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4:20 PM -- Today on Contentinople:

• Americans are consuming more media -- through TV, timeshifted TV, and Internet -- this year than ever before, Nielsen says in a new report. This increase in consumption is partially due to the fact that more consumers are multitasking -- surfing the Net while they watch TV.
  
  
• MTV has unleashed its new redesign of MTV.com, with new social features and a new editorial element, called "The Daily Fresh," which will provide "hand-picked, editorially curated content."
  
  

And in today's News Bits, we examine the cause of yesterday's massive Gmail outage.

— The Staff, Contentinople