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Gartner analyst Avivah Litan told the E-Commerce Timesthat Best Buy likely chose to implement theClearCommerce engine, which is used by more than40,000 merchants including e-tailers PetSmart and SonyOnline, due to concerns about fraud. "They fall into the category of a site t...

"It's not enough to merely have the lowest price or the slickest site," Yankee Group's Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times. "Many e-businesses built their business models looking to be the leader in one or two areas, such as maybe the lowest price or quickest checkout, and those are all important, but it's a balancing of many, many factors simultaneously that makes the difference." ...

If you are yawning through the NFL playoffs, you mightfind more thrills in the online job search arena ...

But IDC e-commerce analyst Jonathan Gaw predicted that online shopping will continue to be strong wellpast the holiday season. "The notion that e-commercedied sometime last year is really way off," Gaw told the E-Commerce Times. "We'rebuying more online than we ever did before." ...

Giga Information Group analyst Penny Gillespie told the E-Commerce Times that she expected to see banks trying out Internet-enabled ATM applications last year, but she has not included that prediction in her outlook for 2002 "The branch outlet is now being revisited by banks, ...

"Online retailers have been hit every bit as hard as, if not harder than, thetraditional retailers," Jupiter MediaMetrix senior analyst Ken Cassar told the E-Commerce Times."It's just more evident among traditional retailers because many of them areshowing fairly stagnant growth rates."

January is quickly flying by and we've hardly had time to consider what awaits e-commerce in 2002 ...

"It's harder and takes longer to find the good jobs," Alan Hoffman, technology jobs expert at Monster.com, told the E-Commerce Times But some companies will be hiring in 2002. And experts say any smart Internet job seeker would be wise to begin with one simple word: security....

Confirming published reports, SAP Markets spokesperson Paula Stouttold the E-Commerce Times that SAP has opted out of a joint sales relationship with Commerce One. The agreement covered SAP's procurement software, Enterprise Buyer Professional, and Commerce One's lower-end Enterprise Buyer Desktop application.

Recently someone asked what seemed a pretty straightforward question. He had a Web site that advertised that he breeds and sells show dogs. Through that site, he has made initial contact with several people who, after meeting him offline, have bought dogs from him. In other words, they became customers. ...

Safeway decided to debut its online service in Portland and Vancouver because customers in those cities already had experience with Webvan and HomeGrocer, Safeway spokesperson Debra Lambert told the E-Commerce Times ...

The United States government is coming up with a business plan -- an information technology business plan, that is. Some might say it is not a moment too soon for the government to recognize the power and pervasiveness of technology ...

"If you're talking about physical assets, you can only steal so much, due to physical limitations," SecurityFocus CEO Arthur Wong told the E-Commerce Times. "When you're talking about just numbers, the quantum of damages [online] can be so much higher." The Web has proven to b...

"One of the biggest hindrances to e-commerce is that people don't want to fill in their passwords, addresses and other information over and over again," Aberdeen research director Kent Allen told the E-Commerce Times Several companies are devising secure alternatives to these ...

There are few sites that manage to succeed in all three areas, analysts told the E-Commerce Times, but plenty that make their mark in one or two of the categories Giga Information Group analyst Ron Rogowski said operators of the best sites focus on clear navigation, beginning ...

By now, you have probably realized that Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is up to something ...

"It's becoming more of a challenge for online retailers," Iventosch told the E-Commerce Times. "Because if the growth isn't there, the question becomes: how do they get more of their dollars?" ...

Sometime over the holidays, Henry Blodget packed up his box and officially left Merrill Lynch, where he had been the lead Internet stock analyst. Blodget, who some pundits have all but blamed for single-handedly causing the dot-com bubble, has left behind a life of touting Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay and others for greener pastures ...

To accomplish this goal, experts tell the E-Commerce Times, e-tailers must do a better job of integrating all of their sales channels. Moreover, they need to stop using sales and promotional strategies that make their sites their own worst enemies Looking at the Web site as an...

Yankee Group analyst Rob Lancaster said online ordering is "a logical nextstep" for Papa John's. "The issue they all need to worry about istiming," he told the E-Commerce Times. Setting up an e-commerce system isan expensive prospect, at least in the beginning, the analyst said, and fast-food companies need to ensure that their consumers will use it...