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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Systemwide GMail Outage — Update: As of 3:45 PM PST it looks like Gmail is back up, at least for some users. — Update 2: Google's comment on the outage: … Gmail is having a systemwide outage affecting multiple countries, and a whole bunch of its 100 million users are screaming about it on Twitter.
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Gmail Blog:
We feel your pain, and we're sorry — Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we're really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly. Everything should be back to normal by the time you read this.
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Technologizer, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Homotron.net, HighTouch and internetnews.com
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Gmail is down, Twitter sizzling with the news
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Gmail's Out...Again — It's almost becoming routine …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Citi: Yep, The Kindle's A Huge Hit. $1 Billion For Amazon In 2010 (AMZN) — Initial skepticism about Amazon's Kindle is being replaced by euphoria: Citi's Mark Mahaney, who was already bullish on the e-book reader, declares that is indeed going to be Amazon's iPod.
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Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, SitePoint Blogs, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, GMSV, eWeek, WebProNews and Industry Standard
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Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Georgia accuses Russia of coordinated cyberattack — The Georgian embassy in the U.K. has accused forces within Russia of launching a coordinated cyberattack against Georgian Web sites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Jon Swaine / Telegraph:Georgia: Russia ‘conducting cyber war’
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Danger Room, Zero Day, Associated Press, Mashable!, WebProNews, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Valleywag, Dancho Danchev's Blog and Computerworld
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DEMO v. TechCrunch50 Takes A Nasty Turn With Charges Of Plagiarism — We are heads down preparing for the upcoming TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco, where we'll feature fifty newly launched startups and products to an audience of over 1,500 investors, press, entrepreneurs and others who are passionate about startups.
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mathewingram.com/work, Geek Gestalt, SarahLacy.com, Clickety Clack, Valleywag and The Drama 2.0 Show
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Users Complain About Redesign, Prove That Redesign Is A Huge Success — Facebook users — young, tech-savvy and given to gnat-like attention spans — are supposed to relish change. But they love to carp about it. — Two years ago they complained about news feeds; last year they complained about Beacon.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:Users Fight Back Against the New Facebook
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Scott Moritz / Fortune:
Analyst: 3 million iPhones sold in first month — Momentum isn't showing any signs of a dip; sales blow past expectations. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — Talk about your summer scorchers. — One month after its debut, Apple's new iPhone has hit the 3 million sold mark, according to analyst Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative.
David Robinson / Freedom to Tinker:
Is the New York Times a Confused Company? — Over lunch I did something old-fashioned—I picked up and read a print copy of the New York Times. I was startled to find, on the front of the business section, a large, colorfully decorated feature headlined “Is Google a Media Company?”
Verizon:
Visual Voice Mail From Verizon Wireless Gives Customers A New Way To Manage Their Messages — Customer Inquiries — For customer inquiries, please call 800-922-0204 or go to — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — The company with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network today …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Verizon shows you Visual Voice Mail — if you show them the money
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One More Thing:
Apple, AT&T mum on iPhone 3G issues — Note: CNET News' Tom Krazit and Marguerite Reardon co-wrote this article. — After his third iPhone 3G continued to cut him off in the middle of his conversations, Ryan Shaw had seen enough. — “The phone was a disappointment from the standpoint …
Michelle Quinn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Trying to watch the Olympics on TV and the Web — How is your Olympics-watching experience going? — You may have caught some of the Olympic Games over the weekend, most likely in front of your television set and not online. NBC Universal, which owns the U.S. broadcast rights …
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Two weeks after Apple calls MobileMe stable, mail goes down — “MobileMe members may be unable to access MobileMe Mail. Service will be restored ASAP. We apologize for any inconvenience.” — If by “may” Apple means “definitely,” and by “ASAP” it means “nearly three hours and counting,” then I think we're all on the same page.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Alexander's non-QWERTY counterpart, Atila — Another leaked Motorola handset? You bet! This time we've got the brother-in-law to the Motorola Alexander — no QWERTY keyboard — with a pretty decent spec sheet. This one is codenamed Atila, and if you haven't caught …
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Unwired View, WMExperts, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, wmpoweruser.com, Electronista, Gizmodo and Engadget Mobile
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Memoranda — Apple and Microsoft, as ever, offer a study in contrasts. Take, for example, two recent company-wide memos from CEOs Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer. Jobs's, leaked last week, regarded the botched launch of MobileMe. Ballmer's, from two weeks ago, outlined Microsoft's strategic goals for the next year.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
AMD to Nvidia: Two chips are better than one — Advanced Micro Devices announced on Monday its most powerful graphics technology to date, going after Nvidia in the rarified—and closely watched—enthusiast game segment. — The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics board houses two 4870 graphics processing units …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YuMe Replaces CEO — YuMe, the video advertising network that was recently involved in controversy with comScore over just how big it is, has brought in a new CEO, according to an email from a company spokesperson. Michael Mathieu, who previously ran the Internet business for Freedom Communication …
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting — Well this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest's steel twigs.
