Archive for May, 2006

InsideEonline:
Keira Knightley’s donated Oscar gown, which the charity Oxfam had been auctioning off on eBay since April 21st, sold for more than C$8,700 on Monday (May 1) when the bidding was extended due to the positive response.
The one-shoulder, deep-claret taffeta gown was custom-made for the ‘Pride & Prejudice’ star (who was up for the Best [...]

webpronews:
After we reported on the threat Microsoft could present to Google through exposure of typo-squatting on misspelled domains, the issue gained more prominence with the Washington Post’s focus on the Google side of the equation.
Google and firms like Netster and Sedoparking have benefited from the mass registration of misspelled domain names, and the placement of [...]

Times Online:
IF YOU want to sell your soul, a lawyer is a good person to ask for advice. A young man from Jiaxing, near Shanghai, failed to take legal advice before putting up his soul for sale on an online auction site. The posting was removed by the auctioneer, and the seller was told that [...]

longislandpress:
During the Internet boom, when everyone was a millionaire and life felt like every day was your birthday (complete with apple cobbler and ice cream on top), Congress was afraid that the party would come crashing down, or the cops would bust it up, or the lacrosse team would ruin everything. So they made online [...]

gigwise:
The Arctic Monkeys have taken control on their own Myspace page after a fan tried to sell it on eBay.
Apparently the person responsible for the band’s Myspace site tried to make a quick buck by cashing in on the Monkey’s success by launching an online auction.
A statement on the Monkey’s official website reads, “The Arctic [...]

pal-item.com:
Calling all eBay fanatics or first-timers.
The Richmond Post Office will conduct an eBay Day on Wednesday.
The event is designed to teach eBay users how to make the service, and the U.S. Postal Service, work harder for them. The day will feature quick and convenient online shipping options the Postal Service offers eBay users.

Brocktown News:
A Chinese businessman has bought a MiG-21f plane from a U.S. seller on the online auction Web site eBay for $24,730 and plans to use it to decorate an empty space at his offices, a newspaper reported Sunday.
“I like to collect valuable items. I have the buying power and my company has an empty [...]

Autoblog:
As an automaker best known for its voluptuous, curvy coupes, the Aston Martin Lagonda is a knife-edged enigma. The origami aggression of its exterior, its tech-laden interior, along with the sheer scale of the thing (over 17′ long) must’ve made it look like an aluminum-skinned spaceship when it hit the show scene in 1976. [...]