Ebay

Auction giant eBay is adopting Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance, according to news from the Wordwide Partner Conference going on now in D.C. The appliance is “a turnkey cloud platform” that consists of Windows Azure, SQL Azure and a Microsoft-specified configuration of network,…

John grabs a few minutes with Dave Wolf of Cynergy to talk about the eBay Simple Lister application, one of the first publicly available Silverlight 4 out of browser applications. Dave discusses the process of how designing and developing the Silverlight 4 application was simplified…

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, online auction site eBay has announced they’re partnering with Microsoft to launch a special Internet Explorer web slice for finding the best daily deals. Web slices, features unique to the IE8 browser, allow sites to create special buttons that display…

About to click “buy it now” in eBay? Wait! Before you do so, did you know that if you do a search on Live.com that results in a sponsored link click-through to eBay, you can get 25% off the item you purchase if it’s a Buy-it-now auction? To get this deal, just go to www.live.com and do a web…

First thing's first, no one was reported injured when an explosive device detonated at the Ebay/PayPal HQ in San Jose last night. One window blew out into the night sky, but otherwise there were just a lot of rustled feathers of the two dozen employees shirking their trick or treat responsibilities…

Into eBay, but not interested in hanging around your computer waiting to jump in and snipe that last second bid? Well, now you can bid on auctions with your TV remote! I was down in Las Vegas for the Ebay Developers Conference and I met up with Christoph Buenger from Scendix. Scendix specializes in…