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Even now, although Google has launched its first national advertising campaign and bought Applied Semantics in a move many analysts say boosts its already impressive technological arsenal, it has grown largely organically, Google vice president Omid Kordestani told the E-Commerce Times...

Realize, too, that scanning software is different from intrusion-detection software (IDS), such as the freely available Snort for WiFi networks. Whereas IDS looks for patterns of unauthorized network traffic that might signal a break-in, scanners are geared toward detecting whether or not a computer's current configuration is inherently vulnerable to attack. Firas Raouf, COO of eEye Digital Security, which makes the Retina scanner product, told the E-Commerce Times that the difference is akin to symptoms versus cause...

Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technology at Keynote, told the E-Commerce Times that the Internet benefits from the fact that telecommunications has long been considered a critical part of the nation's infrastructure "All major providers have good data backups because telcos ...

"XP is a desktop operating system, and Microsoft has more than 90 percent of that market," IDC analyst Jonathan Gaw told the E-Commerce Times. "It faces virtually no threat in the PC client OS market, from Linux or anyone else." Gaw added what he would do if he ran Microsoft: ...

"Dell is a very efficient company," IDC analyst Roger Kay told the E-Commerce Times. "Even though overall [industry] market share is relatively sluggish, it is getting pretty decent numbers on the backs of its competitors." ...

Aberdeen Group analyst Bill Claybrook said Sun must strike quickly to capture an emerging market, although concerns about Linux, which stem from a spate of lawsuits and countersuits being filed by SCO and its opponents, might complicate the situation. "There are a certain number of people who are actively seeking an alternative," Claybrook told the E-Commerce Times. "And there may be some for whom security is a major driver."

"Every time another event that raises doubt comes along, it makes the whole outcome all the less certain," Gartner analyst Betsy Burton told the E-Commerce Times. The fact that Justice Department regulators have asked for more information about the Oracle takeover is a major ...

Debbie Jaffe, GSA product manager at Google, told the E-Commerce Times that she believes several factors have contributed to the GSA's success, most notably its capability for quick deployment "It is automated [and] ready to use out of the box," Jaffe said. "You plug it into y...

"Spam's certainly been a hot topic," Yesmail account executive Sheehan Murphy told the E-Commerce Times. "Some of our customers are worried at first about being lumped in [with spammers], but they also know that people have asked to get these e-mails, they want to receive these offers. It's entirely up to the client how they run their campaign. Once they hear that, they feel morecomfortable." ...

The e-commerce landscape may have changed dramatically in recentyears, but both pure-play e-tailers and multichannel retailers arestill focused on finding ways to convert more surfers to buyers, accordingto keynote addresses and interviews at the eTail2003 conference in Boston, where E-Commerce Times reporter Keith Regan is on the scene...

"At one time, people had proprietary algorithms. The theory was if nobody knew how it worked, nobody could break it," IDC research director of security products Charles Kolodgy told the E-Commerce Times. "Now people want to know what the algorithm is to make sure it's secure. The standard everyone uses in the Americas is Triple Data Encryption. Standard DES, at 56 bits, isn't strong enough today."

"The strategy recognizes that it's going to take more than simply rolling out products to get consumers to buy," Levitas told the E-Commerce Times. "They're trying to address the whole experience, from buying to support and integration with the computer equipment they already have."

As the latest, most compact iteration of server technology, blades are becoming increasingly popular. "We see unit sales of blade servers ramping up pretty strongly," Mark Melenovsky, an analyst at research firm IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. Although blade servers currently represent just 1 or 2 percent of total server market share, Melenovsky said he believes they will capture 20 percent or more of server unit sales by 2007. Therefore, CIOs and others in a position to purchase servers need to take blade servers seriously. What do IT buyers need to know about these cutting-edge products?...

At the end of 2002, there were more than 16.4 million residential broadband subscribers in the United States, according to Yankee Group analyst Michael Goodman. He told the E-Commerce Times that this number will swell rapidly. By 2007, he predicted, there will be 48 million U.S. subscribers...

"Even the fastest-growing Internet companies need to find new growth markets to replace the meteoric growth here at home," Nielsen//NetRatings senior analyst Lisa Strand told the E-Commerce Times. "I think you'll see the battles happening all over the map." Indeed, eBay recent...

"While I was in school, my class saw everything from the boom, to the Enron scandal, to the recent economic downturn," said Tera Ferguson, a recent graduate of Duke University. She told the E-Commerce Times, "From one perspective, it's disappointing. But it focuses you." Fergu...

In fact, IBM (NYSE: IBM) spokesperson Rick Bause told the E-Commerce Times that the drive to develop next-generation development tools and processes will benefit the entire industry. He said the deal between Big Blue and the two other companies represents a global push. Chartered is based in Singapore and supported by the Singaporean government, while Infineon makes its headquarters in Munich, Germany.

Citrix is not standing still amid competition. The company recently launched MetaFrame XP Presentation Server, Feature Release 3, for Windows, as well as MetaFrame Presentation Server 1.2 for Unix. Certified to run on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers, the XP release gives administrators more control than previous versions, Nason told the E-Commerce Times. It also includes a universal print driver and browser acceleration, which can improve the user experience for interactive applications...

Sun spokeswoman Marie Domingo told the E-Commerce Times that several enterprise-level tests of Project Mad Hatter are under way and that Sun plans to have an early version of the package available by the end of the year She said the company has received positive feedback on th...

Forrester analyst Noha Tohamy told the E-Commerce Times that dynamic pricing enables a business to respond to a customer's request for quotes on the basis of real-time supply-and-demand information. Such data can be invaluable when trying to reconfigure prices "Demand informat...