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Many experts, including Internet law specialist Michael D. Scott, doubt whether e-commerce companies are prepared to meet FTC standards this year. "Some companies have learned their lessons," Scott told the E-Commerce Times, "but I suspect most are not aware of the FTC regulations." ...

"Its a good thing for Microsoft because it will give them a foot in the ITV door," Gelles told the E-Commerce Times. "CBS and all the major networks are now starting to realize how important interactive television is to the bottom line." ...

FTC Spokesperson Claudia Bourne Farrell told the E-Commerce Times that the reason the FTC delayed announcing the outcome of the case was to make sure the receiver was set up to handle the expected influx of calls. ...

Gregg Griesemer, an analyst with AG Edward & Sons, Inc., told the E-Commerce Times that Chicago is one of Streamline's top markets, where orders approach the $130 average -- the magic number that many believe the company needs to reach in order to turn a profit. Streamline picked up its Chicago operations last year when it acquired the assets of Scotty's Home Delivery.

"The impact near-term is that Michael's got a whole lot less money than he would have had otherwise," Baker told the E-Commerce Times. "That's not to be underestimated. That's going to curtail their ability to do a lot of things they would like to have done." Added Baker, "It...

"Without appropriate intrusion-detection tools in place, over 400 systems infected with zombie agents could potentially shut down any e-commerce site for an arbitrary amount of time," X-Force director Chris Rouland told the E-Commerce Times. Notably, according to Rouland, it ...

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, David Berenbaum, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based Equal Rights Center, said that U.S. District Court Judge June Green issued a memorandum that was "very supportive of the plaintiff's case, but which denied their request for a 30-day extension of time to conduct discovery." ...

Maggie Johnson, a member of Stanford University's computer science faculty and executive vice president of Metricnet.com, told the E-Commerce Times that Ireland is doing a lot of things right in its efforts to build a strong, tech-centered economy, but the country still has some serious technology deficiencies.

Lycos told the E-Commerce Times in August that it had ended an earlier agreement with Quack.com because things were not moving ahead quickly enough. Mobilee already has about a million customers for its streaming audio service, which pushes news, weather and other information to subscribers' cell phones...

FBI spokesperson Laura Bosley told the E-Commerce Times that Jakob is suspected of making between $230,000 and $240,000 (US$) from stock trades he made around the time the bogus press release was circulating. ...

U.S. cities are at various stages of Web-readiness. Among the three official city Web sites reviewed by the E-Commerce Times -- New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- New York's was the most advanced. Visitors to NYC.gov can get updated city news, pay parking tickets and selec...

"College students are famously important to marketers but famously difficult to reach," Varsity Group's Sam Heitner told the E-Commerce Times. "Students who know a campus can get the word out more effectively than marketing pros who don't." ...

"At the time that statement was made, that was completely false," said Luci McClure, senior trial counsel with the SEC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Tutornet and its president knew back in April that AOL terminated the contract because Tutornet couldn't meet its obligations," McClure told the E-Commerce Times.

"We were in limited production and had shipped a small number of the processors," spokesman Michael Sullivan told the E-Commerce Times. "The stoppage will really not have any material impact on our revenue numbers going forward." ...

Often, two sites will offer the same product at the same price, and "the decision factor will really be the shipping fee itself," Green told the E-Commerce Times. Two out of 10 people surveyed had returned an item purchased online in the past six months. Among those making re...

US Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior research analyst George S. Dahlman was not surprised to see a small brick-and-click market take the wireless leap before such Internet-based grocers as Webvan and Peapod. However, he told the E-Commerce Times that wireless access should not be seen as a solution to problems facing the industry.

"A few years ago, dealerships were content to just have their name on the Web," NADA economist Jason Altman told the E-Commerce Times. That dynamic is changing, according to Altman, because a growing number of dealerships are learning to harness the power of the Web and are b...

However, in an interview with the E-Commerce Times, Interhack co-founder Matt Curtin said that it appears as though TRUSTe simply did not know the technical capability existed in theCounter.com's software to track specific users. Curtin said, "This is another example of build...

"Clearly, just getting the masses of users onto the Net is a huge hurdle," Alexander told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Although Web owners sometimes claim that customers are disavowing charges as a way to hide the fact that they have visited adult sites, FTC Attorney Doug Wolfe told the E-Commerce Times that numerous complainants had been willing to sign sworn depositions stating they had not visited the sites in question.