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Orbitz spokesperson Stacey Spencer told the E-Commerce Times that the company welcomes a more speedy resolution to the ongoing investigations. "We're confident in the outcome," Spencer said. "We just want the inquiries to run their course without undue political influence." Sp...

"Version 8.0 helps AOL competitively match against its competitors on a features checklist," Giga Information Group analyst Ken Smiley told the E-Commerce Times. "Customers don't have to go elsewhere looking for a specific feature." One such feature is parental controls, desig...

Pascal Matzke, a senior analyst at Giga Information Group, told the E-Commerce Times that the acquisition is "actually a good match" that will give IBM a strong position in high-end projects against the likes of EDS and Accenture. Matzke also pointed out that the deal likely will have long-term ramifications, particularly for IBM competitors Hewlett-Packard and Sun.

"All of its competitors are trying to beat Dell at Dell's own game," Aberdeen Group chief research officer Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times But Kastner said rivals have found it hard to top Dell's strategy, which entails cutting costs by keeping inventory low and preven...

"This is a cyclical industry that will have its shares of ups and downs," NVCA president Mark Heesen told the E-Commerce Times. "The important thing is that funding continues to flow to good companies. Everyone recognizes this is a time period that's going to require more patience."

Maybe it's only a coincidence, but not long after televisions flashed images of Adelphia Communications executives being taken away in handcuffs, the stock market began its most impressive single-day rally in recent memory ...

Gartner analyst Mark Driver told the E-Commerce Times that the transition to .NET is not a question of if, but when. ".NET is the very beginning foundation, the building blocks on which Microsoft will base virtually its entire corporate strategy over the next five to 10 years...

"We had lots of low-end Internet edge servers purchased in the dot-com bubble and in anticipation of Y2K," Kastner told the E-Commerce Times. "Those servers that are apt to be replaced next year [will be replaced] with blade servers costing only a couple of thousand dollars, which have five to 10 times the processing capacity [of older servers]."

"I think most Web retailers are interested in getting more shoppers to think of using the Web for back-to-school, at least in part," Forrester Research analyst Carrie Johnson told the E-Commerce Times. "All of the attention has traditionally been on the end-of-the-year holidays, and this is a period that sometimes gets overlooked online."

"The real challenge here is that the pace of change has been so fast," Smedinghoff told the E-Commerce Times. "It's a situation where it really can change overnight, and attorneys will need to keep up with this." ...

"The more exposure some of these holdings companies have, the more likely they are to be getting hit hard now," US Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior analyst Safa Rashtchy told the E-Commerce Times. "For every successful company in a portfolio, there seem to be at least five or six dogs that have to be written off -- and that gets expensive."

Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala told the E-Commerce Times that the Ayr acquisition is a smart move for Cisco "Certainly, there have been some competing high-performance routers coming up of late," said Kerravala. "Juniper took a big chunk of Cisco's business by coming up w...

"Ever heard of the Constitution and that little amendment about illegal search and seizure?" Michael Goodman, an analyst with the Yankee Group, said in an interview with the E-Commerce Times While Goodman said he "wouldn't put it past Congress to pass such a bill," he believes...

"You have to look at the bigger players," Giga Information Group research fellow Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "For example, Microsoft remains a solid firm that's outperforming everybody. That's a pretty solid investment." Enderle also noted that Dell has kept its he...

In what is becoming an all-too-familiar occurrence, the SEC has opened an inquiry into "how AOL booked some of its earnings," Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman told the E-Commerce Times The company has had its share of problems in 2002, with poor financials in the first quarte...

FTC spokeswoman Brenda Mack told the E-Commerce Times that those additional sites will be monitored for compliance going forward and that action will be taken where it is warranted "A lot of the enforcement actions are the result of consumer complaints, but we are also doing m...

"I would not be surprised if you saw some of the minnows merge or get swallowed up by some of the bigger players," Furlonger told the E-Commerce Times ...

Somebody had to do it. One of the surviving e-commerce giants had to take the stand and be the first to start accounting for stock options as expenses, which is exactly what they are ...

And Brian Croll, Apple's senior director of software product marketing, told the E-Commerce Times that iChat "is compatible with the whole AIM network." In fact, Croll said, Apple has built myriad features around its IM effort, including conversation bubbles and "cartoon stuff...

"Amazon has done a pretty good job of reinvigorating its growth withouthurting its profits too much," David Kathman, an analyst withMorningstar.com, told the E-Commerce Times In the heyday of e-commerce, the company was focused primarily on getting asmany customers as possible...