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Amazon Flows Into Mobile Payments Territory

"In the short run, the lower transaction costs will be good for small businesses too," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Sellers who avoided mobile payments due to lack of trust might reconsider, and merchants with relatively high transaction volume will definitely consider swit...

Yahoo, Google Team Up to Fight Email Snoops

"The benefits of having everyone else look at it far outweigh the problem of having the NSA look at it," he told the E-Commerce Times Pretty Good Privacy...

Smartphone Kill Switch Law Reaches California Governor’s Desk

The measure is a huge win for consumers, Adam Ely, COO and cofounder of Bluebox Security, told the E-Commerce Times. It will only be a matter of time before such features become ubiquitous, even if only a small number of states require them. "To keep manufacturing costs low, ...

Amazon Gives Disney a Swift Kick in the Shins

"The bottom line for everybody in this soap opera is money," Mike Jude, Stratecast consumer communication services program manager at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times "Amazon would like to make more money; so would Hachette -- and they don't believe Amazon's figure...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Feds Struggle to Corral Data

"The Federal IT managers on the front lines are definitely having a different experience than what some White House reports suggest," Steve O'Keeffe, MeriTalk's founder, told the E-Commerce Times The MeriTalk survey, which was supported by Actifio, painted a more discouraging...

Flailing Barnes & Noble Turns to Google to Help Fend Off Amazon

B&N is floundering, having closed 63 stores in the past five years, and "could use any additional sales they could garner," Scott Strawn, a program director at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. "But I don't think this will save them," Strawn added. "If they're looking to this t...

Flailing Barnes & Noble Turns to Google to Help Fend Off Amazon

B&N is floundering, having closed 63 stores in the past five years, and "could use any additional sales they could garner," Scott Strawn, a program director at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. "But I don't think this will save them," Strawn added. "If they're looking to this t...

Secure Sites to Get the Google Bump

Encrypted sites require certificates that provide a level of trusted authentication, so "Google can have more confidence in an encrypted site actually offering something of value," Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist for RedSeal Networks, told the E-Commerce Times "Overall, tha...

Sprint Sheds Hesse Along With T-Mobile Hopes

"This was a mutual decision by Dan Hesse and the Sprint board of directors," Sprint spokesperson Doug Duvall told the E-Commerce Times "All believed a change in CEO would be in the best interest of the company," he continued. Hesse "leaves a solid foundation in place."

BlackBerry Ripe for Growth, Predicts CEO Chen

"Right now, customers who call us are not buying BlackBerrys," Ken Dulaney, vice president for mobile computing at Gartner, told the E-Commerce Times "If BlackBerry wants to be a hardware manufacturer as it was in the past, it will have to sell millions and millions of phones ...

DoT May Rule Out In-Flight Cellphone Talking

"There were enough comments to move forward with a NPRM," Susan Hendrick, deputy press secretary for the DoT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The NPRM is being drafted as DoT evaluates the comments. At this point, there is no final determination as to what the NPRM will say, let alone a final rule."

Apple’s Big Blue Dilemma

"Apple's entire business and its culture are based on focusing constantly on the end user and the end user's experience," he told the E-Commerce Times. Apple has a history of accommodating what organizations want -- both in education and in corporate America -- so long as tha...

Xiaomi Wins Key to China’s Heart

"Xiaomi has executed on its strategy perfectly," Jones told the E-Commerce Times. "It has consistently delivered compelling products at aggressive price points, created and continuously updated its MIUI software -- all backed up effectively by targeted marketing." Room for Maj...

Microsoft May Put an Attractive Price Tag on Win 9: Free

If Microsoft does indeed offer a free upgrade to Windows 9, it will reflect the company's determination to leverage the cloud, Mukul Krishna, global director of the digital media practice at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times "Where people store more and more data on ...

Federal Judge Unswayed by Microsoft’s Objections to Data Demands

The ruling "suggests that courts can disregard the limits to traditional evidence gathering for digital data and leaves open the possibility [that] other courts interpreting ECPA and 'warrants' issued under ECPA can disregard other inherent limits to that power," Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Federal Cloud Adoption Blossoms

"New projects almost always go to the cloud these days, at least for initial development environments. If they work well, they often stay there, unless there is a specific project requirement that they be hosted in a government data center," he told the E-Commerce Times "The b...

Facebook Staring at Fresh Privacy Class Action

"This is an interesting suit, though I think it's unlikely to succeed," Derek E. Bambauer, associate professor of law at University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law, told the E-Commerce Times. "If the suit succeeds, and the claimants obtain damages, it could be qu...

Google Hangouts Get Down to Business

"This is really an enterprise move, where Google is battling with Microsoft," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Now Google is making Hangouts a competitor to Lync and Skype services, in the battle for enterprise. It's not really about new features -- it's more about Google's shi...

Oracle’s Pricey In-Memory Database Feature Triggers a Row

The Exalytics servers supported third-party data sources including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Business Information Warehouse and Teradata -- but "I believe this new solution is purely focused on Oracle database installations," King told the E-Commerce Times Accidents H...

PlayStation Now Hints at Bright Game-Streaming Future

"PlayStation Now has the potential to be a game changer in terms of how consumers access their content," Liam Callahan, a director and games industry analyst at the NPD Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Digital rentals have not really been a viable option in the past, and P...

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