Flickr, a popular online photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo Inc., is teaming up with Getty Images to offer shutterbugs a chance to turn their hobby into a moneymaking endeavor.

Under a partnership announced last week, Getty's editors will peruse Flickr to find pictures that may appeal to newspapers, magazines, book publishers, advertising agencies and other businesses.

Getty will then contact photographers who posted shots with sales potential to see if they're interested in licensing the pictures. Any ensuing sales will be split between Getty and the participating photographers.

It's the first time that Flickr has set up a sales channel since the site started four years ago. More than 2 billion pictures have been posted by the site's 27 million members.

Yahoo bought the service for about $35 million in 2005.

AOL raises fees for some dial-up plans

If you're still paying for AOL, your bill may be going up 20 percent this month.

AOL's cheapest dial-up Internet access plan is going from $9.99 to $11.99 to offset costs of round-the-clock help by telephone. Subscribers can keep the $9.99 rate if they forgo full phone support, but they must actively change their plans to avoid an automatic price increase.

Millions of AOL users have already ditched subscription plans entirely now that the company is giving away free AOL.com e-mail accounts and other features as part of a push to generate more revenue from its free, ad-supported Web sites.

AOL's parent company, Time Warner Inc., is even working on splitting its access and advertising businesses, a move that could lead to the sale of one or both.

As of March 31, AOL had 8.7 million U.S. subscribers for Internet access, fewer than a third of its peak of 26.7 million in 2002.

Gene wiki' to debut on Wikipedia

Researchers plan to create a library of human genetics, with entries on the workings of individual genes, and make it available for anyone in Wikipedia rather than in an obscure academic format.

Authors of the "gene wiki" say they have created 7,500 Wikipedia entries on different genes and are editing another 650 already existing entries.

The group outlined its aims in a paper published on the Public Library of Science's online journal, PLoS Biology.

The eight authors are from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, San Diego State University and Washington University in St. Louis.

— From wire reports