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Aberdeen senior vice president Hugh Bishop told the E-Commerce Times that the research firm's forecast heralds a very slow turn upward in the fortunes of those who sell IT products and services "It's not a lot right now, but it's a much better picture than what we were seeing ...

Rob Perry, an analyst with The Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that "overall spending has not rebounded and is not on the way up." He noted that, within enterprises, "there are still a lot of past purchases" to be dealt with Sun's CFO noted that he does not expect a "s...

"In general, companies have moved away from an online strategy that was in many cases uneconomic and opportunistic to a business model that is economically sustainable," Boston Consulting Group analyst Simon Stephenson told the E-Commerce Times Changes can be seen across the W...

Giga Information Group analyst Lisa Pierce told the E-Commerce Times that given the way the probe is unfolding, she believes the WorldCom fraud scheme was a "tightly wrapped" effort executed by a few key players Indeed, the indictment noted that Sullivan and Yates, along with ...

Forrester analyst Carrie A. Johnson told the E-Commerce Times that growth will be spurred by "late-blooming" categories that have yet to establish a foothold online and therefore have more room to grow. Meanwhile, the number of U.S. households shopping online will nearly doub...

"For that person who's never been online, it might be a good place to start," Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li told the E-Commerce Times. "But once a Web user gets some experience, they immediately demand more." ...

It's one of those stories that everyone loves to tell. EBay, as the legend goes, became a billion-dollar global powerhouse after starting off as a place where Pierre Omidyar's wife could sell and buy Pez dispensers ...

"When domestic growth slowed down, companies looked overseas for the next infusion of new customers and revenue," Lisa Strand, director and senior analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings, told the E-Commerce Times. "It hasn't worked in some places, but that's often for cultural reasons."

"HP still has a lot to do in terms of explaining where all their products fit," Perry told the E-Commerce Times. "They've done a pretty good job in laying it out, but it's a big job." Beyond hardware, the merged company must leverage and extend its core software assets to rema...

Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman told the E-Commerce Times that it is long past time "to separate the business from the personal." He also called the SEC a "paper tiger" whose investigative operation "has no teeth." But in recent weeks, the commission has taken a more aggress...

Well, that pretty much does it. Amazon has to be done slashing its free-shipping threshold. Going from US$99 to $49 made sense, and the move from $49 to $25 is logical, too. But thats the end of the road. ...

As it turns out, charging customers for access to content or services seems not to be such a bad move after all. Giga Information Group research fellow Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that although no company can be called a true success at collecting Internet fees, some firms have paved the way...

"Is it a trend? It's too early to tell," CEO John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. "There is certainly the potential for us to see more cuts for the rest of the year, as companies that survived the dot-com collapse are struggling to survive the overall downturn in the economy."

Mark Peacock, an analyst at Deloitte Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times that in recent months, users seem to have become more tolerant of cookies because of the convenience that they afford by eliminating the need to remember usernames and passwords But Giga Information Gro...

"Consumers have been responding to these promotions quite favorably," Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. "Cheaper shipping has helped spark sales. Amazon is trying to find a delicate balance between luring those potential customers with the need to protect margins. After all, Amazon has to eat up that shipping cost."

But Toshiba's approach gives the company a significant advantage. AsAberdeen Group research directorRuss Craig told the E-Commerce Times: "The Toshiba format is backward-compatible, unlike theindustry consortium format. So Toshiba-NEC have analyzed the market requirement better...

"The fact that has been borne out over time is that this medium remains very powerful," Rosendorf told the E-Commerce Times in a recent interview. "That simple fact has kept shoppers coming back time after time." ...

"I'd say the good news for this industry would be that it's one of those rareindustries that might be considered recession-proof, sort of like the liquorindustry," Maclachlan told the E-Commerce Times Even as people cancel health club memberships and curtail trips to movie the...

"In addition," Gopalan told the E-Commerce Times, "the overbuild in the late 1990s has caused slowdown in manufacturing across the board -- telecom equipment, avionics, professional electronics -- all of these use chips and this slowing of manufacturing is another primary reason for the U.S. market slump." ...

"The numbers were stunning," Mogull told the E-Commerce Times. "Consumers are concerned, and it could come to the point where it inhibits e-business." ...