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Apartments On Offer At eBay?

eBay Inc., the auction site that lists objects from fountain pens to deeds for lunar properties, is getting into a new real estate market that’s (hopefully) a little less exotic. It’s buying Rent.com, an online apartment-rental service, for $415 million in stock and cash.

A spokesman for eBay says the apartment-rental market is big but it’s also fragmented. It’s difficult for would-be renters to hook up with all potential landlords. EBay execs believe the market can be made more efficient through services like that of privately held Rent.com.

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Source: Information Week

Motley Crue back together!

Just finished watching Motley Crue’s new video and right before they announced live from L.A. that:

MOTLEY CRUE REUNITES WITH ALL ORIGINAL MEMBERS AFTER MORE THAN SIX YEARS TO ANNOUNCE “RED, WHITE & CRÜE TOUR 2005… BETTER LIVE THAN DEAD,” PRESENTED BY VH1 AND VH1 CLASSIC.

Shows in L.A. will be February 2005 sometime.

I am so there! \m/

Firefox Is Coming To Retail Stores

Linux operating-system producer Linspire Inc. has found another way to challenge Microsoft: it’s offering its OpenOffice.org product suite and the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser in a single package in retail channels.

Linspire, formerly called Lindows, positions its OOoFf package to directly compete with Microsoft Office. The OpenOffice.org product enables users to create spreadsheets, presentations, and documents using files in popular formats, including .doc, .xls and .ppt. The Linspire product also enables users to utilize the PDF format.

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Source: Tech Web

Window Internet Exploder users

Stop using IE a.k.a. Internet Exploder, a.k.a. Piece of total crap.

Go download Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

The Firefox Preview Release empowers you to browse faster, more safely, and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 7 million others and make the switch today—Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.

It’s free, much more secure than IE will ever be, it has a lot of nifty extensions and it’s endorsed by me :)