Word: ebay
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...develop ways of accessing a phone's internal memory. Two of the leading cell phone forensics experts are British - West Yorkshire Detective Constables Steve Hirst and Steve Miller. Like their American colleagues - "tinkerers" as Mislan calls them - the two spend their evenings buying up old cell phones on eBay, deconstructing and decoding them, and then sharing their research online with colleagues around the world...
...other items with leak potential. But the combination of stylish looks and too-thin wallets may drive real change. Thousands of shoppers camped out in Dublin in July to get a Hindmarch bag. And many of this season's trendy $15 eco-tote bags have been selling on eBay for more than $400. Which means that this year's environmental slogan could be reduce, reuse, resell...
Whole Foods stores in New York City recently marketed 20,000 canvas bags created by British designer Anya Hindmarch, and though the store sold the bags for a mere $15, interested buyers can now find them on eBay for over ten times as much...
...carrying it, fashion magazines jumped on the trend, it was part of the Oscar swag, and before the bags hit the country's Sainsbury grocery shops, supposed to be its primary retailer, a fanatic fashion following had taken root. The bags sold out immediately, with many turning up on eBay for hundreds of dollars. When 20,000 were released at 450 supermarkets across England, women got in line at 2 a.m. and had snapped up all of them...
...even as eBay joins the list of Google's agitators, the search giant continues to soar, having recently overtaken Cisco Systems, albeit briefly, as Silicon Valley's most valuable company, with a market cap approaching $160 billion. And its battles don't seem to affect Google's broader reputation: In a recent survey by research firm Universum, 5,500 MBA graduates ranked Google the most attractive of all companies to work for this year...