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9:50 AM ET, August 12, 2008

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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
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.
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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 …
Discussion: Gizmodo, OhGizmo! and eWeek
Xavier / notebooks.com:
ThinkPad W700: Lenovo Intros Biggest ThinkPad Yet (videos)
Discussion: GottaBeMobile
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.
Discussion: David Risley, Mashable! and GigaOM
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Twitter limiting followers to 2000  —  Just read in various places that people are getting messages from Twitter saying that there's a limit of 2000 followers per account.  —  Lots to say about this of course!  —  1. My first take: Probably a good idea.  —  2. Is this a problem for people?
Discussion: Loic Le Meur Blog and broadstuff
David Risley:
Twitter Limits to 2000 Follows. Could They Charge To Lift The Limit?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Much Anticipated DataCase Launches: Turn the iPhone Into A Wireless Drive  —  The much anticipated DataCase application for the iPhone launched this morning.  —  The app, which costs $6.99, turn your iPhone into an easy-to-use wireless storage device that can be access by any other device on your wireless network.
Discussion: TUAW
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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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent  —  Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Discussion: DSLreports and MediaFile
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 …
Stephanie Condon / The Iconoclast:
States may tax iTunes, other digital downloads  —  If you enjoy buying music from iTunes, movies from Amazon.com's Unbox, or computer software from anywhere, be warned: the halcyon days of tax-free digital purchases may be over.  —  With retail e-commerce sales now estimated to exceed $130 billion a year …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Global Trail of an Online Crime Ring  —  As an international ring of thieves plundered the credit card numbers of millions of Americans, investigators struggled to figure out who was orchestrating the crimes in the United States.  —  When prosecutors unveiled indictments last week …
Discussion: Payments News and Know It All
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Is Amazon's Kindle the iPod of the book world?  —  Can Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader ever make the mainstream?  —  Amazon's shareholders will hope so - its stock rose 8% yesterday off the back of an estimate by Citigroup analyst Mark Mahoney, who said sales will reach 380,000 by the end of this year.
Discussion: The Register, Reuters and Epicenter
Shawn / TmoNews:
Android may be here sooner then we think  —  We're hearing rumor after rumor that Android has been delayed, and pushed back to 2009.  Well TmoNews is jumping into the pool or rumors, calling BS on those other rumors, and putting in our vote of confidence on a presale of the Android phone on September 16th, 2008.
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 …
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 Svensson / Associated Press:
Broadband growth plummets in 2Q, cable stronger
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Cornelia Dean / New York Times:
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Jon Brodkin / Network World:
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Business Wire:
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Dylan Jobe / PlayStation.Blog:
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HP:
HP Brings DreamColor Accuracy to Mobile Power Users
Discussion: InformationWeek and Engadget
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Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal:
Camera Ready  —  New tools and services make it easy …
Discussion: Lost Remote and Screenwerk
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
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Discussion: Social Media Club
GamesIndustry.biz:
Microsoft: “The Wii third party game story is not a pretty one”
David Robinson / Freedom to Tinker:
Is the New York Times a Confused Company?
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
AMD to Nvidia: Two chips are better than one
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Users Fight Back Against the New Facebook
Leslie Katz / Crave: The gadget blog:
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DealBook:
Yahoo's Advisory Bill Hits $36 Million
Discussion: Portfolio.com and Pulse 2.0