Here is today's AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup.
"UPS accused of tipping the scales: Parcel firm denies overcharge claims," BY KATHERINE YUNG, Detroit Free Press, 10/24/07
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071024/BUSINESS06/710240412/1019
"Introducing New Hosted Payment Buttons," posted on the PayPal blog, 10/30/07
http://www.thepaypalblog.com/weblog/2007/10/introducing-new.html
"Successful Amazon Selling: An eBay PowerSeller's Tips," posted by Brad Schepp on American Chronicle, 10/25/07
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=41239
"StumbleUpon Gets into Search," posted by Liz Gannes on the GigaOm blog, 10/22/07
http://gigaom.com/2007/10/22/stumbleupon-gets-into-search
"Platforms want to be free," posted by Nicholas Carr on his Rough Type blog, 10/24/07
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/10/whats_a_platfor.php
"One Family's E-Commerce," by Jason Fry, Wall Street Journal, 10/29/07
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119317554812668927.html
"VoIP is Dead. It's just another feature, now," By Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 10/29/07
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/29/skype_3_analysis/
"Weak Dollar Draws Foreign Online Buyers," By MADLEN READ, AP, 10/30/07
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g4aOK0HuId1Q6oWOGzIM5h9Rtf_QD8SJNQ5G0
"EBay Has Its Eye on Southeast Asia: Sam McDonagh, director of eBay Southeast Asia, is optimistic about the online marketplace's growth prospects, not just in Singapore, but in the whole region," by Isabelle Chan, BusinessWeek, 10/29/07
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2007/gb20071029_295570.htm
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reporting that spoofed email messages that appear to come from the FTC contain malicious attachments. If you open one of these attachments you may infect your computer with a keystroke logger or other malicious code.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/alerts/SA07-303A.html
"Five new API features," posted by Prem Ramaswami on the Google Checkout blog, 10/30/07
http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2007/10/five-new-api-features.html
