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  • Flickr/Getty Deal: Analysis

    Flickr/Getty Deal: AnalysisThe 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.

    Getty have caused a considerable amount of heart ache to professional photographers by re-adjusting their rates and contracts for images in their commercial library.

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  • Euro Tech News: Steve Kennedy Deserves Your Vote!

    Euro Tech News: Steve Kennedy Deserves Your Vote!We’re really pleased to see that Steve Kennedey’s, Euro Tech News blog has been short-listed for the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08, which have recently been announced.

    Computer Weekly describe the selected sites as “this year’s must-read blogs for IT professionals in the UK,” which is a great accolade for Steve – quite rightly too.

    Steve Kennedy really knows his onions — why else would we ask him to write for Digital-Lifestyles? — and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the comms and tech world.

    His experience is extensive and oh so very deep. As the old phrase goes, he’s forgotten more about comms than most people will ever know.

    Massive knowledge aside and on the personal side, he’s also a really nice bloke.

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  • Yahoo Looks For Time Warner Merger. Again.

    Yahoo Looks For Time Warner Merger. Again.Instead of going out to the local bar and celebrating with a vat of Budweiser, Yahoo execs spent the US national bank holiday weekend chewing the fat with their lead adviser, Goldman Sachs. Also pulling up a chair at the table were potential bid partners including Time Warner.

    The fading search engine giant was getting jiggy with Time Warner in the hope of bagging a merger deal with its Internet arm, AOL, that could be worth as much as $10 billion (£5 billion) according to a report in The Times.

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  • US: Broadband Uptake Slows, 25% Without Home Internet Access

    Broadband Uptake Slows, 25% Without Home Internet AccessBroadband adoption in the US is slackening off with many dial-up customers saying they haven’t the slightest interest in upgrading to high speed broadband connections.

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  • Wired Magazine: UK Version Coming Up (again)!

    Wired Magazine: UK Version Coming Up!Publishers Condé Nast have announced that they will be launching a UK version of their popular Wired magazine next year, with an accompanying Brit-based website coming right up too.

    Ex-Guardian Unlimited editor and current Jewish Chronicle editor, David Rowan, has bagged the job of editing the publication, with the debut issue of the monthly technology magazine expected to start jumping into newsagents in the first half of 2009.

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  • Lloyds TSB Visa Debit Cards For Kids Used to Buy Pr0n, Fags, Booze etc

    Lloyds TSB Visa Debit Cards For Kids Used to Buy Pr0n, Fags, Booze etcThe UK bank, Lloyds TSB, have kicked up a fuss with their decision to give children as young as eleven years old VISA debit cards – without telling their parents.

    While the company is happily dishing out Visa debit cards to kids, furious parents are concerned that their little loved ones will use the cards to go shopping in the murky, dark areas of the Internet.

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  • Bill Gates: A Mini Retrospective

    Bill Gates: A Mini RetrospectiveToday Bill Gates is stepping away from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, having built the company from zero in 1975 to the giant it is today.

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  • 35 Million Computers In The Trashcan

    35 Million Computers In The TrashcanIf proof were needed of the criminal waste created by the computer industry, new figures from research firm Gartner estimate that some 35 million PCs will be dumped into landfill this year, “with little or no regard” for their toxic content.

    Gartner’s analyst Meike Escherich said he expected some 180 million computers to be replaced this year, with some being flogged off to second owners via auction sites and other channels, or simply given away.

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  • Android Handsets Hit Delay

    Android Handsets Hit DelayGoogle’s plans to revolutionise the mobile industry with their open source mobile Android software appears to be proving a tougher challenge than expected, with the company now saying that the handsets won’t arrive until the fourth quarter – or early next year. (more…)

  • YouTube Screening Room: ‘Serious’ Content For YouTube

    YouTube Screening Room: 'Serious' Content For YouTubeYouTube Screening Room has officially been released following a couple of rumours knocking around about it.

    YouTube’s stated intention is that they want to give the opportunity to the “tens of thousands of films” that are produced every year to be seen by a wider audience.

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