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"There are currently no guaranteed payments on the Internet today," NACHA spokesperson Michael Herd told the E-Commerce Times. "So the ACTION model would be an improvement, should it come to pass." "ACTION can solve the authentication, security and privacy issues associated wi...

In most parts of the country, it was a news item that was easy to miss, but it was front page news in New Orleans, Louisiana when Lawrence E. Williams became the first person tried under the 1998 federal identity fraud statute. In all, Williams, 22, was charged with 14 counts of identity fraud. ...

"What's interesting about the latest trafficking numbers is (how they compare to) home surfing," Kaldor told the E-Commerce Times. "Last year, home surfers on average visited 10 sites per month. This year, it's still the same amount. At-home surfing use isn't increasing." ...

"The profitable companies are the ones with a well-defined niche that didn't have to go out and spend millions to get customers to come to them," ActivMedia director of research Harry Wolhandler told the E-Commerce Times. Here are a few success stories.

It's human nature to search for context, to try and putevents, especially negative events, into perspective. And it's journalistic nature to see every event as a superlative: the biggest, the best, the last, the final proof ...

"Selling convenience to Americans is rarely a bad idea," Gartner research director Whit Andrews told the E-Commerce Times ...

"Ultimately, they have gone too far with this," Grahn told the E-Commerce Times, addingthat while the click-through rate should not be a primary metric, "it should be ametric most advertisers should be looking at for all of their campaigns." ...

Gartner senior research analyst Gale Daikoku told the E-Commerce Times that the agreement is probably a bigger deal for Comergent than it is for Commerce One. According to Daikoku, for Commerce One it was "nothing more than another marketing move." ...

In retrospect, all of the signs were there, pointing to the eventual demise of Internet grocery delivery service Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) ...

"I think something like that, where you've got a brick-and-mortar chain doing an online thing as sort of an extension of the brick-and-mortar store, is the only thing likely to succeed," David Kathman, e-commerce analyst for Morningstar, told the E-Commerce Times. "The problem is, Webvan had to start from scratch."

Someday, in the afterlife, Napoleon Bonaparte, Douglas MacArthur and other military legends will gather around chief executive officer Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and congratulate Bezos on his battlefield tactics. For e-commerce has never known a more cunning general. ...

"The [timetable] for the test offer went pretty much as planned," Amazon spokesman Bill Curry told the E-Commerce Times. "We thought it would be about two weeks. There was no correlation to the Barnesandnoble offer." ...

Even when a dot-com's departure is less than momentous in the eyes of the general public, the exit can signal a change in direction for electronic commerce ...

It was only a matter of time. One of the first questions posed by analysts during a conference call to discuss the takeover of HotJobs by Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide was the antitrust question. ...

News item: A startup-up Internet pure-play retailer announces it is giving away 10 bucks to every customer who shops at its site. A story from mid-1999? Guess again. This item is from a week ago. Right in the middle of 2001 ...

Carolyn Brown, director of communications at Barnesandnoble.com, told the E-Commerce Times that the online bookseller has not decided how long the promotion would last ...

Emily Kuttner, spokesperson for the Motion Picture Association of America, told the E-Commerce Times that the suit seeks US$150,000 for each alleged copyright violation on the network, which uses technology similar to that of music-swapping service Napster. Plaintiffs in the ...

Europe quietly took a giant step forward last week, moving a bit closer to the goal of letting consumers shop online without borders. In a reversal of its previous stance, the European Commission announced that it is softening its position on who has the legal authority to govern international e-commerce disputes ...

"These partner failures do have an effect," Morningstar.com stock analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They do register on investors' radar screens, even though companies try their hardest to get people to ignore them." ...

If the first era of e-commerce was all about survival of the fittest, with all participants operating independently and competing for market share, the new era of online selling may have more to do with collaboration ...