Vodafone will now be selling some of its pay-as-you-go products through vending machines.
Each QuickPhone kiosk will offer a choice of three phones for sale, for between 30 pounds and 60 pounds ($53.47 and $106.95), as well as SIM (subscriber identity module) card-only packs for 5 pounds ($8.91).
The first two phone-spouting machines will be put […]

The search engine Jux2 has put itself up for sale on the auction Web site eBay, a sign of the times for the hyper-competitive search industry.
Winning bid: US $101,100.00
avianflu22 bid up to US $85,000.00
I wonder if it really sold?

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Skype Technologies updated its popular Skype Internet telephony software on Tuesday to fix a pair of security bugs. The most serious flaw could allow an attacker to commandeer a user’s PC.
That flaw, which is similar to a bug Skype fixed last year, affects only Skype for Windows. An attacker could exploit the flaw by crafting […]

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Google on Tuesday appeared close to launching a service called Google Base that would pit the search giant against eBay, Amazon, and Craigslist by allowing users to list everything from used cars to real estate.
 
A screen shot of the service appeared on several web sites, although Google appears to have blocked access to the page shortly […]

Elevator:2010 is designed to address the “social engineering” of the Space Elevator.
“Our flagship competition event, the climber competition challenges university, enthusiasts and private industry teams to design and build the best possible Space Elevator climber prototype.
We provide the race track, in the form of a crane-suspended vertical ribbon (and other support hardware), and the teams […]

Theres an auction running on www.ebay.co.uk for a number plate reading GOO61E – with a £15,000 starting price on it – claiming to be the only Google plate out there!
eBay Auction Link

Consumers angry about what they say is the iPod nano screen’s tendency to scratch easily have filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple Computer, saying they want their money back plus a share of the company’s profits on the music player’s sales.
 
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California in […]

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