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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo
Photos, an online photo storage site, and asking users to move
instead to its Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo
official said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Bowie and eBay starred on
Tuesday alongside photo-sharing Web site Flickr and a blog of
cute animals as winners of the Webby Awards, the leading
international honour for Web content.

Apple TV might be new and hyped but it’s entering a marketplace with other players and NetGear has no intention of letting the trendy one have it all its own way.

Meet the Digital Entertainer HD (EVA8000), a multi-platform device for streaming digital music, movies other content over wireless home networks. It sports a HDMI interface for streaming HD content and will work with Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems. It will also work with network storage devices and USB sticks/drives. Content can be streamed from online sites like YouTube and Flickr, while movies can be downloaded straight from BitTorrent’s legal site. NetGear says:

“Digital Entertainer HD automatically discovers HD movies, TV shows, music files, and personal photos on a home network, across multiple computers, and organizes these into a single media library displayed on a TV without the need for media server software running on the computer.”

This is a real do-it-all device, the size of a slim DVD player, and supports more formats that you can shake a stick at – whatever that really means. It’s certainly one I’ll be checking out when it ships over here this summer. The US price is £220.-Martin Lynch

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The popular photo-sharing website Flickr announces plans to launch a Chinese language service.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Yahoo said on Friday it plans to
launch a Chinese language version of its popular photo-sharing
site Flickr.com this year to tap demand from Chinese digital
photo enthusiasts.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. said on Friday it plans to
launch a Chinese language version of its popular photo-sharing
site Flickr.com, to tap demand from Chinese digital photo
enthusiasts. “The HK traditional Chinese interface of Flickr
will be available later this year,” a Hong Kong-based
spokeswoman said in an email to Reuters.

The photo sharing site Flickr requires customers to log in with Yahoo IDs, upsetting many early users.

A 30-pound Plexiglas display case containing 42 iPod nanos walked out of an Apple Store in Boulder, Colorado, courtesy of either very sneaky shoplifters, snoozing store clerks, or some devious combination of the two. You’d think someone walking out of an Apple Store carrying a big glass box filled with $8705 worth of nanos would be rather conspicuous, but apparently in Boulder people do it all the time, since no one noticed anything suspicious and police have no suspects. So if you see a set of 42 nanos in a “handsome display case” up for sale on eBay this weekend, bid with caution. – Matt Buchanan

P.S. Cobbling together the information given to us and utilizing our crack Law and Order skills, we came up with a rendering of the suspect, which you can see on the right, so be on the lookout.

42 iPods stolen from Apple Store [Daily Camera]
image via Flickr

A 30-pound Plexiglas display case containing 42 iPod nanos walked out of an Apple Store in Boulder, Colorado, courtesy of either very sneaky shoplifters, snoozing store clerks, or some devious combination of the two. You’d think someone walking out of an Apple Store carrying a big glass box filled with $8705 worth of nanos would be rather conspicuous, but apparently in Boulder people do it all the time, since no one noticed anything suspicious and police have no suspects. So if you see a set of 42 nanos in a “handsome display case” up for sale on eBay this weekend, bid with caution. – Matt Buchanan

P.S. Cobbling together the information given to us and utilizing our crack Law and Order skills, we came up with a rendering of the suspect, which you can see on the right, so be on the lookout.

42 iPods stolen from Apple Store [Daily Camera]
image via Flickr

A 30-pound Plexiglas display case containing 42 iPod nanos walked out of an Apple Store in Boulder, Colorado, courtesy of either very sneaky shoplifters, snoozing store clerks, or some devious combination of the two. You’d think someone walking out of an Apple Store carrying a big glass box filled with $8705 worth of nanos would be rather conspicuous, but apparently in Boulder people do it all the time, since no one noticed anything suspicious and police have no suspects. So if you see a set of 42 nanos in a “handsome display case” up for sale on eBay this weekend, bid with caution. – Matt Buchanan

P.S. Cobbling together the information given to us and utilizing our crack Law and Order skills, we came up with a rendering of the suspect, which you can see on the right, so be on the lookout.

42 iPods stolen from Apple Store [Daily Camera]
image via Flickr