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The disparity between the attitudes toward online shopping is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the eBrain poll essentially confirms prior studies that have linked security concerns and reticence by women to make online purchases. As reported by the E-Commerce Times earlier this year, although almost half of Internet users are women, they do more information gathering and interacting than shopping compared to men.

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the EPIC, told the E-Commerce Times, "We think the FTC's action is significant. DoubleClick said that our claim was without merit, but the FTC is obviously pursuing some investigation." Rotenberg added, "We're hoping this will result in s...

As the E-Commerce Times predicted last December, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an investigation into whether e-tailers violated its Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule during the just-completed holiday shopping season While companies like Toysrus.com recei...

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, AOL spokesperson Kathy McKiernan flatly denied the report. "AOL is still strongly committed to open access," she said. "It was true when we announced the merger and it is true today." McKiernan expressly said that AOL still supports ...

In December, the E-Commerce Times reported that a number of e-tail sites appeared to be operating in violation of the Mail Order Rule. Companies that are subject to the 1975 statute include those that engage in traditional sales by mail as well as companies that receive sales orders where "a computer, fax machine or some other similar means is used to transmit an order over telephone lines," according to an FTC press release.

As reported earlier this month in the E-Commerce Times, an Ernst & Young study showed that 11.3 million Americans, or nearly 30 percent of online shoppers, are expected to make a Valentine's Day purchase online this year. As a result, Yahoo! reported that orders actually pick...

The growth of e-commerce by travelers reported by the TIA is consistent with data reported in the E-Commerce Times earlier this month by research firm GartnerGroup, which indicated that the travel industry is positioned for strong growth during the coming years. GartnerGroup ...

Earlier this week, the E-Commerce Times reported that Bush was dead last in online fund-raising, with a paltry $340,000 (US$). McCain was in first place with $2.5 million raised online, while Bradley had raised $1.6 million and Gore $1.1 million. Much of McCain's Internet fun...

In an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, FBI special agent Charles Neal, who heads the Los Angeles computer crime squad, said that while it is difficult to catch such criminals, it is certainly possible -- especially if an individual or small group is responsible.

The company's involvement with Linux is a direct outgrowth of its UNIX experience and the open-source community. Derik Belair, brand manager for Linux at Corel, told the E-Commerce Times that the company has substantially contributed to a couple of open-source projects, including Debian, KDE (K Desktop Environment) and WINE.

MCI Telecommunications Senior Vice President Vinton Cerf, who played a key role in developing TCP/IP and is often called the father of the Internet, told the E-Commerce Times that "Denial-of-service attacks are hard to combat because they look just like ordinary traffic -- just too much of it. To be effective, a denial-of-service defense has to be effected fairly close to the originator of the traffic. Otherwise, you might just get the equivalent of network congestion in addition to overloading a particular server." ...

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

As reported in the E-Commerce Times in December, eBay alleged that Bidder's Edge software had trespassed on eBay's system and that it had also committed computer fraud and misappropriation. eBay has also barred AuctionWatch.com and RubyLane.com from searching the nearly three million auction items on its site.

"I think in the apparel industry, the bricks-and-clicks have a distinct advantage over the dot-coms," Blaine Mathieu, a senior analyst with the research firm GartnerGroup, told the E-Commerce Times. "In apparel, brand figures in heavily, and there's no question that having real stores for exchange is a great benefit." ...

However, UPS is not alone in an already crowded field. Joseph Marino, an analyst with Sterling, Virginia-based Current Analysis, Inc., told the E-Commerce Times in November that Federal Express already has its online delivery program in place in order to cash in on e-commerce growth.

In the following exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Neupert discusses his decision to leap into the e-commerce game, the highly competitive online pharmacy marketplace, and what it takes to keep a high-profile Internet business prosperous and profitable. Q What ki...

As reported in the E-Commerce Times in October, eBay told AuctionWatch.com that it was no longer permitted to search its site after both sides failed to come to terms on a licensing agreement. Since then, however, such similar services as AuctionRover.com have opted to sign a licensing agreement with the Palo Alto, California-based eBay.

In November 1999, the E-Commerce Times reported that Allstate plans to spend $1 billion (US$) on a two-year e-commerce initiative that will be bankrolled in part by cutting costs. The insurer will eliminate 10 percent of its non-agent work force -- 4,000 jobs -- for savings of $600 million.

Derik Belair, Linux brand manager for Corel, told the E-Commerce Times that the company learned its lesson quickly. "We learned that we needed to be more specific in our beta testing agreement to make sure that it was clear the agreement applied only to Corel-specific components." ...

As reported earlier this month in the E-Commerce Times, Zale made the jump through an alliance with an already established Web property -- Weddingchannel.com -- that would present Zale as the Web's authority on fine jewelry. Unlike Zale, which is looking to help the average c...