Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Thursday, May 20, 2005.

Industry News & Trends

"Bid on this: eBay on cable TV: Online auctioneer strikes deal with Time Warner Cable to let customers make bids through their TVs," (Reuters), CNN Money, 5/19/05
http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/19/technology/ebay_timewarner.reut/?cnn=yes

"eBay comes to cable TV" (commentary), by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 5/19/05
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/19/ebay_on_cable_tv

"China's Taobao.com to outstrip EBay 2005 China sales target - Alibaba CEO," (AFX) Forbes, 5/19/05
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2005/05/19/afx2040029.html

"EBay's China Sales May Rise to $400 Mln in 2005, Whitman Says," by Allen T. Cheng, Bloomberg, 5/19/05
http://digbig.com/4dmdw

"PayPal Looks To Evolve Beyond Its Auction Roots," By Leslie Walker, Washington Post, 5/19/05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/18/AR2005051802187.html

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

"New Jersey college student auctions her body on eBay," (AP), Newsday, 5/19/05 http://digbig.com/4dmfn

Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues

"Fake Callaway Clubs, Made in China, Swindle Web Buyer," by Grant Clark, Bloomberg, 5/18/05
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=a4aFwLvxsD48

"Paris Hilton Hack Started With Old-Fashioned Con: Source Says Hacker Posed as T-Mobile Employee to Get Access to Information, By Brian Krebs, Washingtonpost.com, 5/19/05
http://digbig.com/4dmfm