Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Thursday, January 6, 2005.

Industry News & Trends

eBay Motors was down for an hour Wednesday morning.
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml#2005-01-05122131

"Waiting Out A Patent Fight With Ebay," By Ellen McCarthy, 1/6/05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51969-2005Jan5.html

"WPP Group's Axelrod Heads to eBay," By Kathleen Sampey, Adweek, 1/5/05
http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000747150

Top intellectual property issues and cases of 2005, according to Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., include the decision on Tiffany's trademark-infringement lawsuit against eBay.
Press Release issued by Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Boston, on 1/5/05 on Marketwire.com
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=78461

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

"eBay Allows New Auction for Young Cancer Patient" (AP), ABC 7 News, 1/6/05 http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0105/198620.html

"Redondo couple puts screenplay on eBay," Daily Breeze, 1/6/05 http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1326906.html

Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues

A must-read if concerned about online fraud and security.
"Russian Roulette," by Art Jahnke, CSO Magazine, January
2005http://www.csoonline.com/read/010105/russian.html

"From Russia with malice: Organised online crime has risen dramatically in the former Soviet Union - and it's still growing," by Daniel Thomas (Computing), VNUnet 1/5/05
http://www.vnunet.com/analysis/1160302

Miscellaneous

Excellent article on technology and the tsunami.
"The Tsunami as a Wake-Up Call to Bridging the Digital Divide," posted by Andy Carvin, Digital Divide Network Blog, 1/4/05
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=84
A podcast (audio) version (It's just over six minutes long and takes up seven megabytes.)
http://www.andycarvin.com/podcasts/tsunami-divide.mp3