Research In Motion Ltd. and Yahoo! Inc. are supporting eBay Inc.’s U.S. Supreme Court bid to make it harder to force companies that infringe patents to change their products to avoid future violationsEBay, the world’s biggest Internet auction house, is appealing a lower court ruling that said trial judges, after finding a violation of patent [...]

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Wisconsin-Auctions.com has announced it’s official launch date – February 17th, 2006. The company is a Wisconsin-based online listing service which is free for the public to use. The site has a searchable database of all public auctions including: auto auctions, farm auctions, state auctions, government auctions, police auctions, motorcycle auctions, real estate auctions, land [...]

The auction brought in $12.2 million, a full million over last year’s total. 100 percent of the money raised will go go to help children.
Last year, 20 charities received $7.04 million of the $11.2 million raised. Tickets to the event cost $7,500 per couple.
Some of the highest bids included a 2006 silver-gray Continental Flying Spur [...]

More than 1,000 pieces of Joe DiMaggio memorabilia, including the New York Yankee baseball legend’s 1947 MVP Award and a set of World Series rings, will be auctioned off by his granddaughters this spring in New York, organizers said on Monday.
The Joe DiMaggio Collection, which also includes personal items from DiMaggio’s marriage to Hollywood film [...]

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Illinois-based Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announced today that it will continue its expansion as a national auction-industry leader by establishing permanent offices in Florida and Michigan. These offices represent the first two permanent presences for Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. outside of the company’s longtime home base in Oak Brook, Ill. as the [...]

In an auction that drew seven registered bidders, the county sold 332.436 acres of surplus land at U.S. 27 and Riverbend Road to Mark C. Woods Homes Inc., of Newnan. When Ben Hudson of Hudson & Marshall Auctioneers of Macon sounded the gavel, Woods had offered the high figure of $3,100 per acre for the [...]

American detectives hoping to question Neil Entwistle in person about the murder of his wife and daughter in Massachusetts have also begun inquiries into the Briton’s possible involvement in the murky world of internet pornography.
Officers have until now been only in telephone contact with Mr Entwistle, who has been staying with relatives in Nottinghamshire after [...]

Arrest warrants have been issued for two former Collier County residents who were allegedly involved in fraudulent internet auctions on the auction site eBay. The suspects, selling under the name Alisher 71, placed items up for auction, accepted payment, but never delivered the items.
 The two suspects, Alisher Mardonov and Shahnoza Khakimova, are Uzbekistan citizens and [...]

Auction Operators have switched plans for the Coachella Valley’s first permanent auto and golf cart auction to a site in northern Palm Springs.Local businessmen Tom Emmett and Paul Kouri have submitted plans to build their 10-acre auction center – which could eventually expand to 40 acres [...]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released their top 10 list on Wednesday and it’s got some interesting details. Identity theft topped the list and accounted for about 255,000 of the 686,000 complaints filed over 2005.
The FTC receives complaints via a toll free number or online and are share through a secure database of more than [...]

According to US newspaper MetroWest Daily News, one website, millionmaker.co.uk, which since yesterday morning was unavailable, promised a profit of 6,000 dollars a month within the first six month.
The company, which was registered to a Neil Entwistle in York, claimed to offer 24-hour, seven-day-a-week support to those with adult internet businesses, the newspaper said.
Another company [...]

A Rembrandt oil painting of an elderly woman, which was forgotten by scholars for decades, sold for $4.3 million today at Sotheby’s Holdings Inc. in New York.
The price exceeded the presale high estimate of $4 million. The circa 1640 painting, “Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet,” had not been published or exhibited [...]

From Friday, Maricopa County will become one of the largest counties in the country to put a tax-lien sale of this size entirely online.
“We wanted to make it easier for everyone,” County Treasurer David Schweikert said.
“The tax-lien sale, for our offices, is a classic example of (a couple of months of) chaos. So our theory [...]

eBay has banned the trade of smalltooth sawfish parts from its online auction sites, and scientific experts at Mote Marine Laboratory, the Ocean Conservancy and other agencies will help them identify questionable species.“This is a really important step for eBay to take because reducing the sale of smalltooth sawfish is one way to help the [...]

A businessman paid $25,451 in restitution and must perform 45 days of community service for failing to deliver products purchased from his company on eBay, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
“Although the bulk of Internet auctions are legitimate, this case serves to remind everyone that there are scammers out there in cyberspace ready to take your money [...]