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John Sarsgard, vice president of worldwide Linux sales at IBM, told theE-Commerce Times that Linux is indicative of the kind of passionneeded in the tech arena, and that is why it will succeed "Linux is an operating system that reflects intelligence and energy," hesaid. "Nothi...

U.S. Census Bureau spokesperson Carol King told the E-Commerce Times that the data is based on a survey of some 11,000 U.S. retailers and is subject to revision and adjustment based on seasonal changes. "We often make adjustments, but it's unlikely to have any material impact...

Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft can afford to discount its products, particularly if the company is confident its product will perform well enough to lock in customers. "They can always hike the licensing prices later, but lowe...

I won't say I don't receive pitches for the occasional mortgage discount or Vegas vacation, the latest performance-enhancing elixir or anatomical wonder pills. Somehow those untidy and still slightly amusing offenders still wriggle past my defenses. In general, though, I've had good results with a built-in spam stopper in Apple Computer's Mail program, which I've used daily since it was released with the Jaguar update of OS X last year. Amid the frantic hand-wringing over unwanted e-mail, I've heard relatively little mention of this program, so I thought I'd offer my impressions gleaned from nearly 10 months of using the product.

The original concept of a B2B exchange involved an intermediary company that created a marketplace to match buyers to suppliers, create market liquidity, balance supply and demand, and reduce the cost of trading for partners. When this concept took the business world by storm in 1999, Butler told the E-Commerce Times, everyone believed an exchange could enter a US$50 billion industry and take a 1 percent cut of every transaction -- producing an instant $500 million per year in revenue.

Imagine this: You're driving along, say, five miles an hour above the posted speed, when you see flashing blue lights in your rearview mirror. You stop, and as you hand your license and registration to the police officer, you notice a bank robbery occurring across the street. ...

"They're hitting or even surpassing a lot of the targets," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "The enterprise business has to remain a concern, however, since that was what was driving the merger in many people's eyes." The company's enterprise sales unit...

Despite this and other new technology, there are sins of omission. For example, although Microsoft has focused heavily on its home-brewed Passport techology for transmitting users' personal data, it has failed to actively support Security Assertions Markup Languages, or SAML, an XML standard designed to perform the same function. That makes collaborating with non-Passport systems tricky. "Microsoft says you can pass SAML information between machines, but that's not the same as Windows actually being able to use SAML," Gartner analyst John Pescatore told the E-Commerce Times...

It's getting crowded in here. The U.S. Congress is filling up with laws designed to fight spam, and the jail holding mobster Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, who's serving a 12-year sentence for racketeering in New York, soon could be filling up with spammers. Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) has introduced legislation that would make sending unwanted mass e-mail a racketeering offense, up there with the numbers game and extortion, and open to fines and jail time under the RICO act that landed Gigante in prison.

"This enables an organization to speak to all employees at once and ensure a consistent message and voice," Levitt told the E-Commerce Times. Instead of traditional means of communicating policy or company decisions, e-mail offers a two-way line of communication that can boos...

However, Jim McDonnell, vice president of marketing and sales for HP's personal systems group, told the E-Commerce Times that the new HP has no plans to back down even a little bit "We think there is a lot of opportunity in this space going forward, and we're going to continue...

Gartner analyst Peter Kjeldsen told the E-Commerce Times that broadband will be crucial to the health of the telecom sector, largely because high-speed online access will become a cornerstone of a business model that derives multiple revenue streams from online consumers "The ...

Keynote examines the 40 most popular sites in four categories -- portal/search, e-shopping, brokerage and travel -- and measures the average dial-up download time for their homepages. Roopak Patel, product manager at Keynote, told the E-Commerce Times that he often gets calls from companies that did not make the cut and want to tap into Keynote's consulting expertise...

"With the overall market weak, Dell's model starts to stand out more and more," IDC analyst Roger Kay told the E-Commerce Times. "Theyre able to keep costs down for their customers without denting the bottom line." Dell can leverage its low-cost, streamlined direct sales model...

"It was an interesting trend," IDC analyst Sophie Mayo told the E-Commerce Times. "Some people forget that it was a big driver for e-commerce, and that's why it hasn't really disappeared." She noted that in her own surfing and shopping experience, she often comes upon affiliat...

"Companies gravitate to online supply purchasing when they see it has real benefits for them," Forrester Research analyst Jim Nail told the E-Commerce Times So, what is the best way for aspiring B2B exchange founders to go about building a hub? Experts say it is okay to dream ...

It has now been more than a year since Hewlett-Packard and Compaq merged. It's been nearly two years since the idea of the deal was made public. ...

Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that there have always been enterprises that have sought to resist Microsoft, but most find few alternatives that are as well developed as the software giant's products "The reason they got to be the biggest in the first ...

Although similar events have not been planned yet, AOL senior vice president of commerce Patrick Gates told the E-Commerce Times that the reaction from merchants and customers alike ensures there will be more promotions in the future "It was something we did to help our partne...

I'm willing to bet it's a relevant statistic of the software industry that somewhere, at any given time, some poor schmo's Web browser is crashing. It doesn't matter if you use Mozilla, iCab, the latest version of IE or some other hunk of code: Sooner or later you'll run across an errant page that brings the whole shining mess down upon itself. Browsers are still rather flaky pieces of software, perpetually sprouting features while what lies beneath remains a tottering mess.