Tag: OUTAGES

Gmail users worldwide suffered the agony of a service outage that lasted for about two-and-a-half hours, starting at 4:30 am EST today. Google's blog reports that both consumer and business accounts were affected, no doubt severely disrupting many in Europe, where the business day was just beginning. According to Google, users in the UK and US who have enabled Gmail Lab's 'Offline' feature had ...

You can't beat free online e-mail. You want a different e-mail address for every day of the week? You got it. Need separate accounts for those sites you just know are going to spam you like there's no tomorrow? No problem. No problem, that is, until those sites go down, which is exactly what happened to Microsoft yesterday. Most users of the company's Windows Live suite of tools, which includes ...