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Yahoo Mail down for some users

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Updated 2:53 p.m. ET.

(CBS News) Yahoo confirmed Tuesday that some services are not working.

"Some Yahoo! services are currently inaccessible to our users. We are working to correct the issue and apologize to affected users," @YahooInc tweeted.

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Hulu Plus launches on Apple TV

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(CBS News) Hulu, the online TV and movie streaming service, is now available on Apple TV.

News Corp buys stake in Web video player Roku

Subscribers of Hulu Plus will now be able to watch streaming videos using Apple's digital media receiver by signing in with existing Hulu login credentials.

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Spotify launches unlimited radio for Android

Spotify launches radio for Android.

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(CBS News) Spotify, the popular music-streaming service, announced Tuesday a free unlimited radio for Android devices.

Spotify launches music service in the U.S.
Spotify introduces apps, becomes music platform
Full coverage of Spotify at Tech Talk

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Twitter suspends man who tweeted NBC exec's email

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(CBS News) Guy Adams, the Los Angeles bureau chief of Britain's The Independent newspaper, may not have anything nice to say about NBC's coverage of the London Olympic Games, but now he can't say anything at all - on Twitter, at least. Continue »

London Olympics officials: Don't tweet live events

Mark Cavendish of Great Britain finishes in 28th place as the riders aproach the Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace during the men's 249.5km road race on Day One of the 2012 Olympics on July 28, 2012, in London.

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(CBS News) The London Olympics will not be live tweeted - at least, not without sacrificing reliable television coverage, officials told fans Sunday.

Fans of the Olympic Games were told to only send urgent text messages and tweets to avoid a network overload that would affect television coverage.

Twitter to NBC: Livestream the opening ceremony
London 2012 gives Airbnb a boost in bookings

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Twitter to NBC: Livestream the opening ceremony

The Olympic Rings are displayed on Tower Bridge over the river Thames in central London on July 22, 2012. The London 2012 Olympic Games begin on July 27, 2012.

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(CBS News) The London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony kicks off at 9 p.m. local time for Britons. Anxious fans stateside are flooding Twitter with complaints that NBC will not air the ceremony live. But has the digital age promoted an air of unrealistic expectations? Continue »

Twitter explains, apologizes for outage

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(CBS News) Twitter released an explanation and apology for the service outage on Thursday.

Twitter down on the heels of Google Talk outage
Twitter, Google Talk back up

The company said the root of the problem was a failure of two parallel systems at its data center.

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Instagram hits 80 million users

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(CBS News) Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing app is not going anywhere. The company announced Thursday that it has reached 80 million users.

Instagram hit 5 million users
Instagram launches for Android smartphones

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Twitter, Google Talk back up

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(CBS News) Twitter and Google Talk are back up after outages Thursday.

"Gchat" down, Google working on fix
Twitter down on the heels of Google Talk outage

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Twitter down on the heels of Google Talk outage

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(CBS News) Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, went down Thursday.

"Gchat" down, Google working on fix

A check of the Twitter's API status shows service disruptions through most services, including statuses, streams and search.

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James Holmes' missing Facebook account

People who knew suspect James Holmes in deadly movie theater attack when he was growing up in San Diego are shocked.

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(CBS News) "I am not a 24-year-old gun-slinging killer from Aurora," James P. Holmes wrote on Facebook Friday morning.

Holmes is a Denver man who shares first and last names with the suspect in the deadly shooting that took place at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie just hours before, James Eagan Holmes.

Full coverage of Aurora, Colo. shooting
"Dark Knight Rises" shooting witnesses spread news on Twitter

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"Gchat" down, Google working on fix

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(CBS News) Google Talk, the popular chat client also knowns as "Gtalk" or "Gchat," went down Thursday morning.

At 6:40 a.m. ET Thursday morning, the Google Apps Status Dashboard stated: "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Talk. We will provide more information shortly."

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London 2012 gives Airbnb a boost in bookings

British Royal Marine Martyn Williams, right, rappels down from a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter into the Tower of London with the Olympic torch, Friday, July 20, 2012, in London. The Olympic Torch arrived in London after it was carried around England in a relay of torchbearers to make its way to the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 27, 2012.

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(CBS News) Need a room for the London 2012 Olympics? Perhaps, like thousands of visitors, you should try Airbnb - the match-making service for vacation rentals.

According to a recent report by Bloomberg, the service has booked 4,500 vacation rentals in London over the next three weeks, which is three times the average for the city.

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Apple's OS X Mountain Lion launches, should you upgrade?

People walk by a poster for the new OSX Mountain Lion operating system at the Apple's World Wide Developers Conference on June 11, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif.

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(CBS News) Apple officially launched its newest Macintosh operating system Mountain Lion, OS X 10.8, on Wednesday.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion retails for $19.99 at the App Store. And while the price is right, it may not be the best choice for everyone.

What you need to know about Apple's new OS X
Apple OS X Mountain Lion may drop support for older Macs
WWDC 2012: OS X Mountain Lion, iCloud, iOS 6 updates

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Apple iPad mini, 13-inch MacBook Pro coming in fall

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(CBS News) Apple fans may have a reason to look forward to the fall. September may bring with it a smaller MacBook Pro with Retina Display and iPad mini.

Apple announces next generation MacBook Pro with Retina Display
WWDC 2012: OS X Mountain Lion, iCloud, iOS 6 updates
Full coverage of Apple at Tech Talk

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