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"Clearly, they've lost their focus," IDC analyst Jonathan Gawtold the E-Commerce Times. And AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) has so many other problems that the AOL division has been temporarily lost in the shuffle. For example, in recent months, the company has found itself thesu...

IDC research manager Ned May told the E-Commerce Times that the change reflects the fact that an expected rise in demand has been pushed back. The firm previously had lowered its 2002 forecast for PC sales as well. "We anticipated demand would start to head up in the middle o...

"Employers are in no rush to hire, and apparently they are secure enough to believe they can find the talent they need for a lot less money," CEO John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. "It's the type of trend that can really hamper an economic recovery." Not all workers...

"When we talk to customers about Web services, they're very interested in it. They're doing research in it, but they're moving cautiously," Julie Giera, IT services vice president at Giga Information Group, told the E-Commerce Times "I think there is still a lack of understand...

But such outlays are necessary to nurture innovation in any company, according to IDC research director Mark Hall. He likened a business without R&D spending to a lake stocked with fish but never replenished. "You'll fish it to death, and before you know it, there won't be anything left," Hall told the E-Commerce Times...

CEO John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times that it is "impossible to tell" whether the reduced cuts indicate the start of a turnaround. "Most high-tech indicators have not shown much promise," Challenger said. "We've been surprised in the past by how quickly the numbers...

"People will pay for 'all-you-can-eat' as long as you can promise them a nonstop stream of compelling content," GartnerG2 research director PJ McNealy told the E-Commerce Times. "Right now, most entertainment companies can't deliver on that." So far, McNealy said, PC-based rol...

"The imminent arrival of 64-bit computing has been wildly exaggerated," Peter Kastner, executive vice president at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times ...

Morningstar.com analyst Mark Sellers told the E-Commerce Times that while eBay has a strong track record of profits, it has to "keep growing at a breakneck pace while improving profitability" to meet its own goals ...

"The mood has shifted away from the need to buy the latest technology just to have it, [and toward] implementation and leveraging what a company already has," Yankee Group chief research officer Brad Hecht told the E-Commerce Times. "There is much more focus on return on investment and getting something out of what has already been purchased. Our clients are asking us to help them get their investment back by using what's already in the building."

In the long run, that move will help restore investor confidence, but repeated revelations of the double standards at stock rating firms will continue to make investors wary, Dartmouth College professor Kent Womack told the E-Commerce Times. "It's going to take a long time be...

"It's too early to call them a failure," Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They have definitely been improving." If any online retailer can make sales of electronics and housewares work alongside sales of books, CDs and DVDs, Kathman added, it is Amazon."They are better than...

"We want MP4.com to do for digital video what MP3.com (whichVivendi-Universal acquired in 2001) has done for digital music,"Natasha Rabe, general manager of MP4.com, told the E-Commerce Times. "MP4.comwill be a destination, community and hosting service for amateur videohobbyists, independent filmmakers and animators, as well as apromotional platform."

The EU approval will allow the company to begin conducting business, Motorola spokesperson Ken Phillips told the E-Commerce Times StarCore spokesperson Allen Hyman told the E-Commerce Times that EU approval was the final hurdle to opening the company's doors, and that the staf...

"As we go forward in time, you're going to be seeing all kinds of transactions being done on a regular basis without a human being getting involved," Winkelbauer told the E-Commerce Times He emphasized that IBM's new technology -- which is incorporated in servers slated to be ...

Forrester Research analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times that consumer concerns about privacy continue to loom as a major hurdle to increased online spending. The research firm estimated that US$15 billion went unspent online in 2001 because of privacy fears. "...

But the market conditions that spawned Amazon no longer exist, according to Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels. "It is unlikely that any existing retailer would let you take over a [marketplace] now," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Amazon was the first selling books and music. Retailers like Barnes & Noble just didn't respond and didn't respond."

"Microsoft's flaw rate is actually much less than others, but because they are such a big company, they seem to have a lot of arrows shot at them," Aberdeen Group security analyst Jim Hurley told the E-Commerce Times ...

In this hypothetical case, what begins as a US$10 purchase becomes a repeat business relationship worth hundreds of dollars. "Shoppers that have become inherently more attached to buying goods from you are willing to trust you with their dollars for more expensive and riskier purchases," Forrester Research analyst Carrie Johnson told the E-Commerce Times...

Gartner research director Rob Batchelder told the E-Commerce Times that it is only a matter of time and intensity of investigation before some questionable practices are uncovered, particularly among dot-coms that partnered during the frenzy of 2000. "Those types of swaps and...