MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos  —  Allan Wood (a baseball megafan who has written a book about Babe Ruth) purchased over $280 worth of digital downloads of baseball games from Major League Baseball, who have just turned off their DRM server, leaving him with no way to watch his videos.

Source:   Boing […]

Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs  —  Let’s put to rest the myth that an Apple computer will set you back more than a Windows PC.  In fact, it’ll cost you less.  —  It’s time to buy an Apple computer.  Indeed, it’s been that time for the past five years, […]

AOL’s New Plan: It’s Not Working  —  Randy Falco is betting the entire AOL franchise on building up its advertising network.  The Time Warner results released this morning show that the horse that the head of AOL is betting on is slowing down.  —  AOL sold $540 million in ads in the third quarter …

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Digg close to a $300 million sale?  —  Is Digg worth 100Million?  I doubt it.  Why you dont you buy a less trafficed aggregator and use existing resources to make it as trafficed as Digg?  —  Here’s a list:  —  Breitbart.com  —  buzztracker.com  —  Congoo.com  —  Daylife.com  —  Newser.com

Source:   Valleywag Comments
Author:   Petersmithers
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Digg close to a $300 million sale?  [Rumormonger]  —  Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company, I hear.  When I floated this rumor that Digg was up for sale, my friends scoffed: “When isn’t Digg up for […]

If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has Stolen Your $$$ And Claims “No Refunds”  —  Just bumping this to the top for awhile.  —  Great to see non-baseball sites like Boing Boing, Wired, Slashdot, Techdirt and others posting about this.

Source:   The Joy of Sox
Author:   Redsock
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AMAZON TO HOST RED HAT LINUX ONLINE  —  Update: I added a lot more detail about Red Hat’s ambitions and other moves.  —  Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com’s Elastic Computing Cloud online service.

Source:   Webware.com
Author:   Stephen […]

Online Fossett Searchers Ask, Was It Worth It?  —  Amazon’s Mechanical Turk presented 50,000 volunteers with aerial photos and satellite images like these, asking them to flag anything that looked like a plane-crash site.  (Click image to enlarge.)  —  Screenshot: Courtesy of Amazon.com

Source:   Wired News
Author:   Steve Friess
Link:   http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/11…

Log Off and Get to Work  —  Turns out your bosses don’t want you updating your social networking page at the office.  —  Web security firm Barracuda Networks polled 2,400 of its own customers and found that 50.2 percent block access to social networks MySpace and Facebook.

Source:   Bits
Author:   Brad Stone
Link:   http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/log-off-and…

Eisner’s advice to striking writers: Blame Steve Jobs, not the studios  —  NEW YORK—In his keynote speech on Wednesday morning at the Media and Money conference hosted by Dow Jones and Nielsen, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner talked about writers as though they were a minority group that he didn’t particularly understand well.

Source:   CNET […]