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"[Many e-tailers] need to redesign their sites to makethe shopping experience more intuitive," Meta Groupsenior program manager Gene Alvarez told theE-Commerce Times. "This includes improved searchcapabilities, visualization tools and the integrationof multiple [sales] channels.

"It is unusual for a public-private-sector partnershipto work as well as this one did," roundtablechairperson and iFormation Group CEO DavidPecaut told the E-Commerce Times. "We havedramatically changed the e-business environment inCanada." Overall, officials of the public-pri...

"If you're looking to build a site for under $1,000, you're not going to get the most whiz-bang technology," Giga Information Group analyst Steve Telleen told the E-Commerce Times. "You're basically just looking to get your product out there." ...

Riddle time: What do Girl Scout cookies, snow blower parts and a US$2 million waterfront home have in common? ...

Instead of eliciting wows -- mostly on the part of its promoters -- analysts told the E-Commerce Times that online commerce is showing concrete results, thanks to a multichannel array of ways to reach consumers "The problem is that you can only hold on to the wow factor for so...

What recession? That is what you will hear from somee-tailers if you ask them how they have fared inrecent months ...

But GartnerG2 research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times that the true impact of the promotion remains unclear "It's tough to judge how big a bump it is when all they'll talk about is percentages," he said. "Without knowing the numbers underneath, it's impossible...

"You can't be serious!" The trademark quip of tennistantrum artist John McEnroe leapt from my lips uponfirst hearing of travel Goliath Sabre's (NYSE: TSG) plan to buy outTravelocity (Nasdaq: TVLY) ...

"It's bad enough that the lack of real privacystandards put the burden on users to figure out whattheir privacy exposure is at each site," DavidMartin, principal investigator of the PrivacyFoundation, told the E-Commerce Times. "EBay's proposed change was tantamount to saying...

In a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times, Orbitz general counsel Gary Doernhoefer said the site welcomes the increased scrutiny. "Unfortunately, competitors continue to wage a well-funded campaign against Orbitz in an effort to snuff out new competition," Doernhoefer s...

"I would not be surprised to find that the majority ofonline retailers are profitable now, if you includemultichannel retailers," Jupiter Media Metrix analystKen Cassar told the E-Commerce Times. "If you justfocus on the pure-plays, we may be a year or two awayfrom a profitable majority."

"I think EBay has proven that there's nothing that can't be sold online," IDC analyst Jonathon Gaw told the E-Commerce Times. "You really can sell anything online -- it's a matter of whether you can implement the infrastructure and price structure to make a profit off of it." ...

"Voice is still very important to the ways SMBsconduct communications," Yankee Group analyst HelenChan told the E-Commerce Times. "But from afunctioning and productivity standpoint, they tend toview the Internet as more productive." In comparison, just 49 percent of broadband ...

"The task of updating content is high work and smallreward," Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartelstold the E-Commerce Times. "So, the volume ofout-of-date online content will grow out of momentum." Indeed, as a percentage of the ever-expanding mass of Internet content,...

Isn't it great to see a new round of online grocery battles breaking out? No one is more hopeful than I that the outcome will be different this time. But is that just wishful thinking? ...

Despite the fact that e-commerce had a relatively slowmonth in February, Jupiter Media Metrix analyst MainakMazumdar told the E-Commerce Times that e-tailers have no cause for concern "E-commerce is still a robust area. People are buyingand shopping," Mazumdar said. He noted t...

"I can totally believe that Toys 'R' Us is not happy with their Amazon deal, because they are not the only partner to express displeasure with Amazon," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. Amazon shares fell more than 8 percent on Thursday and were...

"Privacy continues to be something that consumers say is holding them back," Forrester analyst Christopher Kelley told the E-Commerce Times. "It's always one of the first answers to the question of why more people aren't online." And to many consumers, Kelley noted, the spam ...

"There was a determination to be pure online players,unsaddled by warehouses and inventory,"Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told theE-Commerce Times. "This turned out to be a baddecision, because when online growth did not reachexpectations, these companies had nowhere else toturn."

The dot-com graveyard had been prepped, the headstone carved and polished. The mourners were gathered, dressed in black and ready to toss worthless stock certificates onto the casket. ...