E-Commerce

In the first installment of this two-part exclusive interview, the E-Commerce Times spoke with Gomez CEO Dr. Alex Stein about the Internet performance management industry -- a field that is booming as more companies see a need for this sort of technology. In today's edition, Stein discusses the natu...

Taking its AdSense program in a new direction that could inject a breath of fresh air a traditional Internet-advertising style, Google has said it will begin testing banner ads. The move comes as a surprise because Google's AdSense, which places ads based on the Web page content with which they app...

Reflecting businesses' growing need to wring ROI from Web operations, subscriptions to Gomez' Internet Performance Management grew 51 percent in 2003 from the prior year. In addition, the privately held company received two rounds of financing, added 90 new clients and claimed subscription renewal r...

Nintendo and Sony took the stage with competing announcements at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Each game console maker detailed specs of a new portable gaming device, but the proposed gadgets differ in important ways. Nintendo said its dual-screen entrant in this mar...

Powered by a slightly better than expected earnings report and expectations that tech spending will remain strong, Cisco Systems has said it will add 1,000 workers in 2004, in addition to 200 positions it filled during the first quarter. Although it did not provide a specific breakdown, the company ...

Microsoft has said it will stop making high-speed wireless networking products, phasing out a family of routers and network interface cards less than two years after it entered the booming WiFi market. Jennifer Hakes, a spokesperson with Microsoft's external public relations agency, said the softwar...

Gateway has filed suit against rival Hewlett-Packard, broadening a patent dispute that arose nearly two months ago. In the claim, the company alleges HP violated five separate patents held by Gateway. Gateway is seeking unspecified damages and asking that all of the claims HP filed in its own mid-Ma...

For all that Google has done to revive interest in technology and IPOs in recent weeks, it also has provided new fodder for a long-running debate: Is going public the ultimate goal for all companies, or are some businesses better served by staying private? Google's founders say they will remain focu...

Memory-chip designer Rambus has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit, claiming the four largest manufacturers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips -- Micron Technology, Hynix Semiconductor, Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies -- conspired to squelch demand for its products. The 36-page complaint ...

Microsoft has thrown its considerable clout -- and its 170 million registered e-mail users of Hotmail and MSN -- behind a plan that uses preapproved lists of mass marketers in an attempt to curtail the flood of spam. The company said it has signed on with IronPort Systems' so-called Bonded Sender pr...

Gateway has reported preliminary results for its first quarter, showing a larger-than-expected loss. The company booked revenue of $868 million during the period, with a net loss of $166 million, or 49 cents per share. Its first-quarter financial statements include the operations of eMachines, whic...

Time Warner's long-suffering Internet division, AOL, is showing signs that it can stem the tide of customer defections and may be positioned for a turnaround. AOL, which has gone through several rounds of layoffs, improved its bottom-line results in the first quarter, posting income of US$277 millio...

Google has ended the suspense -- for now -- by filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise as much as $2.7 billion through an initial public offering of stock. But, like many things the search-engine company has done, the IPO will have its share of twists. For starters, Google w...

In the first case brought under the CAN-SPAM Act that took effect January 1st, U.S. federal officials have charged four men from suburban Detroit, Michigan, with bombarding consumers with unwanted e-mail messages. Prosecutors alleged the men sent more than a million messages attempting to sell bogus...

As more people choose to pay bills online rather than shelling out for stamps and envelopes, a quiet battle is taking place behind the scenes: Retail banks are squaring off against companies that bill consumers directly, such as credit-card firms and utility companies. As it turns out, the most sign...