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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...

PC shipments grew nearly 16 percent in the third quarter compared with the same time frame in 2002, Loverde told the E-Commerce Times, driven largely by sales of notebook computers. That trend, which saw sales power past forecasts by more than 5 percent, likely will continue through the end of the year, providing the PC industry with a welcome boost.

"Over the last few years, the market was not interested in what people were doing with e-commerce," BroadVision founder, CEO and president Pehong Chen told the E-Commerce Times. "IT spending was horrible, and the whole world became somewhat ignorant of the great things that were being accomplished on the Web."

Goguen told the E-Commerce Times that Apple is a big fan of open standards and of technology originating from the open-source community. He said he believes that in the latest iteration of its OS, Apple has taken the best technology from the open-source world and has provided the sort of integration that will offer users all the tools they need in a single package...

"There are a couple of IPOs that would get people excited, and Google is one of them," Morningstar.com stock analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. "But as always, a company looks good when it can say it's profitable and growing and that's it. Once people start to have financials to dig through, that enthusiasm could either go higher or be dampened."

"For the most part, organizations are blind to it," Forrester analyst Michael Rasmussen told the E-Commerce Times. "They focus on viruses and don't think about the danger that spyware represents. Because of this, I think it'll get worse before it gets better." What can compani...

Industry analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft's efforts to open its source code do not necessarily represent a shift in the software giant's corporate culture, even though Microsoft has made it clear in internal memos that have been made public that it sees open-source software, such as Linux, as a major competitive threat...

"There's a good buzz in the industry right now," Nielsen//NetRatings senior analyst Greg Bloom told the E-Commerce Times. Whether that buzz will turn into blockbuster business is another question. Bloom noted that MLB.com, which recently began offering a host of paid content,...

"From a pure feature standpoint, [Office 2003] has not changed much," Meta Group analyst Steve Kleynhans told the E-Commerce Times. "There is a long list of subtle enhancements, and Microsoft has polished up a few more things, but most people using Office XP will be somewhat underwhelmed by new version."

"Amazon needs to keep growing its customer base and its order size in order to get to where it can consistently show a profit," Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. While the company's price cuts and free shipping on orders of more than $25 have helped rekindle growth in the co...

Indeed, to move up the IT career ladder, employees must do work that is profitable and be willing to take risks, Hunter Newby, chief strategy officer of Telx, told the E-Commerce Times. Newby performs the functions of a traditional CIO by managing information services at the privately held company...

"Apple's big advantage is the base of iPod users," Bernoff told the E-Commerce Times. "Beyond that, Apple hasn't had much success making inroads into the Windows world in other areas, and I don't know if this is going to be much different." ...

These and other major events have hammered the economy into a new form that is not exactly beautiful. Despite these low points, however, Prudential Securities market analyst Larry Wachtel told the E-Commerce Times that what is happening now is merely part of the ebb and flow of every economic period...

However, Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told the E-Commerce Times that the RIAA's method of quelling unauthorized file-sharing is not cost-effective, at least in the short term "It's fair to say that they're losing money on this," she s...

"Our whole mission is to organize the world's information," said Google spokesperson Nate Tyler. He told the E-Commerce Times that the company is constantly optimizing its systems to improve its search capability Beyond that, Google increasingly has targeted enterprise custome...

"Currently, only about 55 percent of antivirus customers have a firewall installed," James Schmidt, product manager for the McAfee Personal Firewall (MPF) product at McAfee Security, told the E-Commerce Times. This figure is troubling, considering that it takes into account only people who already have purchased antivirus software. In other words, these are the people who are concerned about Internet security. Statistics among the larger population of all Internet users likely are far more dismal...

Gartner principal analyst Ted Chamberlin told the E-Commerce Times that Network Solutions, which VeriSign purchased in 2000, has been dragging down the company's revenues; therefore, divesting this domain-name service makes sense. Because of the present economic climate, he said, Pivotal was able to acquire Network Solutions for pennies on the dollar...

However, IDC vice president Dan Kusnetzky told the E-Commerce Times that SCO faces brutal competition in the Web services arena. Also, he said, while the company has had limited success in convincing companies to purchase licenses rather than face legal action, it has a long road ahead of it.

However, as IDC vice president Dan Kusnetzky told the E-Commerce Times, the legal costs SCO is incurring make its litigation business model (as IBM termed it in a recently filed countersuit) a risky one. Resolution could be years away, and there is no guarantee of an outcome that favors SCO...

John A. Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times that IBM's latest news fits with other signs that information technology hiring could pick up next year. "The numbers are definitely heading in a positive direction," Challeng...