Archive for July, 2006

Norwich Union and eBay launch online insurance

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

eBayyer.co.uk
UK insurer Norwich Union is teaming with electronic auction house eBay to establish an online insurance centre that will provide eBay customers with information and quotes on motor, home and travel insurance.
Norwich Union says eBay’s 15 million UK customers will be able to click through to the insurance centre via a series of ads featured […]

Arsenal Highbury Stadium Auction

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Arsenal’s Highbury Stadium will stage its final event tomorrow when 600 items, including goalposts and a waxwork image of former coach George Graham, are auctioned before the soccer venue is turned into luxury apartments.
Locker-room clothes hooks, dugout benches and chairs from the coach’s office will also go under the hammer a week after the team […]

Casino Royale script found

Friday, July 28th, 2006

A secret script for a “breathtaking” scene from new 007 film ‘Casino Royale’ has been found abandoned in a pub.
A baffled member of the public came across the 19-page storyboard in the Three Compasses pub in Surrey, England, which is near an aerodrome where the spectacular scene was being shot.
The astonished man said he considered […]

Hitler watercolours for Cornish auction

Friday, July 28th, 2006

A series of watercolours believed to have been painted by Adolf Hitler are to be sold by a Cornish auction house.
The 21 watercolours and sketches were discovered in a battered suitcase in a Belgian attic, close to where Hitler served during the First World War.
Jefferys Auctioneers said steps were taken to prove their authenticity without […]

eBay PayPal Users Hit Hardest By Phishing

Friday, July 28th, 2006

eBayyer.co.uk
Three out of every four phishing attacks target users of online auctioneer eBay and its electronic payment system PayPal, a security company said Thursday.
Of the phishing e-mails captured so far in 2006 by U.K.-based Sophos’ network of spam traps — often called “honeypots” — 54.3 percent took aim at PayPal users and 20.9 percent tried […]

Britain prepares for threat of swamp fever - auctions threatned - Irish racecourses may close

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Irish Auction Info
choes of the foot-and-mouth crisis of five years ago were evident yesterday as British racing prepared to mount its defences against swamp fever, a killer disease that has already struck nine horses in Ireland.
Limiting and monitoring equine movement between the countries is likely to be introduced imminently and a complete ban is not […]

UK failing to fight Internet fraudsters

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

A government review has criticised the police for failing to take online fraud seriously, leaving criminals free to target Internet users
UK police are failing to protect and support businesses and individuals who suffer Internet fraud, the government’s top legal advisor has warned.
A report issued earlier this week by the Office of the Attorney General claimed […]