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In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, 3Com spokesman Brian Johnson pointed out that sports fans have long toted radios to follow the games more closely or check in on other sporting events. Furthermore, cell phone use at sports events is rampant. "We're hoping this one d...

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, Greenlight president and chief operating officer Mark O'Neil said the deal has been in the works since January, when Amazon bought a five percent stake in the privately-held Greenlight. "It's a great deal for Greenlight," O'Neil said...

In Part I of this special report, the E-Commerce Times looked back at the first five major milestones in e-commerce history. From the first electronic business transactions to heartstopping e-tail sales figures, e-commerce burst onto the scene in dramatic fashion. Now, as this report concludes, we explore the second five major events of the great e-commerce roller coaster ride.

FTC Midwest Regional Director Steven Baker told the E-Commerce Times that credit repair scams have been a concern for many years. According to Baker, repair schemes have "made themselves a home on the Internet." "The bad thing about these schemes is that they take advantage o...

Unifi senior analyst Craig Kams told the E-Commerce Times that in the past, many new recruits were likely to take equity instead of cash because high stock values made such packages more lucrative. However, according to Kams, the mixed stock market has made these long-term eq...

"To a great extent, Linux achieved what was unthinkable just a few years ago, which is to put Microsoft on the defensive regarding its cash-cow Windows NT product (now Windows 2000 Professional)," E-Commerce Times industry analyst David Geller said. "The message to Microsoft is that the time has come to invest heavily in regaining mind share among e-business and technology decision-makers. Otherwise, we can expect the dominant e-commerce platform of choice to be Linux." ...

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, Susannah Fox, director of research at the Project, said the study shows that the online industry is moving away from public opinion on privacy. "People want opt-in but the industry is moving very strongly in the direction of opt-out ...

Kristen Rand, Director of Federal Policy for the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Center, told the E-Commerce Times there are "easily hundreds of Web sites" selling firearms or facilitating their purchase. Some estimates put the number in the thousands. ...

Perhaps the oddball personality factor is fueling the Sock Puppet's sales. With the personality principle in mind, online meeting company WebEx hired drag queen RuPaul to boost its marketing campaign. WebEx executive Charles Orlando told the E-Commerce Times that the company picked the nearly seven foot tall (in heels) RuPaul "because we couldn't think of anyone taller." ...

SEC deputy assistant regional director Helene Glotzer told the E-Commerce Times that the defendants had set up a Web site called Precious Stones Trading Worldwide, but apparently never sold any goods through their site. Instead, they used it to provide would-be investors with enticing information about their fraudulent stock offering.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has assembled a team that will pore over the technical and legal documents relating to Carnivore, EPIC Director Marc Rotenberg told the E-Commerce Times Thursday. "We'll be in a position to look at it and let the public know wh...

"Last year was a wake-up call for online retailers," cPulse executive vice president Jody Dodson told the E-Commerce Times. "There were many cases where e-tailers promised and didn't deliver. To do that two years in a row is going to have a depressing effect on e-commerce." ...

"In order to maintain the integrity of gaming, there needs to be tight regulation and law enforcement involvement, which is difficult to do for offshore Internet gaming," AGA spokesperson Naomi Greer told the E-Commerce Times. ...

At the time of the initial layoffs, e-commerce analyst Jim Williamson of International Data Corp. downplayed the cutbacks at Living.com and its main rival, Furniture.com, as simple "bumps in the road." Williamson told the E-Commerce Times that companies like Living.com had to adjust to a competitive industry that no longer has access to plentiful investment capital.

"It's important to have someone in the federal government focusing on this issue to build awareness," CIO editor-in-chief Abbie Lundberg told the E-Commerce Times. "This is a security issue. It has to do with cyberterrorism and the issue of whether people hack into our infrastructure." ...

"Companies need to be preparing for this now," Parr told the E-Commerce Times, "and the first stage is to make sure your company has a system that is flexible enough to deliver in multiple languages and currencies around the world." Researchers at Forrester agree. Last fall t...

Bettua told the E-Commerce Times that as the two companies built an Internet site for NAPA, they realized their products made a good fit. The joint effort will allow firms to begin offering customer service online the same day they begin selling products, he added. "For compa...

"The key benefit of Express Marketplace is that it allows companies of any size, in any location, to bring new efficiencies to their supply chain process using only a PC with a Web browser. No other hardware or software is needed," Bob Brooks, GXS vice president of marketplace solutions, told the E-Commerce Times...

BlueLight said it will use the capital to fund day-to-day operations, but company spokesperson Dave Karraker told the E-Commerce Times that the discount e-tailer could venture to acquire other companies as well. "The extra money also affords us the opportunity to take a look ...

In June, DotComGuy sponsor U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, the 11th-largest brokerage firm in the United States, co-hosted an online discussion with E! Entertainment Television and DotComGuy about e-tailing trends. While paying respect to DotComGuy's online savvy, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Jeff Klinefelter told the E-Commerce Times that the conference was viewed more as a novelty.