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"The company did nothing to communicate the value proposition of the online channel over the other channels," Answerthink managing director William DuPont told the E-Commerce Times. "Ultimately, they wasted their money." ...

"Senator Burns feels that ICANN has exceeded its authority," Jennifer O'Shea, a spokesperson from the senator's office, told the E-Commerce Times. "Unless it allows the government to take more of a role in managing, it may be stripped of its authority." ...

Trends are often difficult to get a handle on, especially those that gauge consumersentiment. The best you can hope for is a snapshot of a moment in time, and people havea tendency to change their minds without notice ...

Cisco's new security features represent a move by the company to differentiate itself from the competition, Gartner Dataquest senior analyst Lawrence Orans told the E-Commerce Times Dell presents perhaps the biggest threat to Cisco's switch business. The PC giant is introducin...

Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon probably escaped without too much damage to its reputation. In fact, a separate SEC inquiry into the way Amazon accounted for revenue in some of its partnership deals, namely its Amazon Commerce Netwo...

Such deals are potential revenue-generators for ISPs. They also underscore the notion that Internet access is "a must-have utility for the mass consumer market," Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget told the E-Commerce Times in an earlier interview ...

"The travel space has definitely shown a tremendous rebound since September 11th," US Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior analyst Safa Rashtchy told the E-Commerce Times ...

Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon has a strong track record of testing new features to discover what customers want. For instance, the free shipping offer unveiled earlier this year has been deemed a success to date, and Amazon said l...

"Everybody is building their infrastructure to support services," Yankee Group senior analyst Robert Perry told the E-Commerce Times. "If Novell is going to do something, now is certainly the time." Novell is competing with some heavy-hitting infrastructure companies in this g...

Recent controversy over the release of the first Harry Potter DVD underscores the problems and limitations of conducting transactions over the Internet, Yankee Group analyst Rob Perry told the E-Commerce Times. The movie was to be released in the United Kingdom first, but wiz...

What does this waffling mean? Yankee Group analyst Robert Perry told the E-Commerce Times that HP wants to be like IBM, with end-to-end solutions, but cannot decide what its middleware offering should be On the one hand, HP has a legacy relationship with Microsoft via its merg...

ComScore spokesperson Dan Hess told the E-Commerce Times that despite the purchase price, the move represents a "dramatically greater investment on our part" as the company is taking on employees and opening a New York office. ComScore also will take over some existing Media Metrix contracts, according to the deal...

"Is this a rebound? No," IDC research analyst Alan Promisel told the E-Commerce Times when the results were released. "But it is a barometer for some growth." Intel is recovering from dismal showings last year and the year before. In a conference call at the time of the Q1 ea...

"It's interesting that they would pan it," Morningstar.com stock analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. "Often, a move like this would help the stock because investors dislike complex companies. We've seen that with companies like AOL, which have a bunch of smaller firms under them. With too many subsidiaries, a company can be hard to value."

"Making a connection is a basic human need, no different than food or water," Michael Schutzler, president and CEO of Classmates.com, told the E-Commerce Times. "People need to connect with other people." ...

"It's just a strong indication that consumers aren't slowing down online spending and consumers aren't going to go anywhere," Yankee Group analyst Rob Lancaster told the E-Commerce Times ...

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, making its value difficult to judge, Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times "I'm sure the acquisition will drive some additional traffic for Priceline," Kathman said. "I don't imagine Priceline had to pay an exorbi...

If this were 1999, last week's Overstock.com IPO would have been considered an outright disaster. The online discount e-tailer's stock moved up a whopping 2 cents and has since returned to its US$13 offering price. ...

Love told the E-Commerce Times that the letter was the advocacy group's opening volley. He said the group's new focus on government procurement could significantly change how software is purchased by federal agencies and could influence competition in the market "The governmen...

"The ability to access content with a wireless device is only so valuable. Often, the user will want to act on that information," Yankee Group senior analyst of wireless and mobile services Adam Zawel told the E-Commerce Times. "The main attraction of Wireless Rebidding is that ability to transact."