Archive for July 24th, 2006
Business Idea: Wedding Webcasts
USA Today: “Forget stiff folding chairs and church pews: The preferred perch for increasing numbers of wedding guests is their own comfy couch or La-Z-Boy. Faraway friends and family are plopping down at home to watch couples walk down aisles — and across bandwidth. Like the wedding Web page before it, the wedding webcast has [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Names@Work.
Four Vendors Hop on the Skype Band Wagon
IT Wire Four vendors – Belkin, Edge-Core, Netgear and SMC – have launched WiFi phones with an embedded Skype softphone enabling calls to be made from any WiFi hotspot to which users have access. Factor in Skype’s deal with global hotspot operator Boingo, announced last July and things could get really interesting. According to Skype, [...]
Google Gives PayPal some Competition
Christian Science Monitor Shoppers browsing online for new designer sunglasses or that ultrathin cellphone have a new temptation: a speedy-looking blue shopping-cart icon offering to whisk them to a purchase. Last month, Google, by far the most popular way to find things on the Internet (it processes about 45 percent of all searches), added Google [...]
Keanu Reeves Bed Up for Auction on eBay
Zee News Washington, July 23: The bed on which actor Keanu Reeves and his ex-girlfriend reportedly shared a number of mush moments is up for sale on eBay. The money will go towards paying a girl’s college tuition fee. The Bali-inspired craftsman`s bed belonged to one of Reeves` former girlfriends, who passed it on to [...]
eBay Store Sellers Try to Strike Back
AuctionBytes eBay Store owners posting on discussion boards last week reacted strongly to eBay’s announced fee increases. Sellers are considering various options, from “clearing out deadwood” inventory, to taking the drastic action of closing their Stores. eBay is increasing both listing and commission (Final Value) fees for Store inventory effective August 22. Listing fees will [...]
eBay Drop Off Stores a Popular Convience
Miami Herald When the company where Mike Jalali worked went bankrupt in 2004, he was left with two trailers full of audiovisual and electronic equipment. He didn’t have enough storage space in his Weston home, and desperately needed to get rid of the stuff. He turned to eBay, the online auction site, for help. But [...]
