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"There's a significant amount of retail being influenced by the Web, butthere's not a lot of final transactions happening online," Bob Parker,senior vice president at AMR Research, told the E-Commerce Times Some companies, such as Circuit City, Best Buy and Sears, are trying t...

"EBay remains in rapid growth mode," US Bancorp Piper Jaffray vice president and senior research analyst Safa Rashtchy told the E-Commerce Times. "There were a lot of skeptics who said they couldn't sustain it, but so far, they've proved them wrong." ...

Morgan Stanley analyst Mark Edelstone told the E-Commerce Times that Intel has been able to improve its internal cost structure so much during the current chip slump that it is poised to benefit from any increase in demand. But rival AMD announced a sweeping deal with IBM last week to develop next-generation processors, ratcheting up the level of competition and indicating that Intel also must continue to invest in future products.

"They've done a good job of staying focused on the future, but it has to get easier every time another obstacle is set aside," Giga Information Group analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "The fact that you see Microsoft behaving aggressively to gain market share in new areas points out that they still are in a battle."

"This has been in the works for six months," UBS Warburg analyst Christopher Dixon told the E-Commerce Times, referring to Case's exit. He pointed to difficulties that AOL and Time Warner encountered in integrating their corporate cultures -- which took longer than anyone anticipated -- and said many Time Warner executives had felt slighted by the merger...

"Are many e-tailers dead? Yes. Is e-commerce alive and thriving? Yes. That's thedistinction. You really have to separate the two," GartnerG2 research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times ...

"It's far too early to forecast a turnaround in the job market," Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman agreed, telling the E-Commerce Times that such games as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Grand Theft Auto propelled PlayStation2 sales during the 2002 holiday shopping season "You're in a period now where, to a large extent, games sell cons...

On paper, Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) appears to be one of the hottest tech companies around. Propelled in part by users' need to defend against a rash of destructive and well-publicized computer worms like Code Red, Nimda and SirCam, its stock price has jumped 70 percent in the past year. Nonetheless, leading industry experts seem to be far from enamored with the company. Some stock analysts have even responded by placing sell or hold ratings on Symantec, while others question the company's ability to compete successfully in some of its most important markets. Another leading analyst stated that Symantec may have recently squandered nearly a billion dollars on the acquisition of a related company whose technology is a "non-factor" in today's market. In Part I of this investigative report series, the E-Commerce Times goes beyond the headlines to find out what industry insiders really think of Symantec, and why so many are concerned about its future...

IDC analyst David Daoud told the E-Commerce Times that Gateway faces not only a sluggish PC market that is expected to pick up only slightly in 2003, but also the danger of losing market share to competitors that are better able to slash prices. "In this environment, the abil...

"Shipping costs are clearly a barrier to some shoppers, and it's no coincidence that shopping activity has increased as they have been lowered," Nielsen//NetRatings director and chief analyst Lisa Strand told the E-Commerce Times. Strand also noted that much of this year's ea...

Mike McClaskey, chief information officer at Perot Systems (NYSE: PER), told the E-Commerce Times that security measures like biometrics, which can provide information about who accesses data, and why and when they do so, are expensive and complex to implement for most corporations. Therefore, major investments in such technology are an unlikely prospect at a time when flat or slowly growing IT budgets are the rule, he added.

Also last summer, in a precursor of the banner ban, Ask Jeeves replaced its run-of-site banner ads with search-specific banners, Bishop told the E-Commerce Times Because banner ads make up less than 5 percent of the company's revenue, according to Bishop, Ask Jeeves saw the op...

One growing trend is that more employees are working remotely, rather than at corporate headquarters. Therefore, today's firewalls, though built to guard against remote access, must also be sophisticated enough to allow the right kinds of remote access, Yankee Group network security analyst Eric Ogren told the E-Commerce Times...

"A lot of outside factors will play into how quickly the market recovers, but for venture-backed firms, it's probably going to take a bit longer," NVCA vice president Jeanne Metzger told the E-Commerce Times. "Those firms tend to be more high-tech and speculative, so it's going to take time for them to get the traction they need to become profitable."

David Alschuler, senior vice president of e-business and enterpriseapplications at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times that the VC market is especially tough for pure-play startups, "even if they have good ideas." "The market has matured very quickly, and either people h...

"It blew away our expectations," Johnson told the E-Commerce Times. "We hadforecasted a little bit lower, just to be conservative, because of the economy.But the strong Q4 and Q1 helped bring up sales higher than most expected." Johnson said strong sales in the first quarter o...

Even so, shoppers are not worried enough to close their wallets. "Consumers are definitely concerned, but they're also apparently ready to take some degree of risk," Gartner research director Richard Mogull told the E-Commerce Times One problem for many consumers is that they ...

"Holiday sales this year were below expectations," World Semiconductor Trade Statistics Americas vice chairman Bill Jewell told the E-Commerce Times. "I don't think we'll see even the normal seasonality we see in the fourth quarter and December." ...

"The same scams that worked four years ago won't work today," FTC spokeswoman Andrea Foster told the E-Commerce Times. "The online scam has evolved ... to a point where it's not always just the gullible who are falling prey." But that is not to say that simple ploys are not still being operated on the Web...