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"As of 6 a.m. ET, services were largely restored ... . As of 8 a.m., all services were back to normal," TWC spokesperson Eric Mangan told the E-Commerce Times Well, not quite all -- Downdetector's statistics showed outages continued, peaking at 455 reports shortly before 11 a....

"Anything that lets us lock, wipe and disable our wireless phones when they are lost or stolen is a big plus," wireless industry analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. No More 'Apple Picking'...

"If nothing else, [it shows] Facebook is listening to its users and trying to make its site more useful, and is applying some policies to certain types of posts," he told the E-Commerce Times What Facebook Will Do...

"It needs to continue to build revenue sources," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It's been enormously ambitious and audacious in many respects, but it needs to continue to find revenue sources -- partly because of all those ambitious initiatives," Sterling added. "Its ambition...

"This is not the first time that the Chinese government has announced grand plans to replace the dominant 'Western' computing platforms," Bill Weinberg, Black Duck Software's senior director for open source strategy consulting, told the E-Commerce Times. "A decade ago, they ...

Put another way, Amazon was inspired to push for the acquisition because of Twitch's mindshare, to say nothing of its growing and very loyal subscriber base, Holt Foster, an attorney with Thompson & Knight, told the E-Commerce Times. "This is an extremely dedicated fan base,...

"Spam was a known problem in the early days of Twitter," he told the E-Commerce Times, "but lately they have really cracked down on spam. Automated providers out there who were providing auto tweeting and auto responses have been targeted, and those companies literally went out of business. So Twitter's attempts were pretty effective." ...

However, "in terms of awareness and audience, SoundCloud is nowhere near the stature of Pandora, Spotify, Heart, iTunes Radio or the market leaders," Ross Crupnick, founder and managing partner of Musicwatch, told the E-Commerce Times. "We estimate it's used by about 5 percent of the Internet population."

The Google policy "is as clear and easy to understand as a bowl of spaghetti," Jeff Kagan, a technology industry analyst, told the E-Commerce Times Securing the Web...

"We signed a handful of paid interconnection agreements to ensure Netflix subscribers enjoyed the viewing experience they expect from us," company spokesperson Anne Marie Squeo told the E-Commerce Times. Netflix signed the deal with Time Warner Cable in June, but it was only ...

When Nadella came on board, Microsoft's stock responded to the "prospect that many of the lumbering missteps and write-downs were behind them," he told the E-Commerce Times "To be fair, the move to the cloud and monthly fees for software solutions was clearly in motion under M...

"We believe Mailbox is the fastest, most delightful email experience available," Mailbox spokesperson Laurel Toney told the E-Commerce Times. "It effectively reduces the amount of email you have to deal with, thanks to auto-swipe." ...

As to the CFPB's point about the move increasing the amount of information available to consumers, "we don't know that consumers will see any additional value that they can't already get from the private marketplace," she told the E-Commerce Times The Roundtable objects to the...

"On one level, you could say that Google is just recognizing reality," Greg Sterling, vice president of strategy for the Local Search Association, told the E-Commerce Times. "Children under 13 do use Google services such as Google.com and YouTube. Large numbers of under-13 ki...

"This is by no means a new idea," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Over the last year or so, Google has added many tools to encourage marketers to buy more ads directly, but call tracking was still a third-party option until now. This feature may be the last piece of the puzzle in getting more direct buys from ad agencies and marketers." ...

"The timeline is the way they keep up with people they wish to follow, and they do not want redundant or irrelevant material appearing in their timeline," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Such material can be distracting and viewed as a waste of time by some of the people on Twitter."

"The tech surplus in 2011 was largely driven by the significant trade surpluses in tech services, particularly the tech services that are provided by the foreign affiliates of U.S. firms.The largest surpluses in this sector are those in Internet services, prepackaged software, and customized software and computer systems," Matthew Kazmierczak, senior director of research and market intelligence at the TechAmerica Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times...

"I wouldn't use the word 'disrupter,'" Bill Niemeyer, new videostrategist at The Diffusion Group (TDG), told the E-Commerce Times. "Netflix hasdone an incredible job with its original content," he acknowledged, "but what we're seeingwith it and with Amazon, Yahoo and Hulu is ...

"Pinterest already had YouTube and Vimeo integration, but those are much more about user-created content," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Vevo is more about the entertainment industry promoting its videos." ...

"We are looking at billions of dollars of potential losses for U.S. companies as individuals, businesses, and foreign governments turn away from American companies because of concerns about NSA's surveillance programs," Danielle Kehl, a policy analyst at the Open Technology Institute (OTI), told the E-Commerce Times.