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1:50 PM ET, May 14, 2009

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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  —  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.
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.
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
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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Biz / Twitter Blog:
We Learned A Lot  —  This morning we received lots of great info …
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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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Stuck On Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Or AOL?  Gmail Just Made It Incredibly Easy To Switch
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 …
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
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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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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
RealNetworks accuses MPAA of antitrust violations
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Techdirt
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: DSLreports and Seeking Alpha
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.
Discussion: Mashable! and CenterNetworks
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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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
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: All Points Blog
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.
Discussion: Contentinople and p2pnet
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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,” …
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 …
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: The Blog Pirate and Softpedia News
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
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 …
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.
Discussion: Boing Boing
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.
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.
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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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Yokum / Startup Company Lawyer:
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Jacqueline Emigh / BetaNews:
Dell changes its Windows vs. Linux netbook strategy, plans new subsidized model
Discussion: OStatic blogs, Liliputing and eWeek
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Microsoft begins working on SP3 for Vista
Discussion: Softpedia News
Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
AT&T announces the Samsung Jack, available on May 19th
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Miller / Engadget:
ASUS bringing 1008HA, UX50 and U80V laptops Stateside, we go hands-on
Discussion: Gizmodo, Liliputing and jkkmobile
Nic Fildes / Telegraph:
Vodafone drops ‘roaming’ charges for overseas calls
Discussion: Fast Company, Gizmodo and DailyTech
Lewis Page / The Register:
DARPA working on inertial-nav ‘Smart Boot’ tech
Discussion: CrunchGear and All Points Blog
Business Wire:
MSI Marks a New Era of Slim, Thin, and Light Notebooks With Its Latest X-Slim Series
Discussion: Engadget, SlashGear and Softpedia News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed Enables People/Group Tracking