Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Tuesday, September 20, 2005.

"Trade Me partners with ASB in mortgage auction," National Business Review (New Zealand), 9/19/05
http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=12936&cid=3&cname=Technology

"Marketers pop up on eBay," By Theresa Howard, USA Today, 9/18/05
http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/adtrack/2005-09-18-wendys-ebay_x.htm

"With PayPal Backing, Will Micropayments Work This Time?" By Evan Schuman, CIO Insight, 9/12/05
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,1857615,00.asp

"Internet tax could net state $440 million," by Walter Rubel," Las Cruces Sun-News, 9/18/05
http://www.lcsun-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/221/19428

"Florida Woman Wins Online Auction," By GARANCE BURKE, (AP), SFGate.com
(She won the right to name a character in a Stephen King novel.)
http://digbig.com/4eqrb

"ANALYSIS: Speak directly into the screen - Internet merchants ramp up online phone technology," by Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/19/05 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/19/BUGBPEO73P1.DTL

"Skype's "Aha!" Experience: Co-founder Niklas Zennstrom explains why he and Janus Friis overcame their initial skepticism and sold out to eBay," BusinessWeek, 9/19/05
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050919_2468.htm

"Laptop with UC data recovered," by Matt Krupnick, (Contra Costa Times), Monterey County Herald, 9/19/05
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/12662081.htm

Off-topic but uplifting:
"Katrina Donations Pass $1 Billion Mark," By ALEKSANDRS ROZENS (AP), Washington Post, 9/19/05
http://digbig.com/4eqqy