EBay Ends Same-Day Delivery in U.S. in Face of Amazon Effort

EBay Ends Same-Day Delivery in U.S. in Face of Amazon Effort

EBay Ends Same-Day Delivery in U.S. in Face of Amazon Effort

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BlackBerry Not In Motion In U.S. Smartphone Market

By BOB Goswami
December 17, 2011

PERSPECTIVE - Seems BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has bad news in the U.S. market. If not, simply ask Joh Donahoe, Chief Executive of eBay, world's biggest online auction site.

A few months ago there were hundred engineers at eBay to develop new iterations of its shopping app for iPhone of Apple Inc. About another hundred are working in developing apps for Android mobile platform of Google. More to this, about other fifty engineers were busy developing Microsoft's Windows phones apps.

What about RIM's BalckBerry?

According to Mr Donahoe, there are only "one or two" its people developing apps for BlackBerry.

At an event this year in June at Stanford University when RIM's subject came up, he told to a group of chief technology officers, "I still use the BlackBerry, but it's not the most developer-friendly platform."

In early November it was seen that he wasn't using BB much any more. Meeting press people then to talk about the holiday shopping season plans he whipped out his iPhone and showed eBay's apps running on it.

More similar stories are common these days among the once-loyal corporate customers of RIM.

On Thursday RIM posted quarterly profit sharply lower than before. The holiday season's BlackBerry shipments were offered a dismal forecast, and also the arrival of new phones has been delayed.

Isn't it frustrating that all the BlackBerry customers haven't also heard anything good from RIM in a long time? If the company doesn’t come up with something new soon then would they become the next palm?

On Friday the price of RIM stock fell on Nasdaq by 11 percent. It was lowest in about eight years.

According to the forecast of Strategy Analytics, the shares of RIM in U.S. smartphone market to go down to 12 percent this year, which is a sharp drop from 2007. Apple is expected to take a 24 percent share this year in the U.S. smartphone market.

RIM had 44 percent share in U.S. smartphone market in 2007. Then Apple had just started selling smartphones.

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December 17, 2011 | 0 comments

Modern Warfare 3 Hits Shelves Ahead Nov. 8 Launch

By STAFF Writer
November 05, 2011

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, scheduled to be launched November 8, hits the K-Mart shelves this week at least six days ahead of schedule.

A quick check on eBay also revealed a bunch of Modern Warfare 3 titles available for purchase with higher price. The list price of the game is $59.99, but on eBay the title is available in top bids up to $80.

However, Xbox Live Director of Policy and Enforcement, Stephen Toulouse tweeted, "Mw3 pre-release play not authorized. So pls be patient. Playing early may impact your account!"

Last year in November, the Call of Duty: Black Ops was the fastest-selling video game and it also became the most profitable entertainment product of Activision. The developer says the sales of Modern Warfare 3 may reach even higher.

Latest Modern Warfare 3 Offers:

Best Buy giving away free smartphones with purchase of Modern Warfare 3.

Amazon Discounts COD:MW3 Digital Download via $10 Promo.

Latest Modern Warfare 3 News:

Walmart to hold 'Modern Warfare 3' experience for Monday launch.

Dutch Porn Star Awkwardly Uninvited From Modern Warfare 3 Launch Party.

$1.1bn 6-Week Sales Predicted for Modern Warfare 3.




Modern Warfare 3 Photos and Trailer

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November 05, 2011 | 0 comments

WikiLeaks Memorabilia Goes On Sale To Raise Funds

By CITIJEN Journalist (CJ)
September 19, 2011

WORLD NEWS - Do you want the Whistleblower WikiLeaks’ laptop computer that was the "Cablegate" compiling uncountable numbers of secret cables of government across the world and embarrassed Obama and many leaders of several nations?

Yes, roll up - roll up! The memorabilia of the Assange cult has begun, just begun getting auctioned on eBay.

At £6,000 the laptop is on sale on eBay, and at £2,100 a signed version of those famous diplomatic cables can be yours. There are more it has been heard. At £240 a sachet of prison coffee is being sold. It is the same coffee that once purloined by Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks, which is funded by donations, announced last Friday that the auctions on eBay have begun to raise money. It said that this is an effort by the Whistleblower to replace cash lost during an "unlawful financial embargo" that included refusal of payments process to its accounts by Bank of America, Mastercard, Visa, Western Union and PayPal.

The auction offered by WikiLeaks are:

CableGate preparation computer

This is the same database machine that allowed its team to search full set of cables and extract it to be sent to the media organisations throughout the world in encrypted form.

Signed and fingerprinted Julian Assange's prison coffee sachet

This is a scarce item of memorabilia, which was used by Julian Assange in prison before going under house arrest in Norfolk. Assange smuggled these three coffee sachets after leaving the prison. All the three sachets are unopened.

Signed and fingerprinted cable on UN spying

This cable reveals Hillary Clinton asking her diplomats to spy on UN officials, including Ban Ki-moon's DNA. On the cable Assange has also written the slogan of WikiLeaks: "Courage is Contagious."

Julian Assange's signed photograph

This is the exclusive photograph of Julian Assange sized 13cm x 18cm. The photo of the WikiLeaks founder was taken at Ellingham Hall where he was under house arrest.




Julian Assange Photo Gallery

Julian Assange Poster

Julian Assange in a press conference

Julian Assange with lawyer Jennifer Robinson

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September 19, 2011 | 0 comments