Source: Techdirt From the “so-they-say” department… While Time Warner keeps denying it, for the past few years, it’s been pretty clear that they’d be thrilled to get rid of AOL. If you hadn’t been following, it’s still been many years since the merger and they refuse to actually merge AOL into their Time Warner broadband…

Source: The Register (IT news) A convicted eBay fraudster has been ordered to cough up £70,000 (about $123,000 US dollars) or face an extra two years behinds bars. Simon Hurley sold counterfeit merchandise via the popular auction website. Investigators reckon that between March and December 2003 he flogged some 6,000 items pocketting almost £105,000 (about…

Source: The Chicago Tribune The new GameSwapZone.com has followed eBay‘s playbook in building a site to buy and sell video games and hint books. Buyers and Sellers are rated; Buyers can end auctions early with the Buy it Now feature; automatic bidding (up to the bidder’s preset limit) is available; and Sellers can set up…