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George Nichols, an analyst at Morningstar.com, told the E-Commerce Times that AOL exhibited strong performance in adding new customers -- 1.4 million new subscribers were signed up, bringing the service to 26 million subscribers and generating $1.2 billion -- but showed that even it is not immune to a slowdown in online advertising spending.

Ray Winninger, Director of Product of Development for 3Com's Internet Appliance Division, told the E-Commerce Times that Audrey is geared toward the more experienced Internet user. "Audrey is not a low-cost replacement for a PC," Winninger said. "It's a supplement to extend t...

"In both cases, the word in question is an ordinary word in the English language," Abel told the E-Commerce Times. "But in the Sting case the domain holder had had the domain for quite some time with a page up and material unrelated to the musician or to pornography." ...

"It's definitely appearing as more companies are finding out they really require live interaction in order to promote customer loyalty," Giga Information Group senior analyst Elizabeth Herrell told the E-Commerce Times. "It's seen as a business necessity." ...

"Latin America is still a relatively small market and not yet a priority for most U.S.-based retailers," Wenrich told the E-Commerce Times. "The difficulty around fulfillment is you have to do it on a country-by-country basis. What you have to do to serve Mexico is different from what you have to do to serve Argentina. Working with agencies to get things through customs in a timely fashion generally requires local expertise." ...

Though Yankee analyst Lisa Melsted told the E-Commerce Times that "there's still quite a bit of work to be done on the other fronts," such as ethnicity and race, the study showed that the "digital divide" is narrowing as far as income and gender. ...

"It will be taken care of in a way that will prevent [any material effect]," Dell spokesman T.R. Reid told the E-Commerce Times. Sanyo Electric made the batteries for Dell, but Reid would not say whether Sanyo was assuming all financial liability.

"The average American, when they see big corporations not paying their fair share, they're outraged," Taxpayers for Common Sense spokesman Keith Ashdown told the E-Commerce Times. "When they hear about corporations welching off the system, they go berserk." ...

"Everyone is awaiting the fourth quarter," Meierhofer told the E-Commerce Times. "The holiday sales will be really the true indication of the state of online retailing today." ...

"The numbers look solid all around," Yankee senior analyst Rebecca Nidositko told the E-Commerce Times in September. "It looks like a good shopping season." But e-tailers have been put on notice by analysts that they stand to lose billions as well this season by failing to im...

"One of biggest challenges in our market is reaching critical mass," Bradley Moseley-Williams of Webpersonals.com told the E-Commerce Times. "If you don't have people logging in, you don't have a business." To compensate -- and to convince casual surfers to open their wallets...

"Seniors are definitely a major consumer group," Anne Rickert, measurement analyst at Media Metrix, told the E-Commerce Times. Americans 55-and-older are more likely to own and use credit cards, own high-end electronics, and buy new, rather than used, cars, making them "poten...

The pain of Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN) struggle toward profitability should continue but could pay off for the stock within a year, the analysts told the E-Commerce Times. Furthermore, Priceline (Nasdaq: PCLN), Buy.com (Nasdaq: BUYX) and Webvan (Nasdaq: WBVN) have upside potenti...

"I think what that tells us is that following closely on the heels of their first debate, there were very few distinguishing policy statements from either candidate on the subject of technology in particular and commerce in general," Mader told the E-Commerce Times. "Conseque...

"When people go onto the Net, they think of themselves as consumers interested in information or a product, but not as any particular kind of identity," IDC e-commerce analyst Barry Parr told the E-Commerce Times. "This is why sites that have attempted to distinguish themselves demographically and not behaviorally, such as Women.com, seem to be experiencing so much difficulty." ...

Ronald C. Long, District Administrator for the Philadelphia District Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), told the E-Commerce Times that the Internet has made it exponentially easier for investors to stay informed and that serious investors "should not be without Internet access." ...

In the following exclusive interview with Bobbi Burns, director of the "eSun" initiative at Sun Microsystems, the E-Commerce Times explores how the multi-billion dollar (US$) company is using its online store as an integral part of its overall marketing strategy ...

"One of the problems with the Net is that it provides opportunities and anonymity," Frank Creighton, RIAA senior vice president and director of anti-piracy, told the E-Commerce Times. He added that many people believe downloading copyrighted music from the Internet is safe because they believe their chances of getting caught are slim.

"What you do a lot of the time in the search and evaluation process will affect the post-evaluation process very heavily," Loizides told the E-Commerce Times. Loizides noted that brick-and-click apparel vendor NineWest, suffering from a high rate of return on products purchas...

Jeffrey A. Friedman, former vice president-counsel with the Committee On State Taxation, told the E-Commerce Times that it would take an act of Congress to change the current rule mandating that sellers only have to collect sales tax if they have a physical presence in the purchaser's state.