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Three-quarters of UK households are not online, Peacock told the E-Commerce Times, and "the thing that stops them from getting online is the cost of that per-minute phone bill." AOL competitor Freeserve, which says it has more than twice as many UK members as AOL, offers subs...

"Any time we add features, it is something customers are seeking to help their online shopping experience," AOL Spokesperson Julie Mason told the E-Commerce Times. "Our goal is to make it as easy as possible." The assistant will be available through the company's new client s...

Scott McDonald, director of GM's global e-sales, told the E-Commerce Times that GM's pilot program and eventual roll-out will let consumers scan the inventory of all dealers in a market area, rather than having to search the inventory of each dealership separately. McDonald also pointed out that because the site is backed by GM, it will be able to provide customers with up-to-date inventory information.

"All of the components are essential to success in terms of retail," Gartner Group research director Robert Labatt told the E-Commerce Times. "Failure in one of the components will reduce the probability of success." The bottom line, ultimately, is the bottom line. Internet b...

Although the survey asked what changes B2C companies would be making before spring 2001, IDC researcher Molly Upton told the E-Commerce Times that many of the companies surveyed said they hope to put the finishing touches on their new features in time for the holiday season. ...

"The cost of fulfillment is extremely high for these companies -- up to 25 cents on the revenue dollar -- and it drove a lot of e-tailers bankrupt last year," IDC analyst Jim Williamson told the E-Commerce Times. The major obstacle last year, however, was getting the product ...

Josh Bernoff, an analyst at Forrester Research, told the E-Commerce Times that forthcoming technological advances rather than low costs are what will advance interactive TV. "Television will get a whole lot smarter," said Bernoff. He added that the advent of digital recording...

"The Internet is starting to become predictable," O'Neill told the E-Commerce Times. "In e-commerce, just as in the retail world, there is a seasonality. We're starting to see those same seasonality trends with the Internet. The [Web] is starting to settle down and reflect what is happening offline." ...

Speaking from a cab driving down Lexington Avenue during an interview with the E-Commerce Times, Linda Bennett, a spokesperson for Yahoo!, said that "riders will be able to check the news, weather forecasts, find movie times, get online directions and surf the Web" while traveling to their destinations.

AOL decided to start the site because "a third of all online shoppers are bargain-hunters," Julie Mason, a spokeswoman for the Dulles, Virginia-based company, told the E-Commerce Times. The site is already available to AOL members, she said. Notably, a new survey from Jupiter...

When asked about the strangest auction eBay ever handled, spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times, "One auction that we thought was unique or different in the early days was a used bulldozer that sold for $23,000." Although the bulldozer sale was considered unu...

Nichols told the E-Commerce Times that investors are now focusing on companies that develop and implement underlying technologies -- such as infrastructure, broadband and wireless firms. However, Nichols believes that rumblings about a shakeout in the business-to-business (B2...

"My guess is the seller was also caught off guard by the number of bids," Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times, adding that auction officials later advised Kaplan to subscribe to a bid verification feature to weed out the prank offers. ...

"My guess is the seller was also caught off guard by the number of bids," Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times, adding that auction officials later advised Kaplan to subscribe to a bid verification feature to weed out the prank offers. ...

All parties refused to disclose the precise terms of the multi-year, multi-million dollar (US$) contract under which Multex will provide technology and hosting for the site. Yet Multex.com president James Tousignant told the E-Commerce Times that it represents "one of the biggest deals" his company has been a part of.

Pimpshiz told the E-Commerce Times that he chose sites that were "popular and high profile -- spreads the word to more people." He also said that he believes hacking is a crime but that he avoids getting caught "with creativity."

"When you make an announcement like this, your phones are flooded with recruiters calling for your personnel," Stout told the E-Commerce Times. "Hundreds and hundreds of people from over the world want your employees." Stout confirmed that outliving an online venture can stil...

"Unlike in other Web categories, where we see U.S. brands dominating, local knowledge seems important to the European job hunter using the Web," Andreas Gutjahr, European Marketing Manager of MMXI Europe, told the E-Commerce Times. Gutjahr added, "While the top career sites, ...

Online advertisers are "looking very carefully" at the way the government handles old-line media advertising in an attempt to avoid new rules and controversy, Buchwalter told the E-Commerce Times. "The online community is extremely conscious of regulation and is trying extremely hard to get ahead of the curve" to convince government that self-regulation works.

"We've determined there was a security breach," Western Union spokesperson Peter Zivertz told the E-Commerce Times, "and we believe the credit and debit card information has been copied by a third party." ...