Google and eBay have joined forces to protect users from spam and malicious emails by leveraging an authentication technology called DomainKeys.

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EBay has suffered some hard times of late, but has pushed hard offering new growth strategies like user-created seller software. However, a new court ruling in France may undermine eBay’s efforts by cutting out a large portion of its business.On eBay, a number of designer brand name purses, accessories, and perfumes sell every day. [...]

If it is upheld, a French court ruling that fined eBay $61 million for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods could have a significant effect on how the company runs its business in the future, legal analysts said.
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WANT to browse the internet, update your Facebook profile, answer emails, do some eBay shopping and add to your MySpace blog from your car?Technology to bring the information superhighway to our real highways is on the way, though not all car makers see eye to eye and the risk of driver distraction is already raising [...]

A French court has fined eBay $61 million for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods on its Web site. Ebay said it will fight the ruling.
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As the file-sharing battlefield begins to simmer, BitTorrent indexing sites are armoring up with SSL encryption, hoping to ward off the oncoming battle with ISPs and the litany of copyright enforcement agents. isoHunt and The Pirate Bay, two of the largest and most popular BitTorrent sites, have recently incorporated encryption in hopes of offering their [...]

VeriSign, a provider of internet infrastructure services, has been selected by Microsoft as an OpenID provider for users of HealthVault, a free service that enables consumers to store and manage their health information online.Acceptance of VeriSign’s OpenIDs secured by the VeriSign Identity Protection Service is expected to give consumers choice when signing into Microsoft HealthVault [...]

Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world?s defenses against cyber-terrorismDubbed by organisers as ?the largest ministerial-level gathering ever organised about cyber-terrorism?, the World Cyber Security Summit (WCSS), was recenlty held in Malaysia. Hosted by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (IMPACT), government representatives from all over the globe [...]

Jeremiah Joseph Mondello, a 23-year-old Oregon man, today pleaded guilty to several federal charges related to the illegal sale on eBay of more than $1 million of pirated software online.

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Craigslist has countersued eBay, accusing the online auction site of false advertising, trademark infringement and other wrongdoings.

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EBay claims Craiglist secretly plotted to dilute eBay’s share in the online classified site, according to details of eBay’s lawsuit.

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Craiglist responds to a lawsuit from eBay, which owns a 28% stake in the online classifieds site.

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