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Apple and China’s largest mobile provider … [Apple]January 16th, 2008 at 7:04 pmSource:Valleywag
via videosift.com Before Steve Jobs, Devo was a precursor of geek chic. If you’re 45 or older you probably remember this brain-breaking TV moment, a hot topic after last night’s Macworld show at the Warfield. If not, it’s still a good clip. For context, 1978’s pop music was dominated by the Bee Gees and Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life.” Rock musicians — Journey, Styx, Fleetwood Mac — played big area anthems, had long, feathered hair and wore Spandex. A bunch of robotic shorthairs in radiation suits and dorky eyeglasses singing maybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybe better come back later next week — produced by Brian Eno, who went on to do the Windows 95 startup sound — was a finger down the throat of the Rolling Stones’ contemporary disco hit “Miss You.” As they later sang, Devo were the band for those of us through being cool.
Apple and China’s largest mobile provider China Mobile have called off discussions for now. No. 2 carrier China Unicom, with one-third the customers of China Mobile, will be next in line for Apple talks. As a smaller company, the thinking goes, China Unicom will have more to gain from the iPhone and thus be more willing to bend to Apple’s financial and technical requirements. China Mobile recently agreed to become the Chinese distributor for RIM’s BlackBerry. [The Motley Fool]
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The Library of Congress has teamed with Flickr to make its vast catalog of images available on the Web, starting with 3,000 photographs with no known copyright holders. The goal of the project is to provide exposure to these rarely seen images and to harness the Flickr community to compile missing data — like the photographer, subject, and copyright holder — for free. As far as partnerships go, Flickr seems to be the winner. They gain access to thousands of beautiful and historic photographs. Having the Library of Congress on board may even encourage other public institutions to follow suit and join their tagging project, “
