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TNW Quick Hit: There is new data out concerning the potential commercial viability of developing for the Windows Phone 7 application marketplace that is quite interesting: top applications have shot past the$100,000 gross sales mark, and are in certain cases outgrossing their brother applications on Android. Through January, three WP7 apps crossed the six figure barrier. There is however a caveat, two of those three apps were actually developed by Microsoft Games Studios....

In ablog post today, photo sharing serviceFlickrannounces that it has hit 200 million photos that are available for use via the Creative Commons license. By adding aCreative Commons licenseto your photo, you can allow others to share it or re-work it, as long as they give you proper attribution. The Flickr team had this to say: We are proud to announce that – thanks to you – we now have 200 Million (and counting) public Creative Commons licensed photos on Flickr....

It’s not every day that your city will light up with the crackle of lightning and survive the boom of the resulting thunder. And even when your locale is so graced, often the storm is weak, a sliver of what it could have been. But sometimes you get the full serving. Toronto recently did, and acrack photographertook his camera to the streets and captured some rather stunning video. We can’t help but share it....

Major point releases of theLinux kernelare rare occasions. Version 2 was released five years after Linux first arrived on the scene, and the kernel has been in various stages of the 2.x cycle for the fifteen years since. Phoronixreports that project founder Linus Torvalds has committed the version 3.0 release candidate to the official kernel repository. A release candidate is not a final release, but it signals that the code is largely stable and a final round of testing is underway before that final release....

Toshiba’s new Android 3.0 tablet has been spotted on theToshiba site. The tablet sports a 16:10 Widescreen display with HD quality and offers the standard quick-key buttons at the base of the device; home, menu, back and search. The teaser page shows it has adaptive display with an ambient light sensor that optimizes when you’re outdoors. It appears that it will have both a (2.0 MP) front-facing and back-facing (5.0 MP) cameras....