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Last week, the E-Commerce Times made similar projections for the U.S. in a four-part series on the future of e-commerce and interactive digital television. By 2006, e-commerce revenues generated by iDTV users in the U.S. will match those generated by PCs, according to the E-Commerce Times forecasts.

Setting up a drug deal can be as easy as entering an online chat room, according to Special Agent Scott Ando of the New Orleans Field Office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Ando told the E-Commerce Times that while there are no statistics to measure the extent of illicit drug trafficking on the Internet, the number of Web sites that flagrantly offer illegal wares is multiplying rapidly.

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, security expert Chris Davis, who worked on the investigation with the consulting firm TygerTeam, said the pair exploited two breaches to break into the systems. Davis said the first allowed them to locate security holes and the second allowed them to access data on supposedly secure servers. At least part of the problem was attributed to a flaw in Microsoft's e-commerce Web server software.

The E-Commerce Times projects that TV-based business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce will total $15 million in 2002 and rise to $105 million by 2006 -- equaling PC-based consumer purchasing by that date. In its SEC filing, Replay TV said, "We believe the ReplayTV Service will tr...

In Parts I, II and III of this series, the E-Commerce Times explored the emergence of digital television into the public consciousness. The similarities to the early 1990s, when the Internet had about a million users, are striking Since 1990, the number of Internet users has i...

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, WorldGate Senior Vice President Gerard Kunkel said that the revenue potential for interactive TV is so substantial that a cable system could potentially subsidize Internet access permanently using rebates generated by its subscribers' e-commerce purchases.

In Parts Iand II of this series, the E-Commerce Times explored interactive television and how it is now developing at an extraordinary pace on aworldwide scale. By allowing interaction with television advertising and programming, it will significantly transform the e-commerce landscape. However, while satellite TV firms currently hold the lead, cable TV firms are primed to tilt the balance in a hurry...

Since that time, Park's concept has solidified its position in the e-marketplace. As reported in the E-Commerce Times, the company secured $28 million in venture capital funding last October from Amazon and an additional $30 million from Japanese Internet investor Softbank earlier this year.

One merchant told the E-Commerce Times that these rules could well force smaller e-tailers off the Web. However, many observers believe that MasterCard is merely trying to punish large merchants that the company sees as having lax credit card authorization policies. ...

In the following special report, the E-Commerce Times explores the digital TV phenomenon and takes a close look at what e-businesses and consumers alike can expect as this dynamic market force matures and explodes into the mainstream. ...

In the following interview with the E-Commerce Times, GTE CyberTrust president Peter Hussey discusses the role of digital certificates, the advent of wireless e-commerce, and the issues and pitfalls that face the industry as a whole. ...

Many legal and Internet experts are convinced that the ruling is flawed. In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, Alan Schwartz, who co-authored the book "Stopping Spam" with Simson Garfinkel, said, "Spam should not constitute interstate commerce, as no commercial transaction has occurred between the spammer and the recipient -- by definition!" ...

"It's far beyond anybody's wildest expectations," Keith Loris, chief executive of Maynard, Massachusetts-based SoftLock.com (OTCBB: SLCK), told the E-Commerce Times. Softlock's eMerchandising software works with Adobe's (Nasdaq: ADBE) Acrobat Reader to allow readers to downlo...

"We were as surprised to see this as anyone else," PC Data's Internet research analyst Cameron Meierhoefer told the E-Commerce Times. He added that the February report was the first instance of Amazon being surpassed in terms of the number of home customers. Meierhoefer said ...

However, the announcement does not mean that consumers will be able to order Big Macs over the Internet. "This is not really about hamburger delivery, it's an innovative way to connect our brands and customers," McDonald's spokesman Mike Gordan told the E-Commerce Times. "Whi...

Barnesandnoble.com spokesman Gus Carlson told the E-Commerce Times Friday that his company will likely not comment on Bezos' letter while the lawsuit is still pending. Carlson said that Barnesandnoble.com is currently appealing a judge's December ruling issuing a preliminary ...

The Forrester study is similar to a recent study reported in the E-Commerce Times by GartnerGroup that also predicts that electronic marketplaces, driven by "e-market makers," will grow explosively. By 2004, GartnerGroup predicts, these "e-market makers" will be responsible f...

Significantly, after clicking to the eMoneyMail site, an E-Commerce Times reporter was told that his version of Internet Explorer 5.0 would not work with the service. X.com, however, has its own problems. The company found itself on the defensive last month after allowing new...

This new venture is just the latest challenge to AOL Moviefone's dominance in online ticket sales. Last month, the E-Commerce Times reported that giant cinema chain Cinemark USA, Inc. -- which specializes in stadium seating and IMAX theaters -- announced plans to sell tickets via the Internet to 14 Dallas, Texas-area theaters.

Yolles told the E-Commerce Times that "at this stage, a lot of people are unsure about the online shopping environment, and they enter it with a whole bunch of concerns, whether real or imagined." Most notable among those "frustrations and failures" is anxiety over credit car...