Spotlight Features

The online finance industry needs a makeover. Like any product or service presented to consumers, it's all about image. A new report by Javelin Strategy and Research shows that the online finance industry is suffering from an image problem. According to the latest Javelin Online Finance Update, cons...

One of the great promises of the Internet has always been that it can bring people together, no matter their location or technology. Social network sites like Friendster, Orkut and LinkedIn are making this promise into a reality every day by attracting millions of members that spend hours chatting w...

When most people think about IT forensics, if they think about it at all, they likely imagine a scenario out of the hit TV series CSI. "They make it seem like there's a button that says 'find evidence,'" Robert Shields of forensics software vendor Guidance told the E-Commerce Times. "The way they po...

At the recent RSA conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in his keynote speech predicted traditional passwords are headed for their demise. Any CIO who has walked past a row of desks knows Gates has a point when he says passwords cannot adequately protect security: The number of Post-It notes aff...

The 1990s saw Latin American countries -- like their "developing country" counterparts in Asia -- benefit from large inflows of direct foreign investment as well as mergers-and-acquisitions activity. This tremendous influx of funds was in large part driven by the speculative Internet and telecommuni...

Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry. For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much...

Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry. For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much...

Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry. For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much...

Only a few years ago, a digital music aficionado's music-player choices consisted mainly of 128-MB flash devices that held only a handful of songs. Now, 40-GB devices double as portable hard drives and hold up to 10,000 songs. Not surprisingly, this move toward more technological power has been embr...

A few years ago, micropayments seemed like yet another brilliant idea in the midst of the Internet revolution. Then the bottom fell out of the market. Although many e-businesses in other industries have come back from the dot-com brink with stronger models and clearer goals, micropayment specialists...

Judging by its strategy, firewall vendor NetScreen is committed to a holistic view of enterprise security, leading the charge to integrate and deepen the firewall beyond its original parameters. The company's recently released Deep Inspection Firewall, for example, is designed to prevent application...

As enterprises continue to invest in wireless devices and networks, IT specialists will be faced with the growing challenge of maintaining and improving the security of those networks. In many cases, they are getting the financial assistance they need to achieve this goal. Global spending on overall...

Outsourcing may be a bane to many U.S. technology, finance and manufacturing employees, but it has proved a boon -- and a catalyst for cultural change -- to nations like India that are reaping the benefits of this trend. Although Indian employees typically earn less than their U.S. counterparts, the...

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...

Microsoft wants everyone to migrate to Office 2003. But at between $239 and $329 per PC, users may wonder whether the step up is worth the cash. In this article, the E-Commerce Times delves into the new Office suite to identify the features users likely will crave -- and those that, while promising,...