Amazon Takes On eBay’s PayPal With Payments ServiceBarron’s Blogs –47 minutes agoAmazon.com (AMZN) has quietly launched “Checkout by Amazon,” an e-commerce checkout service for online merchants that is taking on eBay’s (EBAY) PayPal … More: continued here

The SIIA wants eBay to squelch short-term software auctions. Since the start of its anti-counterfeiting initiative, eBay seems to be practicing some other curbs on software banditry, to various degrees. If the two sides can’t see eye to eye, will the battle actually land in court? More: continued here

State gets huge, unwieldy check for food stampsThe Olympian, WA –1 hour agoFor reasons that need not be mentioned here, when the US Department of Agriculture likes the way a state handles its Food Stamps Program, it gives officials … More: continued here

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Local Post Office serves 60 routesSW Iowa News, IA –4 hours agoMuch of that is done during the middle of the night at the Omaha Post Office, then trucked over to the Council Bluffs office before 8 am ready to be … More: continued here

eBay is running a 50-percent off sale on its “Featured Plus” listing upgrade from July 29-31, 2008. Certain categories are excluded from the promotion. All other fees apply, see website for details and restrictions. More: continued here

Local Post Office serves 60 routesDaily Nonpareil, IA –4 hours agoMuch of that is done during the middle of the night at the Omaha Post Office, then trucked over to the Council Bluffs office before 8 am ready to be … More: continued here

Staff photo/Josh White – Sales and service associate James Banks waits to assist the next customer at the passport counter Friday morning at the Council Bluffs Post Office. More: continued here

The Mozilla Developer Center announced on Tuesday that Firefox 3.1 Alpha is now available for download. This release is intended for developers and testers only More: continued here

Nearly 4.8 billion passengers took to the air last year, with Atlanta’s Hartsfield International atop the list of the world’s busiest terminals, followed by Chicago’s O’Hare and London’s Heathrow. That figure was 6.8 percent higher than the previous year, according to Airports Council International, an industry association that issued the …