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Flickr/Getty Deal: Analysis

The deal between Getty and Flickr, which exclusively gives Getty the right to pick the best images from Flickr and sell them via gettyimages.com to their customers in the creative, commercial and editorial industries — they call it the ‘first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community’ — is, in many ways, inevitable.
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Email Dis-ease Increasing

The mania for email in and around UK Plc is multiplying, causing an every increasing expectation of the high speed response to email enquiries.

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Motorola S9 Review: Stereo Bluetooth Headset

We’ve been using the S9 stereo bluetooth headset from Motorola for quite a long time now.
The concept behind them is intriguing - being able to enjoy music without having to deal with the wires that normally get caught up between headphones and the music player - but they’re more than that. You can step backwards […]

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Google BigTable Database Service Launch Rumoured

There’s a rumour that Google will be launching access to their distributed database service, BigTable, making the same type of database hardware and software that keeps Google running, available to anyone who pays for it.

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Radiohead: “Italy Most Generous: 75% Paid For In Rainbows Download”

Further details of how Radiohead’s ‘give us what you want’ album, In Rainbows, sold have emerged in an interview with the BBC, beyond the somewhat sketchy details what we knew already.

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Brake Lights Gain Intelligence

The invention of the brake light on the car was arguably the most important addition to the safety of driving, probably trailed by the availability of ABS.
Somehow, perhaps because brake lights are so important, there’s been no significant advance in their development, beyond changing the bulbs to a brighter version.

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Mobile Internet: Ad Revenues And Mobile Web Growth

Revenues set to rise but text still rules the data waves

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UK IT Usage Rivals Airlines In Carbon Emissions

There’s been many stories in the newspapers about how bad the aviation sector is at producing emissions harmful to the environment.
A survey carried about by Global Action Plan, an environmental charity, has indicated that the IT sector in the UK has a similar carbon footprint to the aviation industry. As the usage of computing rapidly […]

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Is The TV Content Industry Finally Starting To Wake Up?

MTV Networks Chairman and Chief Executive Judy McGrath said of Web distributed content and TV content, at the Reuters Media Summit, “One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick.” Wow what a change around that is in the TV world.

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Broadband Soars As Dial Up Dies

Rapid rise of broadband connections spells doom for dial up.

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