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Article | 17/05/2013 New iPhone: Sapphire crystal fingerprint scanner 'to be embedded in home button'
There have been plenty of rumours circulating that Apple is planning to incorporate fingerprint readers into the new iPhone, and now confirmation that...
Article | 16/05/2013 NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet
E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems wo...
Article | 18/04/2013 US Senate moves toward Internet sales tax vote
The U.S. Senate has moved toward a vote to impose sales tax on most Internet purchases, with lawmakers likely to vote to close debate on legislation n...
Article | 18/04/2013 Google Glass hits eBay pushing $100k
Google has started giving out test samples of Google Glass to keen enthusiasts but that hasn't stopped the gadget popping up on eBay.
Article | 19/03/2013 Supreme Court reaffirms resale of copyright works
U.S. residents have the right to resell software and other products protected by copyright even when they are manufactured overseas, the U.S. Supreme ...
Article | 6/03/2013 EBay develops 'miles per gallon' metric for data centers
There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement syst...
Article | 5/12/2012 Law enforcement agencies arrest six in online auto sales fraud
Police in Romania, the Czech Republic, the U.K. and Canada have arrested six Romanian citizens accused of advertising and selling nonexistent automobi...
Article | 16/11/2012 US accuses eBay of illegal no-hiring deal with Intuit
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing eBay of entering into a "handshake" agreement to not recruit or hire employees of software...
Article | 12/11/2012 EBay returns to China with new site focused on selling clothing
EBay launched a new e-commerce business in China with a local partner on Monday, marking the company's re-entry into an ultra-competitive market that ...
Article | 1/11/2012 Possible partnership hints at eBay making moves in China
A Chinese e-commerce vendor said on Thursday the company is entering into a partnership with eBay, in a sign that the U.S. Internet firm may be prepar...
Article | 29/10/2012 Lawyer: Buyers have the right to resell copyright-protected works
U.S. residents who buy products protected by copyright shouldn't have to worry about where those products were manufactured before reselling them, a l...
Article | 26/10/2012 US Supreme Court to look at NSA spying, resale of products
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two cases with potentially broad implications to technology users, one reviewing whether consumer...
Article | 23/12/2011 EBay buys BillSafe for 'purchase-on-invoice' technology
EBay has purchased German vendor BillSafe to complement its PayPal online payment system, the company announced Thursday. Terms were not disclosed.
Article | 14/12/2011 CEA switches positions, now supports Internet sales tax
The Consumer Electronics Association has switched its position on Internet sales taxes, with the huge trade group now supporting the collection of the...
Article | 12/12/2011 Refurbished HP TouchPad fire sale is happening this Sunday
Just when we thought the $99 Hewlett-Packard TouchPad was gone forever, the tablet that refuses to die is coming back for one last sale, according to ...