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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Reports point to widespread Google outages — Many people found Google's search site was extremely slow or inaccessible Thursday, and other reports pointed to troubles with other properties including YouTube, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Docs, AdSense, and Blogger.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities — Updated: We're getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind. The service appears to be back as of noon-ish EDT in New York City, but packets are still being lost around the globe.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
It's Down! The Day Google Stood Still (Updated) — We have seen our fair share of failures from web based products, but this morning, for a large number of users (at least in the U.S.), it looks like every Google service has been either wiped off the Internet or is running extremely slow for a large number of users.
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Data Center Knowledge, Search Engine Land, Mashable!, Search Engine Roundtable and TheNextWeb.com
Jeremy Liew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Apple has made no more than $20-45m in revenue from the app store — About a month ago Apple announced that one billion iphone apps have been downloaded in the first nine months. That's an amazing number. I wondered how much money Apple was making from the app store.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Apple 2.0, Mashable!, paidContent.org, Techgeist, The Toybox, The Equity Kicker, p2pnet, VatorNews and mocoNews
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Gmail Blog:
Import your mail and contacts from other accounts — Gmail users can be a passionate bunch. Many of us have, at one time or another, encouraged or cajoled friends and family to join us @gmail.com. But switching email accounts can be pretty painful. It's like getting out of a relationship.
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Between the Lines, LiveSide, CNET News, PC World, Lifehacker, Digital Inspiration, PreCentral.net, Search Engine Journal, The Register, CloudAve, Download Squad, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Google Apps Blog, Mashable!, AppScout, geeksugar, InformationWeek, Google Operating System, Search Engine Land and Web Analytics World, Thanks:sinkercat
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Stuck On Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Or AOL? Gmail Just Made It Incredibly Easy To Switch — Since launching back in 2004, Gmail has set the gold standard for webmail clients, offering a large amount of storage and a highly usable interface, free of charge. But for many people it has remained out of reach …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours — Twitter just went through an awful 24-hour stretch. It included taking away a feature some people loved, probably being misleading about it, getting a huge amount of backlash, halfway bringing the feature back, and getting railed by the press for it all …
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Telegraph, Tech Central, MYBLOG by Ouriel, ChannelWeb, TechCrunch Europe, ITworld.com, internetnews.com, Gawker and bub.blicio.us, Thanks:brickandclick
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows Mobile 6.5: the UI was rushed, more on widgets — A TechEd 2009 video gives more information on widgets, talks about how the UI in Windows Mobile 6.5 was rushed, and that Silverlight won't be coming till a later version. — TechEd 2009 already gave us details on Windows 7 …
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Download Squad, Gizmodo, All about Microsoft, MobileCrunch, ithinkdifferrent, SlashGear, TechVi and Engadget
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Network Use Not the Only Reason For AT&T to Hate 3G iPhone SlingPlayer — Everyone may think that AT&T threw their fat around and made Apple lock down the SlingPlayer iPhone app because of AT&T's lousy network, but a tipster tells us there's a more nefarious reason at play.
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Troy Wolverton / SiliconBeat:AT&T: “Slinging” barred on all devices, not just iPhone
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The Toybox, HotHardware.com News, MobileContentToday, Electricpig.co.uk, Macworld and NEWSFACTOR
Brad Stone / Bits:
RealNetworks Sues Studios on Antitrust Grounds — Escalating its already simmering court battle with Hollywood, RealNetworks has expanded its lawsuit against the six major Hollywood movie studios and the DVD Copy Control Association, a cross-industry consortium, in federal court in northern California.
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BetaNews, Ars Technica, TechFlash, p2pnet, GMSV, Between the Lines, Electronista, Engadget, GigaLaw.com Daily News and AppScout
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
YouTube arrives on Google News after outage — Update at 7:27 a.m. PDT: Outage is confirmed, and further details have been added. — Google News was inaccessible for many on Thursday morning. But when it re-emerged, it sported news videos hosted at YouTube. — Some news headlines now feature a small YouTube logo.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Kindle Publishing Now Open To All Blogs — One of the neat little sub-features of Amazon's Kindle is being able to subscribe to blogs on it. You have to pay for the privilege, but for heavy Kindle users, it makes sense as you can get the content delivered to you wirelessly for your favorite blogs.
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paidContent.org, Fast Company, Gadget Lab, Electricpig.co.uk, Digits, MobileContentToday, WebWorkerDaily, Mashable!, TechFlash, Silicon Alley Insider and Gizmodo
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Why isn't Zillow dead? — “Things are very good at Zillow,” Rich Barton, CEO of the online real estate company, was telling me. We're in the thick of the worst economic crisis of a generation and a depressed real estate market, so this means that Barton is either a very clever CEO or an audacious liar.
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Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
AT&T announces the Samsung Jack, available on May 19th — Just announced by AT&T and Samsung, the Jack will be available on May 19th for $99 with a new contract and after rebate. If the device looks familiar it's no coincidence. The Jack is basically the BlackJack III.
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Alan Duke / CNN:
Official: Craigslist to replace ‘blatant Internet brothel’ — (CNN) — Craigslist will replace its controversial online “erotic services” listings with a section where ads are individually checked by Craigslist employees before they are posted, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
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BBC:
Pirated pop keeps stars popular — File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study. — The research, by industry body PRS for Music, showed the most pirated pop songs tend to be those at the top of the music charts. — There was little evidence …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook — NEW YORK Staffers at The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday were given a newly compiled list of rules for “professional conduct,” which included a lengthy guide for use of online outlets, noting cautions for activities on social networking sites.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, mathewingram.com/work, Gawker, MarketingVOX, Transforming the Gaz, A VC and paidContent.org
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
The 10 Sites Benefiting The Most From Twitter's Traffic Explosion — US unique visitors to Twitter grew 83% between March and April, according to ComScore. Since one of the main uses of Twitter is sharing links, we wondered: Who is feeling the Twitter love? We asked Hitwise.
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Toshiba:
World's First PC Integrating 512GB SSD — Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), reinforcing its “dynabook SS RX2 series” of notebook PCs offering light weight, slim lines, and long-lasting battery operation, today announced the introduction of the top-of-the-range “dynabook SS RX2/WAJ,” …
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Gizmodo, Between the Lines, Maximum PC all, Engadget, Newlaunches.com, Softpedia News, T3.com News and Electricpig.co.uk
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
What's Holding Back Google Apps? — The search giant aims to compete in business software with Google Apps. But some clients fret over storing data on its servers—and its rivals are big — When Google (GOOG) announced a foray into business software two years ago, it touted General Electric (GE) as one of its trophy accounts.
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Software, Interrupted
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
4G wireless makes progress with WiMax, LTE developments — Suddenly, there's a light at the end of the 4G tunnel. We keep hearing about the next generation of wireless communications but thanks to two developments this week, it's finally starting to feel like we're getting close.
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:
These The First Pics Of The PS3 Slim? — While rumors have been swirling that Sony will be announcing a PS3 Slim, the company has stated earlier that it “currently has no plans” for a redesign. That was then, this is now. — Today, pictures of what appears to be a redesigned PS3 have appeared on Chinese message boards.
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Destructoid, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Crave, Joystiq, ComputerAndVideoGames.com, Electricpig.co.uk and techeblog.com
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Toolbelt Tells Which Of Your Pages Were Recently Indexed or Linked — Google's new “show options” feature*, rolled out for everyone this week, lets you restrict results to just pages from the past 24 hours. You can use this feature in combination with Google's “site” and “link” operators, too.
Schneier on Security:
Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector — This is an excellent lesson in the security problems inherent in trusting proprietary software: … Draeger, the manufacturer maintained that the system was perfect, and that revealing the source code would be damaging to its business.
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