Archive for October, 2007

  Swissinfo

Criminals are increasingly using the internet telephone service Skype to prevent their conversations being monitored, Swiss law enforcement officials have warned.
Investigators are currently pursuing dozens of drug-related cases where Skype has been used for communications purposes. But the firm is keeping quiet over the issue.
 
Skype software lets computer users talk to each other for free […]

 Washingtonpost.com
There’s more to e-commerce than assembling a flashy Web site. If a business wants to sell products or services online, it has to figure out how to accept electronic payments.
For small firms working on a tight budget, a customized e-payment system may be out of reach. Enter PayPal, the online payment service owned by auction […]

 iTwire
Yahoo Mail is today applying the DomainKeys authentication technology to block emails purporting to be from eBay or PayPal.
DomainKeys allows an email server to verify that an email really did originate from the domain it claims to be from. So a phishing email coming from a zombie PC connected to an ISP cannot include a […]

 Associated Press
 An eBay executive warned Wednesday that fewer small businesses would sell products through the Web auctioneer, and elsewhere online, without a permanent ban on Internet access taxes.
Congress first imposed a moratorium on taxing Internet access — which bars state and local governments from taxing the connection to basic Internet content — in 1998. Since […]

 Kansascity.com
EBay Inc. said sellers who inadvertently are listing recalled items will be sent a message from the company with a copy of its policy forbidding such sales.
“Listing items on eBay which have been recalled is strictly prohibited, and if the Consumer Product Safety Commission asks eBay to remove an item, we will take it down,” […]

 Rapid TV News
Skype’s co-founders have – almost - left the building!
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the co-founders of VoIP service Skype have resigned, and there are signs that all is not well at eBay which paid a mind-numbing pile of cash for Skype. The inventive paid are also the brains behind web-based download service Joost. […]

 Internet Financial News
Business Week and the Wall Street Journal are all over eBays latest word on Skype”and that looks to be Whoops. After paying $1.3 billion cash…
…and $1.3 billion stock two years ago, eBay is regretting its decision and partnering with Skype rival Jajah.
eBay reports that theyll be taking a 3rd quarter impairment charge of […]