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The UK Home Office has caused barely a ripple of noise as it has adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain to routinely hack into people’s personal computers without requiring a warrant. (01/05/2009)

On 31st December 2008 Meg Whitman formally resigned as a Director of eBay having remained on the Board since stepping down as CEO earlier in the year and making way for John Donahoe. (01/05/2009)

The son of the late zookeeper who personally nurtured the baby polar bear Knut at Berlin Zoo has cashed in on eBay using his father's popularity causing the German media to question the rights and wrongs of the memorabilia trade which some believe needs tighter regulation. (01/05/2009)

Pheebay's Passion Vine House takes a light hearted look at the process of article writing as part of the online marketing process. It's all about keywords right? (01/05/2009)

Here's our first list of unregistered domain names for 2009. At the time of posting all these domain names were still available for anyone to grab. (01/04/2009)

Invariably I buy more domain names than I can ever hope to find the time to develop properly. So I thought I would highlight some of the more interesting names I have to see if anyone out there in the UK blogosphere wants to take on these domains with a view to developing a good website. (01/04/2009)

After a short break for the holidays the Pheebay member's promotion of penny start auctions is resuming. Unlike the pay to bid penny auctions attracting so much negative publicity lately, these are real auctions where bidding for good items starts at just a penny and making bids is free. (01/03/2009)

In a forum post today WOGO - short for WantOneGotOne - has announced free easter eggs for all new UK sellers who join up and post their first auction or fixed price sale. (01/03/2009)

Pheebay member Passion Vine House recalls the difficulties of promoting sales pre-eBay and the lessons that sellers using today's crop of eBay alternatives may not have learned about marketing and advertising in the search for sales. (01/03/2009)

Scotland on Sunday’s Christmas Appeal auction conducted on eBay has raised more than £7,000 for charity including more than £1,000 for a shirt signed by the BBC Sports Personality of the year, Chris Hoy. (12/28/2008)

The charity auction website www.Charitable-Auctions.com is allowing use of their non profit auction services free until July 2009. It appears to be promoting a dropshipping arrangement to people and organisations seeking to raise funds. (12/27/2008)

The worldwide tour of the Credit Suisse international Art & Entrepreneurship exhibition reached the last stop in London on November 24 and also featured a charity auction of several exhibited pieces contributed by some of the most noteworthy artists. (12/24/2008)

Being keen to spot opportiunities for new websites I keep an active eye out for new domain names that offer potential. But I guess people like me will eventually always hit the problem. It's a great name but what do I do to develop it in to a website? (12/23/2008)

Once again authoritative blogs, analysts and comentators are singing eBay's woes based on falling traffic numbers but are they making assumptions on corrupt data? (12/23/2008)

Continuing our series of articles highlighting unregistered domain names. Today we offer another long list of auction related names anyone can register. We've highlighted names that could be used to host auction sites or prove useful for eBay affiliates. (12/20/2008)

The BBC has today reported concerns about the growing number of penny auction sites that sell bundles of bids for users to try and win high value items. In most cases the bidding revenue these sites earn can far exceed the value of the items on offer leading many people to believe these are more like lotteries rather than games of skill or true auctions. (12/20/2008)

Dinesh Lathi, eBay's Vice President Seller Experience, has reconfirmed some generous promotions running for sellers on eBay.com now thru March 31st 2009. Reduced listing fees, free listing upgrades and double final value fee discounts are all available. (12/19/2008)

We've been searching various domain ideas for online auctions today and prospective auction webmasters may be interested in one or more of these dot com domain names. (12/18/2008)

Kaminski Auctions, has announced its Holiday Estates Auction. The auction features a diverse array of fine art, antiques, collectibles and fine 18th and 19th Century Italian furnishings from descendants of Conte Gennaro Balamo. (12/18/2008)

Artfact Live! bidders will be able to watch all the auction floor action via streaming video and audio, and bid live online for fine art, coins, jewellery, toys, stamps, sports memorabilia and much more. (12/18/2008)

Continuing on with our regular lists of domain names available for anyone to register we provide another long list of dot com domains which are available at the time of posting. (12/17/2008)