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4:40 PM ET, May 14, 2009

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The Official Google Blog:
This is your pilot speaking.  Now, about that holding pattern...  Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia.  And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities  —  Updating: 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.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:   Google Outage Caused by Asian “Traffic Jam”
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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Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:   1B Apps Served, One Disappointing Revenue Total for Apple
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Exclusive: Steve Jobs' Amazon.com Account Hacked, Hacker Claims  —  CC-licensed picture by Ben Stanfield.  —  A hacker claims to have broken into Steve Jobs' private Amazon.com account.  —  The hacker is trying to sell details of Jobs' Amazon.com account to journalists …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June  —  The dream of owning a keyboard embedded with a full-blown PC running XP on an Atom N270 processor and 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display/trackpad is nearly upon us.  A dream, quite honestly, nobody had prior to seeing the reveal …
Eiji Hirai / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Product Search for Android now with Barcode Scanning  —  Since we launched Google Product Search for mobile a few weeks ago, I've been using it to check prices, reviews and product details on my Android phone.  In addition to typing in my product searches, I've also had some fun speaking them.
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 …
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 …
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.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Clearwire: We Don't Need No Stinkin' LTE
Discussion: Seeking Alpha and DSLreports
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Who Has the Most Web Servers?  —  There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week's first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers.  Rackspace reports that as of March 30 …
Discussion: GigaOM, Thanks:atul
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 …
Discussion: Softpedia News and The Blog Pirate
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
College Journalists Want To Erase Their Past From Google  —  While many professional journalists fondly remember the work they did in college — covering townie news for the university paper or radio station — some are trying to erase their past work from the Internet because it shows …
Discussion: /socnets
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.
Discussion: OhGizmo!, SlashGear and The iPhone Blog
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google News spotlights YouTube, suffers outage  —  Click here for the latest on those widespread Google outages.  In addition, this story was corrected at 11:30 a.m. PDT to reflect that YouTube videos already had been available, but now are spotlighted as a part of a broader Google News facelift.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
ASUS bringing 1008HA, UX50 and U80V laptops Stateside, we go hands-on  —  We've got the skinny on ASUS's latest North American foray, with the Eee PC 1008HA Seashell, UX50 and U80V “thin and light” all vying for your slice of the stimulus this summer.  The quite familiar (by now) …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
April Video Winners: Hulu, of Course.  And... MTV?  —  Here's an online video story you haven't seen before: Viacom's MTV sites had a really good month last month.  —  This news comes from Nielsen Online, which just released its video traffic numbers for April.  The top line is more or less unchanged.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Contentinople
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,” …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Don't Drink The 151.im — The Latest Facebook Phishing Scam  —  Facebook phishing attacks seem to be a dime a dozen these days.  The latest is oddly simple but people are still falling victim to it.  The subject line will be “Hello” and the body of the Facebook email will simply be a the domain 151.im.
Discussion: Post I.T., Mashable! and Etan on Tech, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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.
Discussion: TechFlash and All Points Blog
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued over ties to Shazam music ID service  —  Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices.
Discussion: The iPhone Blog and Electronista
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.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and TheNextWeb.com
Peter Wayner / Bits:
A Book Author Wonders How to Fight Piracy  —  The specter of piracy of my books materialized for me several weeks ago when I typed the four words “wayner data compression textbook” into Google.  Five of the top ten links pointed to sites distributing pirated copies.  (And now, it's six.)
Discussion: TeleRead
Google Code Blog:
Google OpenID API - taking the next steps  —  Six months ago, we announced our first step in supporting single sign-on using OpenID.  Well, we wanted to share with you what we have been working on since.  As a strong supporter of open standards such as OpenID, Google's top priority in this area …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Makes A Twitter Clone...In Portuguese  —  We've heard that Yahoo may be unveiling a Twitter clone called Yahoo Meme.  According to our tipster David Ruiz's blog (it's in Portuguese, here's the translated version), Yahoo is inviting users to test out the alpha version of a competitor to Twitter.
Thanks:atul
JG Mason / Gadgetell:
Sprint says Pre is worth $542.01; hidden in contest rules  —  Who doesn't want to win a Palm Pre?  Sprint's throwing in a year of everything service and a Touchstone to drum up some buzz but what they didn't count on is sneaky bloggers ripping through legal documents that must lay …
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.
Discussion: Software, Interrupted
David Liu / Team Fusion:
A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple's Mac OS X Update 10.5.7  —  Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, and I know many of you are eager to try it out.  However, if your Mac has an ATI graphics card (MacPro or iMac) …
Discussion: The Mac Observer and Macsimum News
 
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Andrew S. Ross / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. going after online bookers for hotel tax
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
MacSpeech Dictate gets 20% more accurate with paid upgrade
Discussion: Macworld, TidBITS and Macsimum News
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Adobe plagued by 16-month-old XSS bug
Discussion: Softpedia News and threatpost
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Last MySpace Payment: $75 Million On June 20, 2010
Yokum / Startup Company Lawyer:
Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock
Jacqueline Emigh / BetaNews:
Dell changes its Windows vs. Linux netbook strategy, plans new subsidized model
Discussion: Liliputing, OStatic blogs and eWeek
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Microsoft begins working on SP3 for Vista
Discussion: Softpedia News
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Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
AT&T announces the Samsung Jack, available on May 19th
Nic Fildes / Telegraph:
Vodafone drops ‘roaming’ charges for overseas calls
Discussion: Fast Company, Gizmodo and DailyTech
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Toolbelt Tells Which Of Your Pages Were Recently Indexed or Linked
Lewis Page / The Register:
DARPA working on inertial-nav ‘Smart Boot’ tech
Discussion: CrunchGear and All Points Blog
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Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector
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