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...firm got her a $630 selling price, and took just over $200 of that for itself. Welcome to the latest in eBay piggyback businesses. Fostered by eBay's breakneck growth in the U.S., leading independent drop-off businesses - offering to collect unwanted items through a network of store locations and trade them on eBay for a share of the sale price - are now shipping as many as 5,000 items per week in the U.S. And with eBay business outside of the U.S. now soaring - international transaction revenue leapt 64% to $344 million in the last quarter, compared with...
...telecom monopoly AT&T was forced to spin off its regional operators, Texas-based SBC Communications - one of the Baby Bells born of that breakup - last week agreed to buy AT&T for $16 billion. One possible reason: building international business. AT&T has pulled together a network of lucrative and loyal international business clients, points out Tim Dillon, principal analyst of European telecom services for Virginia-based Current Analysis. SBC, whose name is little known outside the U.S. , has dumped stakes in a string of European telecom operators over the last two years. So while SBC cheers the prospect...
...having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time--a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download it. All this means that the more popular the content, the more efficiently it zips through the network--bad news if you're a movie studio trying to thwart the trading of hit films like The Incredibles. Says Andrew Parker of the Web-tracking firm CacheLogic: "It has turned the download world on its head...
...Sometimes community service is a lonely venture,” he said. “But this is like a support network for people to trade strategies and approaches...
...with UHS pharmacists and other medical personnel. Until roughly two weeks ago, a company called PharmaCare provided UHS and its patients a means to store and access this information. Before intersession, Crimson reporters discovered a glitch in the system that allowed any internet user on Harvard’s network to generate a complete list of prescription medications purchased by individual students through the UHS pharmacy. The reporters used only the last name of a student and an ID number—easily obtained through other Harvard websites or from lost student ID cards— to access the PharmaCare...