del.icio.us links for October 18, 2007

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1. Mid-2008 set for Imax digital launch – HollywoodReporter.com

   Typically, an Imax 2D film print costs about $25,000, and a 3-D movie runs to about $45,000 a print. Imax is betting that eliminating film print cost for studios will sharply increase gross margins for an Imax release of a traditional 35mm movie.

2. Myanmar blames monks for crackdown – TaipeiTimes.Com

   State media also gave a sharply higher figure for the number of people who were detained in connection with the protests, saying 2,927 had been locked up around the country and 468 remained behind bars.

3. The high-speed internet service that took eleven months to arrive – TimesOnline.Co.UK

   “The 3 mile cable had been laid because it was commercially worthwhile, he said. Although Mrs Brackpool’s home, one of fourteen in her hamlet” So £40,000 to connect 14 homes is worthwhile, no wonder BT have problems.

4. Who killed Takashi Saito? – JapanTimes.Co.JP

   Futatsuryu, as the 57-year-old Tokitsukaze was known in his active days, has now been removed from his post at the Nihon Sumo Kyokai. He is now destined to live out his days haunted by Tokitaizan’s premature passing at age 17.

7 more articles after the Jump

1. MySpace, Skype to link social networking and VoIP – TaipeiTimes.Com

   Skype will craft its voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) into My-Space instant messaging software worldwide by December. MySpace has 110 million active monthly users and that 220 million people have Skype accounts

2. Yahoo’s profits slip despite 12% rise in revenue – TaipeiTimes.Com

   The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday it wanted Yahoo executives to testify at a hearing on the California firm’s role in a human-rights case in China that sent a journalist to jail for a decade.

3. BBC’s global website to carry ads – BBC.Co.UK

   The BBC argues that overseas readers, who do not pay the licence fee, should contribute towards the costs. However, critics say commercialisation will undermine the editorial integrity of the BBC and is a slippery slope towards privatisation.

4. BBC shows face blackout in cuts fury – Mirror.Co.UK

   Ross is the BBC’s biggest earner – with an average £6million a year in a three-year deal worth £18million. Norton has around £2.5million a year from a £5million two-year deal and Lucas and Walliams get a million a year each.

5. ITV to confess 10m callers had no hope of win – TimesOnline.Co.UK

   The findings are separate to the scandal at GMTV, where up to 25 million callers were conned out of £35 million over four years. The broadcaster has already closed its ITV Play quiz channel after scandals.

6. Dark day at the BBC as staff learn their fate – Independent.Co.UK

   BBC will announce the axing of 2,600 jobs this morning – one in nine of the total staff – risking industrial action. Most cuts will come in BBC newsrooms, with hundreds of journalists being laid off, and in departments making documentaries.

7. How to Calculate the Distance from Lightning – wikiHow.Com

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