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Some of the biggest retailers' Web sites reacted sluggishly during the post-Thanksgiving e-tail rush, with as many as one in five potential transactions failing at peak times, but overall the e-commerce sector held up under intense shopping activity, according to tracking data from two firms. Keynot...

Since its October 24th release, Apple's latest iteration of its BSD-based OS X software, version 10.3 or "Panther," has received more plaudits than pans throughout the high-tech community. BusinessWeek technology columnist Stephen Wildstrom called Panther "the best operating system available to cons...

A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor had a yard sale. Like others in the same position, she was glad to take any offer for no-longer-wanted stuff. So what if she paid $100 for that lamp a few years ago? She now considered it junk, and $5 was better than the nothing she would get if the trash collector...

Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to launch a music download service and to enter the consumer electronics market with its own music player and a line of high-end flat-panel televisions. Executives indicated the company intends to use the January Consumer Electronics trade show in Las Vegas as a v...

Over the last several months the U.S. economy has shown signs of improvement. John Challenger, CEO of outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times that there has been a 50 percent drop in high tech job cuts from last year. However, the IT job terrain has c...

In a move designed to enable the company to better serve emerging markets and changing industries, IBM said it will reorganize its software business to enable it to target vertical industry segments more effectively. Big Blue plans to retain around half of its 13,000 sales employees around the world...

As e-commerce shoppers have become as comfortable booking travel online as they are buying a book on Amazon.com, the competition in the online travel market has become brisk indeed. Although the sudden decline in travel after the terrorist acts of September 11th caused fiscal repercussions for trave...

Online shoppers joined their real-world counterparts in roaring out of the gate as the official holiday shopping season began in the days after Thanksgiving, setting up e-commerce to exceed already lofty estimates for growth, according to reports. Nielsen//NetRatings reported that online retail site...

Today's teenagers have powered the ongoing success of apparel seller Abercrombie & Fitch and music heavyweight MTV, among many other brands -- but the vast majority of e-tailers have long ignored the buying power of this group of consumers. That neglect is shortsighted, say industry experts who ...

Back in the IT good old days -- just three or four years ago -- money was plentiful, nearly all projects were approved, expanding bandwidth and the Internet made all things possible, and confidence in the economy ran high. What happened next has been described by Harvard University lecturer and auth...

In the world of computer security break-ins, the focus has shifted from alleged hacker masterminds to enterprise shortfalls -- unpatched software, poorly secured firewalls and weak computer passwords. However, vulnerability assessment tools are educating IT admins about how to close holes in network...

In a move that could dampen the tech sector's unbridled enthusiasm for low-cost outsourcing, Dell said it would stop routing some customer-support requests to call centers in India after customers complained about the quality of service. Dell said it had received some complaints about its overseas t...

As brick-and-mortar store managers start dusting off their reindeer and snowflake decorations, thoughts of revenue sugarplums doubtless are dancing in e-tailers' heads. Analysts are predicting robust growth in online spending as the gift-buying season gathers steam. The popular item categories also ...

Hewlett-Packard unveiled a line of low-cost servers aimed at the small- and medium-sized business market, saying it would sell the products for as much as 50 percent less than similar offerings from competitors. HP said the server-storage products are part of its larger smart-office push to attract ...

Considering that e-business as a concept was not part of most people's vocabularies before the 1990s, the number of technologies and processes that have been developed since then is staggering. With the second decade of large-scale e-business dawning, the E-Commerce Times decided to poll several wel...