Archive for February, 2007

According to Quick Jump, Skype could be making it’s way to the Playstation Portable in the foreseeable future. They went searching in the PSP’s encrypted firmware (Firmware 3.10) and found traces that some form of VoIP functionality will be enabled soon.

Skype may be coming to the PSP | Gadgetell

According to Quick Jump, Skype could be making it’s way to the Playstation Portable in the foreseeable future. They went searching in the PSP’s encrypted firmware (Firmware 3.10) and found traces that some form of VoIP functionality will be enabled soon.

Skype may be coming to the PSP | Gadgetell

Internet auction site eBay Inc. said Tuesday it completed its purchase of online ticket broker StubHub Inc.
The $307 million cash deal, announced last month, is designed to provide growth for the Internet auctioneer. EBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people )’s market value has plunged by nearly 50 percent, or $37 billion, over the past [...]

EBay is ratcheting up its use of Yahoo search advertising to help boost buyer activity after initial U.S. testing produced positive results, an executive of the auction site said on Tuesday.
The online auctioneer has found few conflicts between these ads and traffic to existing sellers, Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan told investors at a Merrill [...]

This week’s Carnival is being hosted by Ty Tribble of eBay Business Opportunities and we have 10 articles for your review.
This is the first week for Ty Tribble to host the Carnival of eBay Sellers and he’ll be doing it for the entire month of February.
So here we go with this week’s 10 submissions:
Mike Fisher [...]

It is easy to begin selling items on eBay, and almost anyone can register to do so. However, the difficult part is coming up with an idea that will offer a profitable return on investment. You have to plan carefully to be sure that you will profit from your eBay business venture, and this means [...]

There are several scams circulating the phone lines, snail mail and of course the internet. Internet scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and more and more realistic. These so called phishing scams can come up on anyone’s email account, and a lot of them look legit and are complete with logos.
“They used to do it on [...]

Online auctioneer eBay Inc. is in talks to supply electronic payments and auction features to the popular MySpace social network and other New Corp.’s online properties, according to people familiar with the situation.
The negotiations have been ongoing for months, a source said, but no deals have yet been reached.
The potential tie-up of two Internet behemoths [...]

StreamCast Networks, developer of Morpheus file-sharing software, lost its $4.1 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Skype and parent eBay. StreamCast claimed that Skype’s founders broke an agreement to give StreamCast the right of first refusal to Skype’s VoIP phone technology. The founder had been with Kazaa at the time.
The judge ruled that StreamCast [...]

A school in Bartlesville, Okla., is letting eBay bidders decide just what a year’s education is worth.
Oklahoma Wesleyan University is auctioning off a year of tuition, room and board, KOTV, Oklahoma City, reported. Usually, tuition alone costs $23,000, but the school hopes the auction allows someone big savings. With a few days to go, the [...]