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"Without across-the-board gains, it's hard to tell if Cisco is just executing better or if buyers are coming back in force," Gartner analyst Rachna Ahlawat told the E-Commerce Times. The consumer gains Cisco saw are unlikely to be seen elsewhere, Ahlawat added, because Linksy...

After all, the days of hundreds of dollars' difference between laptops and notebooks have disappeared, Randy Ramirez, president of Connecting Point Computer Centers, told the E-Commerce Times. "The pricing has come down. It's gotten more even," he said. "There used to be a bi...

"The hacking community is a criminal community, and there's no honor among thieves," Gray told the E-Commerce Times. "If they can make a buck by pointing fingers, they will." Gray noted that hackers were helpful in leading investigators to "Mafiaboy," the Canadian teen charged...

Reporters and analysts covering the technology industry have one thing right: The insecurities that lurk within software represent a legitimate threat to commerce and potentially even national security ...

"Laptops have become just as fast and just as powerful as the desktop. It's multipurpose," Randy Ramirez, president of Connecting Point Computer Centers in Melbourne, Florida, told the E-Commerce Times ...

"Novell has a history of stumbling when it comes to making it on the desktop," Enck told the E-Commerce Times, which made the Ximian purchase a risk. "Whether they can turn that around with Linux will be an interesting experiment to watch." Now, Enck noted, Novell will have an...

"Given the economy, those numbers show we're pretty much swimming against the tide," Zone Labs COO Irfan Salim told the E-Commerce Times. "We're proud of that achievement." ...

Ritter told the E-Commerce Times that Yahoo has found market traction with its hosted IM product and has made it clear with recent moves that it believes its product can win its share of battles with rivals AOL and Microsoft. One advantage for Yahoo is that AOL sold its own consumer product to corporations -- until recently.

"As society goes, so goes politics," Gartner vice president Christopher Baum told the E-Commerce Times. "Not only will the Internet continue to be a factor in these races, it's just going to get more and more important." ...

Heated arguments have erupted about which compressed codec -- WMA or AAC -- sounds better and about whether either one can reasonably stand up to its CD equivalent. As GartnerG2 research director Mike McGuire told the E-Commerce Times, "I don't believe that people commoditize sound the way they commoditize 99-cent music files."

Emory Lundberg, a senior network security engineer at Guardent, told the E-Commerce Times that Mimail.C is not unique, but rather uses the same methods as other worms in its category "This one appeals to those who want to see naked pictures," he said. "People click on it perha...

HP rival IBM is seeking to use the discontinuance to convince HP customers to switch to its products. In fact, IBM spokesperson Colleen Haikes called HP's move a "coup" for Big Blue, telling the E-Commerce Times that several high-profile customers already have switched to IBM servers in anticipation of the end of service support...

"Taking the traditional build approach has changed quite a bit from the 1998 and '99 time frame, when companies used to go out and buy the tools and build it themselves," Bob Werkema, product manager for IBM WebSphere Commerce, told the E-Commerce Times Although tools are avai...

Industry analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that, in essence, Microsoft has decided to use the same sort of collaborative process that the open-source community uses in developing products. He said the company took a good look at how the open-source community operates and then copied those components of the process that made sense in the context of its own business model...

IDC director Piyush Singh told the E-Commerce Times that while the Asia-Pacific marketplace took a hit over the past year from the SARS epidemic and economic slumps in some key countries, including Japan, virtually every tech company is angling for a piece of the emerging Chinese market...

Arnold Urken, a professor of political science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, told the E-Commerce Times that he founded one of the first election testing laboratories for e-voting. He also ended up closingit down "We ran into problems because the election officials di...

X10. Just the company name is enough to send some Internet users into convulsions. ...

"The services sector is where the merger has really paid off handsomely," Levitas told the E-Commerce Times. "Part of that is luck of timing, but it also says something about how well those parts fit together." ...

In part 1 of this article, "The High-Stakes World of Online Gambling," the E-Commerce Times looked at the state of the Internet betting industry and its remarkable popularity. David Carruthers, CEO of Internet gambling site BetonSports.com, told the E-Commerce Times that his site has seen meteoric growth in the last three to five years...

Mark Doll, a director of the security practice at Ernst & Young, told the E-Commerce Times that many corporations have not taken steps to become compliant with new privacy regulations, despite obvious risks. "A lot of them will believe it when they see it," he said. "It takes...