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Business
Skype Founders Are Trying To Block Skype Sale
4:10AM Jason Chen | The two Skype founders are trying to block the sale of Skype from eBay to Mike Volpi and Index Ventures, claiming that the buyers are using unlicensed means of Skype’s source code to bypass having to pay a royalty to the two founders. It’s all very money/corporate/tech talk, but how it relates to you is what we talked about yesterday: the possibility of Skype buying Gizmo5 in order to power VoIP calls. [GigaOm]
Games
Super Rare Sony SNES CD-ROM Controller On eBay Again, Still Looks Uncomfortable
3:08PM Dan Nosowitz | If you’re in the market for an extremely rare piece of gaming history, that crazy joint Sony-Nintendo prototype controller has hit eBay once again. It probably costs a boatload, but its owner would be the top nerd on his block. More »
Music
Elusive “Atomic” Zune HD Seen On eBay For Over $US2000
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Massive shortages, a slick UI and an elusive “atomic” flavour that’s currently tearing up eBay with a $US2025 bid? Sounds like there may be something to this little Microsoft Zune HD thing. Updated. More »
Vehicles
Martin Jetpack: How Much Would You Pay To Be A Test Pilot?
1:20AM Danny Allen | An eBay auction (ending in 10 hours) offers the chance to be amongst the first to go through the Jetpack’s test pilot training program. You’ll need to be over 18, have a driver’s licence, be under 90kg…and have $US35,000 spare. More »
Design
Microwaved OLPC Gets Moulded Into A Scary Sushi Slug
4:00AM Sean Fallon | Kenny Irwin is an artist with a strange medium—microwaved plastic. His latest creation started out as an OLPC, but ended up looking like a slug made out of sushi. Did I mention that you could actually own this thing? More »
Random Stuff
iMac Hamster Cage For Sale On eBay
7:00AM Sean Fallon | An old iMac seems to make a suitable habitat for a hamster. Who knew? And the good news is that you can buy it now on eBay. More »
Games
First Commercially Sold Video Game Ever Is On eBay
3:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Computer Space, generally considered the first commercially-sold video game ever, is pretty rare these days, with only about 1800 of the retro-futuristic arcade cabinets made. Yet two of them just popped up on eBay. More »
Business
eBay Sells Off 65 Per Cent Of Skype For $US1.9 Billion
2:22AM Joanna Stern | eBay acquired Skype back in 2005 for over 3 billion buckaroos, but apparently it wasn’t the best investment. It didn’t seem to know what to do with the internet calling company so it did what it knows best and put it up for auction. It is selling 65 per cent of its stake in the company for 1.9 billion dollars to a small group of VC funds. The deal values Skype at $US2.75 billion. More »
Online
12:30PM Nick Broughall | Rather than trying to get his RRoD’d Xbox 360 fixed, eBay user bellscape_computers has decided to sell it. But not as a broken games console – this thing is the consumate multi-function gadget! More »
RRoD Xbox 360: The Gift Of A Thousand Uses
12:30PM Nick Broughall | Rather than trying to get his RRoD’d Xbox 360 fixed, eBay user bellscape_computers has decided to sell it. But not as a broken games console – this thing is the consumate multi-function gadget! More »
Software
8:20AM John Herrman | Sid Meiers does a thing; Duke Nukem makes an appearance, exactly as you remember him; social conspiracies are aired; eBay!; and a thing called “e-mail”. All this and more in your unusually 90s-centric weekly app dump, after the jump! More »
The Week In iPhone Apps: Sorting Emails, Crushing Empires
8:20AM John Herrman | Sid Meiers does a thing; Duke Nukem makes an appearance, exactly as you remember him; social conspiracies are aired; eBay!; and a thing called “e-mail”. All this and more in your unusually 90s-centric weekly app dump, after the jump! More » 
