Archive for November 9th, 2006

  • Letters to God Create Outrage on eBay

    Public outcry has led an Atlantic City, N.J., man to remove a bag of letters to God he found on the beach from the online eBay auction Web site.
    Bill Lacovara said bidding had reached $550, but outrage was higher that he would auction intimate documents written as long ago as 1973, the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger […]

  • Skype 3.0 Beta to be Released

    Skype today announced a Beta version of its free VoIP software that sports a more streamlined user interface along with Click to Call and Skypecasting features.
    The Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows announcement was made on the Skype Beta blog and warns users that it is only recommended for experienced users.
    According to Jaanus on the Skype […]

  • Google Checkout Still Trying to Compete with PayPal

    Google Inc. has begun making its Google Checkout online-payment feature available for free to merchants that choose to make it a payment option on their Web sites.
    The Checkout-for-free promotion runs between Wednesday and Dec. 31, taking in the holiday-shopping season, according to Google spokeswoman Megan Lamb. Typically, Google charges a fee of 20 cents per […]

  • New Internet Scams Hit eBay

    Just when you think you’ve heard it all, there is a new email version of an old Internet scam.
    “Scam artists have now gravitated from the mails to the Internet,” said FBI Director Robert Mueller.

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    Mueller was in Indianapolis just last week, warning Hoosiers about the potential dangers lurking in […]

  • eBay Partners with Baidu For Chinese Market

    CHINESE web search leader Baidu and Eachnet, the Chinese auction site of eBay, said they had expanded their partnership, one of three such alliances in the world’s second biggest internet market.
    Under the agreement, Baidu will promote PayPal Beibao, the online payments service of eBay in China, and will become the exclusive provider of text-based search […]