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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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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: … Update 3: Google issues a straightforward apology. — Gmail is having a systemwide outage affecting multiple countries …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Gmail is down, Twitter sizzling with the news
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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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Michelle Thatcher / Crave:
Lenovo set to announce ThinkPad W700 — Set to debut on Tuesday at the Siggraph conference in Los Angeles, Lenovo's new ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation is full of firsts. The 17-inch laptop is the first time ThinkPad has ventured into desktop replacement territory, and its larger …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Lenovo intros the monstrous ThinkPad W700, and we get our hands all over it (updated with Wacom video demo) — Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the really annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo's newest outrage — the ThinkPad W700.
HP:
HP Brings DreamColor Accuracy to Mobile Power Users — Today at SIGGRAPH 2008, HP expanded its DreamColor technology portfolio with the introduction of a powerful mobile workstation - the HP EliteBook 8730w Mobile Workstation with DreamColor Display - that offers professionals exceptional color accuracy.
Brent Csutoras:
TWITTER LIMITS FOLLOWING TO 2,000 — Twitter has always been looking for better ways to combat spammers and it appears they have recently added a new measure to combat one aspect of gaming. — User can now only add up to 2,000 followers before being limited and receiving this error message.
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David Risley:
Twitter Limits to 2000 Followers. Could They Charge To Lift The Limit? — In my last post, I stated in passing that Twitter had limited accounts to following 2,000 people unless you already had more than 2,000 people you follow. Apparently, I broke this news to some - unwittingly.
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
MOG, platform for music blogs, launches vertical ad network — Today, MOG, a blogging platform and content aggregator for music-oriented blogs, is launching the MOG Music Network, a vertical ad network that targets music-oriented sites and blogs. The company has also added legendary producer Rick Rubin to its board.
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Peter / The Local Onliner:
Freedom Interactive CEO Mathieu Leaves for YuMe Video Network — Freedom Interactive CEO Michael Mathieu is leaving to be CEO of YuMe Networks, which is sort of positioned as the “DoubleClick of Video.” YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, CA and backed to the tune …
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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 …
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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 …
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Industry Standard, Coop's Corner, Beet.TV, GeekBrief.TV, MarketingShift, Podcasting News, The Universal Desktop and ReadWriteWeb
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Users Fight Back Against the New Facebook — Facebook users are typically not receptive to change. When Facebook unleashed the News Feed a couple years ago, the Facebook user base fought back, creating groups to remove the news feed and challenging Facebook on the lack of privacy under the new system.
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Steve Weis / Google Online Security Blog:
Keyczar: Safe and Simple Cryptography — Cryptography is notoriously hard to get right and if improperly used, can create serious security holes. Common mistakes include using the wrong cipher modes or obsolete algorithms, composing primitives in an unsafe manner, hard-coding keys in source code …
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Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile — After a couple of weeks since the iPhone 3G launch, I gave in and picked up a device at the Apple store just over a week ago to personally give it a try. It is a good device, but the only two improvements over my original iPhone are the 3G support and GPS.
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Scott Moritz / Fortune:Analyst: 3 million iPhones sold in first month
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TeleRead, Infinite Loop, IntoMobile, Techcraver.com, Silicon Alley Insider, GMSV, Gizmodo, TUAW, MacRumors iPhone Blog and Apple Gazette
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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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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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?”
