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Oracle toots its own horn in auto-exchange deal
News The venture, which also includes DaimlerChrysler, Nissan Motor and Renault, on Monday became a corporate entity, allowing it to begin charging for participation in online auctions. The marketplace, which is expected to handle several hundred...
[December 13, 2000, 14:05]
Yahoo! to impose auction transaction fee
News is changing the way it charges for its auctions, introducing a transaction fee for the first time. saw its listings plunge after it began charging listing fees for its auctions in January. See the Internet News Section for full coverage.
[November 6, 2001, 14:41]
More 3G sales lined up for this year
News European 3G auctions have already levied billions of pounds of fees and by the end are expected to cost telcos around 110bn euros (£69bn), according to Forrester Research. G licences, selling the right to use a high-speed wireless technology called...
[February 16, 2001, 14:28]
Website-based malware hits all-time high
News The financial-services industry is the most targeted sector for phishing attacks, followed by those focusing on auctions and payment services, the report found. As the economy degrades, we are seeing a continual increase in malicious and criminal...
[December 11, 2008, 13:50]
Two men brought in by police in eBay fraud schemes
News In April, for instance, a group of sports collectors sued eBay, charging that the auction giant knew about auctions of fake sports memorabilia but did little to stop them. We are vigorously pursuing these investigations to protect commerce on the...
[December 27, 2000, 11:34]
eBay worm spreads
News If you're the winner of Multiple Item Auctions, you can get the following thing… 1.a notebook that worth 18000$.a camara […] worth 1000$". Inexperienced malware coders -- 'script kiddies' -- often use one of the popular packing programs available...
[October 26, 2004, 11:10]
Google revamps Desktop
News New plug-ins allow people to include modules in their Sidebar that track eBay auctions, receive job postings and monitor rush hour traffic. People who regularly use several computers can now use Google Desktop to search for items stored on multiple...
[February 9, 2006, 9:15]
Sky high price fear for German 3G auction confirmed
News Nigel Deighton, analyst with research firm GartnerGroup believes bidders in the European auctions are playing a dangerous version of Russian roulette. Mobile will drive the Internet to focus more on mobile users.
[August 15, 2000, 12:28]
Has Skype been cracked?
News Less than a year ago, Skype was bought by eBay, which aims to use it as a communications tool within its online auctions. According to Charlie Paglee, the chief executive of a Chinese-American Internet telephony (VoIP) company called Vozin...
[July 14, 2006, 17:00]
Google Home review
Reviews Google's Gadgets include a world clock, lunar phase, eBay auctions, religious verses, to-do lists, stock quotes, space photos from NASA, yellow pages, Del.icio.us links, and maps. When looking up new modules for the home page, just make sure to...
[October 9, 2006, 9:35]
Yahoo! concedes Europe auctions to eBay
News will close five of its auction sites in Europe and instead promote eBay's competing auctions as part of an agreement the companies announced on Wednesday. has had its own struggles with auctions. launched a new Internet access service in the US...
[May 23, 2002, 8:50]
Going, going, gone....engineers for sale
News Unlike most auctions -- in which the money is paid after the winning bid is selected -- Kevin believes that any potential employer would settle up by paying out in salaries. Kevin admitted that he's never bought anything from eBay before, but has...
[April 29, 1999, 10:14]
EC calls for 3G over 2G spectrum
News Even more space could become available for 3G services next year when Ofcom auctions off 192MHz of spectrum around the 2.6GHz frequency. Those operators have pointed out that lower frequencies allow the signal to be transmitted over greater...
[July 26, 2007, 13:26]
EC refuses to relax 3G rules
News This pleading has not found favour with the EC, though, which has firmly rejected the idea of giving back any of the money raised through 3G auctions or beauty contests. The high speeds of GPRS and 3G networks mean Internet browsing on the move is...
[June 12, 2002, 15:38]
MPs urge more action on wireless broadband
News The government has not released the 'sweet spot' 2GHz spectrum," said Sir George, adding that the government had to make a decision between concentrating on making the maximum revenue through spectrum auctions and on making appropriate spectrum...
[March 26, 2003, 8:05]
Corporations find bargains in basements of eBay
News Some of our customers were doing business on eBay on an ad hoc basis, doing some auctions to get rid of excess inventory and end-of-life assets that they couldn't otherwise get rid of," said Ajit Nazre, managing director of the SAP unit that runs...
[September 5, 2003, 12:25]
Online businesses feel impact of attack
News both announced a ban on such items and cancelled the auctions. The Red Cross also directed some visitors to Helping.org, a nonprofit group set up by Internet and media giant AOL Time Warner, which lets people make online donations to a variety of...
[September 13, 2001, 9:36]
Google Desktop 4 beta review
Reviews Pop in a laundry timer, live lottery results or the progress of eBay auctions. Google's Desktop Search will turn up email from Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail and Netscape Mail; IM chats from Google Talk, MSN Messenger, and AIM; multimedia content...
[June 23, 2006, 11:45]
2007: The year in communications
News No big decisions were taken in 2007 for mobile broadband — next year's spectrum auctions will contribute towards that — but it has been a year of rapid progression for WiMax, which is now being deployed as an alternative to wired broadband in...
[December 21, 2007, 15:15]
The Day Ahead: You'll have a cow over this B2B IPO
News EMerge provides cattle sales and auctions, performance analyses of a customer's feedlot operations, industry analysis, cattle inventory tools and livestock health products. Ninety percent of eMerge's sales derived from online cattle auctions.
[February 2, 2000, 11:36]
