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Icon Sports Media leverages Spitfire Photo technology to deliver new online archive of editorial and historical sports images

One million sports images now available online from searchable database

SAN FRANCISCO AND CHATSWORTH, CA. February 11, 2008 –– Spitfire Photo (www.spitfirephoto.com), providers of cutting-edge technology solutions for online image management and sales, along with Icon Sports Media (Icon SMI), the nation’s premier sports photo agency, have jointly announced the launch of Icon SMI’s new online database of searchable sports images, now available at www.iconsportsmedia.com.  

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