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"We've been aware from day one of the restrictions placed on bookselling and respected them as we set up," Amazon spokesperson Patty Smith told the E-Commerce Times. "We believe our venture is a positive for Canadian consumers and the publishing industry in Canada." ...

"In some sense, we now have a Big Three in computing," Forrester Research analyst Carl Howe told the E-Commerce Times ...

If every cloud has a silver lining, is the reverse also true? It is for Jonathan F. Miller. On Tuesday, he landed what once would have been -- and might still be -- one of the world's great jobs. He now heads America Online ...

"Historically, retail typically is a laggard when it comes to IT spending," IDC senior analyst Christopher Boone told the E-Commerce Times. "They're always fighting against tight margins." Still, Boone said, leading retailers are expected to shell out IT dollars to improve cu...

"Webvan pursued a warehouse fulfillment model and failed," Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times. "Albertson's and Safeway are finding success with an in-store fulfillment model." ...

"The more investments these holding companies made, the more likely they are to be hurting now," US Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior analyst Safa Rashtchy told the E-Commerce Times. "They grabbed them like mad on the way up and then discovered they couldn't get rid of them fast enough."

Everyone knows that stock investments are long-term propositions, that if you buy and hold, you are more likely than not to see better returns from Wall Street than from your neighborhood bank ...

"This is a strategic move by Yahoo! to position itself in the event that mobile commerce becomes something really significant in Europe," Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times. "But I don't see it as a near-term generator of new revenues for them."

There is good reason to worry. As U.S. citizens have learned, identity theft is a growing problem and is "apparently getting worse," Eric Hemmendinger, a security analyst at the Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times. In fact, identity theft accounted for 42 percent of the...

Dan Kusnetzky, IDC's vice president of system software, told the E-Commerce Times that at one time there were about 300 market research firms examining some area of information technology products or services. Today, there are significantly fewer The main reason that Internet ...

"The media players that have been successful in charging for content are the ones that fill a niche market," Yankee Group analyst Lisa Melsted told the E-Commerce Times But analysts said it is a different story altogether for media groups that offer generic content that can be...

"We're not seeing that in other areas," CEO John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. "It's a sign of just how volatile this sector still is, even after all the shaking out that took place." ...

"People are looking more at what's the deal," Yankee Group analyst Rob Perry told the E-Commerce Times. The emphasis is "more on price and less about the experience." Giant online retailers like Amazon.com clearly have gotten that message from their customers. The online merch...

"NAS is an emerging area," Anders told the E-Commerce Times. "There is a lot of opportunity there for Veritas." ...

A PurchasePro spokesperson declined to respond to the E-Commerce Times' inquiries, but the software company has noted that its management has changed since the deals were consummated, and that the company is cooperating with investigators. ...

Aberdeen Group analyst Kent Allen told the E-Commerce Times that new e-commerce technologies are emerging to address critical issues, such as distributed order management and support for merchandising processes While up-selling and cross-selling were key focuses in phase one, ...

"This is not exactly a shock, because the Butterfields experiment never really worked out the way eBay hoped," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "EBay has outgrown Butterfields, now that they dominate online auctions so thoroughly, and has ambit...

Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman called Pressplay 2.0 "a big step in the right direction," telling the E-Commerce Times that it addresses "some of the major weaknesses" that existed in the service before. Goodman noted that while Pressplay users were able to burn CDs before, users were severely limited in the scope of what they could do.

A year ago this month, Webvan called it quits. If it seems like the shutdown happened earlier than that, it might be because the company was on the way out for months before its final exit. Or it might be that, in the big picture, Webvan just didn't matter that much ...

The high end requires multiple CPUs and can be much more expensive, Andrew Bartels, an analyst with Giga Information Group, told the E-Commerce Times ...