Michael Pastore

Both European and US firms are not taking advantage of the Internet’s opportunities in Europe, according to research done by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Jupiter Communications. Europe’s largest organizations are not investing sufficiently to realize the long-term potential of e-business, PricewaterhouseCoopers found. Only 11 percent of European companies have fully implemented e-business solutions, and 48 percent are […]

While the Internet has shown some performance improvements in recent years, the Web remains slow for conducting serious transactional business, according to a study by Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc (NCRI). The study, which was based on data from Internet performance measurement firm Keynote Systems Inc. (KEYN), found that current trends indicate the Web may not […]

One in three Belgian Web surfers have made an online purchase, and 42.5 percent say they will quite probably do so in the near future, according to Belgian Internet Mapping study (BIM®) from InSites. Belgians spent an average of 13,000 francs online on their last purchase on the Net, but the median amount spent is […]

Consumer TechnologySurvey Topics • Why They Go Online • How They Go Online • Shopping & Marketing • Music Downloads • Convergence Products The number of users accessing the Internet from home has increased dramatically, and their preferred online activity is e-mail, not research or shopping, according to the 1999 PricewaterhouseCoopers Consumer Technology Survey. Compared from last year’s survey, Internet […]

Worldwide electronic commerce this holiday season is projected to surpass $12.2 billion in 1999, according to GartnerGroup’s Dataquest unit, up from $4.5 billion in 1998. As expected, the US will dominate online holiday shopping with 70 percent of the world’s e-commerce revenue during the holiday season. Europe is projected to account for 15.5 percent of […]

Consumers will spend $6 billion online during the months of November and December, up from $3.1 billion spent during the same period in 1998, according to research by Jupiter Communications. Of the $6 billion Jupiter expects to be spent online, $5 billion will be spent on products, and $1 billion will go toward travel services. […]

South African consumers will spend 2.7 billion rand (approximately US$443 million) in Internet-generated purchases this year, while business-to-business e-commerce will reach almost 4 billion rand, according to a survey by Acuity Media Africa. According to the “2nd South African Web Commerce Survey 1999,” consumer spending generated by the Web grew 140 percent in 1998, from […]

Seventy-five percent of online buyers will buy less on the Internet if sales taxes are instituted on the World Wide Web, according to a survey by BizRate.com. BizRate’s Flash Survey compiled feedback from nearly 7,000 online buyers regarding online sales and taxation to examine the possible impact of a tax on e-commerce sales. The survey […]

Online radio listeners are far more interactive while surfing the Internet than Web users who have not tuned into an online audio streamer, according to a study by Arbitron NewMedia and Edison Media Research. The study found there is a significant difference in behavior between those that have listened to audio online and those who […]

Intranets are increasingly becoming an integral component of an organization’s information technology infrastructure, according to a survey by International Data Corp. According IDC’s report “US Intranet Usage and User Intentions, 1998-1999,” companies’ use of intranets is expanding to include more applications. “The intranet is beginning a critical change in its evolution,” said Mike Comiskey, an […]

After nearly two years of interoperability problems, sketchy deployment, and equipment upgrades, the performance of 56K V.90-standard modems is finally delivering in the real world, according to a study by Inverse Network Technology. Since the introduction of V.90 technology in October 1997, end-users have been plagued with a myriad of problems. The end-users modems began […]

Internet use has yet to reach the mainstream in Croatia, according to a study by IPSA. Nearly one-fourth of the Croatian population has never heard of the Internet, and 28 percent have heard of it but aren’t really sure what it is, said the report. IPSA also found that 12 percent of Croatians have used […]