...

Kevin Wasielewski, Alienware's vice president of marketing, told the E-Commerce Times that the company wanted to produce a machine that was reliable and performance-intensive. Its battery life is fairly standard in comparison with other notebooks, and the company is fine with that...

Last week, Apple's iTunes Music Store sold five times as many songs as the newly relaunched Napster service. According to Nielsen SoundScan, which measures digital download numbers, iTunes accounted for about 80 percent of all legally downloaded music files during the week. And at an analyst meeting Wednesday night, Apple CEO Steve Jobs commented that his company is now "the Microsoft of music stores."

"They're aware that competitors like VMWare are out there and have strong reputations," Bittman told the E-Commerce Times. "Obviously, Microsoft wants to be able to steer this market because they want virtual machines to be running as much Microsoft product as possible." Nearl...

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...

"You can't afford not to sell online," Wintergreen Research president Susan Eustis told the E-Commerce Times. "If companies don't do it, their competitors will throw them out of the market. And that goes for businesses of any size." ...