A RARE first edition of James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses is set to make thousands of pounds after being discovered in a cardboard box full of bric-a-brac at a house in Wiltshire.
The Dublin-born writer’s classic masterpiece turned up at a home in the cathedral city of Salisbury while the owners were having a clear-out.
The rare [...]

The lengthy patent battle between e-commerce giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and a small firm that says it came up with the popular “Buy it Now” technology first will get a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday.
The focus of the hearing will be whether MercExchange should be granted an injunction barring eBay from using [...]

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FOR almost 50 years the Blue Peter badge has been coveted by generations of middle-class children as an emblem of hard work and achievement. The tiny piece of enamel with its distinctive ship logo has inspired thousands to help worthy causes, write letters, stories and poems and paint pictures to send in to [...]

Online payment company PayPal said on Wednesday it was preparing to offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging via mobile phones.
The move by PayPal, a unit of online auctioneer eBay Inc. (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research), marks a big step in bridging the worlds of e-commerce and the [...]

Online auction website eBay.ie has launched a new service to help protect users against ‘phishing’ e-mails which attempt to gain personal details from members.
The “My Messages” service is an attempt to get around the problem of spoof e-mails sent to customers purporting to come from eBay. Such messages often ask users for information such as [...]