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As simultaneously announced on GigaOM and The Apple Blog, Giga Omni Media has acquired The Apple Blog. This adds an entire blog of Apple-specific coverage to our growing network. If you’re keeping score, the GigaOM family of blogs now includes:

• GigaOM, for reporting and analysis of the big stories in Web 2.0, mobile, and other new technology.
• Web Worker Daily, for coverage of the new world of online work.
• NewTeeVee, for everything related to the video revolution.
• Earth2Tech, looking at the intersection of green and technology.
• OStatic, with thorough coverage of open source software and its ramifications.
• jkOnTheRun, covering the world of mobile devices.
• The Apple Blog, for news of all things Apple-related.

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Yahoo has unveiled a new personalized mobile web content management utility called onePlace. The tool, which will be launched in the second quarter of 2008 as part of Yahoo Go 3.0 (a previously announced mobile application that enables easy access to existing mobile Yahoo services), will be able to track on mobile devices emails, news feeds, web sites, videos, search queries and more.

For web workers, onePlace could be a great tool for on-the-go research and tracking pertinent mobile content.  For more, check out the complete post at GigaOm.

Amazon’s S3 cloud-based storage service went down earlier this morning, according to numerous tips we’ve received. The service has impacted many companies, including folks like Twitter. According to our tipsters, the service went down around 4:30 a.m., and is showing a 500 Internal Server Error message.

Read more over at GigaOm.