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Gmail Outage Prompts Apology
Gmail users with Google Gears installed were able to access their in-boxes during
the outage Tuesday morning. Gmail has about 113 million users worldwide. read more
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Yahoo Declares Open War On Google
If you glossed over the news about Yahoo's new mobile application for smartphones
earlier this week, I'd invite you to take another look. Yahoo Mobile integrates
all its services in one place better than Google does. read more
Microsoft Wants Chat With Yahoo About Search Deal
A partnership would make sense given Google's lead in search, Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer said. read more
Google Searches Measure Economic Misery
Google searches provide insight into the spread of the flu, so it's perhaps
no surprise that they also reveal something about our ailing economy. read more
Did Google Tip HTC And T-Mobile's Plans For The Magic?
Last week's Mobile World Congress was a disappointment if you were looking
for Android news. The one real interesting handset announced was HTC's Magic,
which is only headed for Vodafone's European markets -- unless you believe in
a slide presented by Google itself. read more
Google Demos Offline Gmail For Phones
The Web-based mobile app uses the HTML5 standard to let users browse and
read e-mails without Internet connectivity. read more
Mobile Advertising Edges Closer To Breakthrough
Operators hoping for a boost should likely not hold their breath, as the
majority of advertising dollars are expected to go to the publishers such
as Google. read more
Yahoo Search Share Rises As Google Declines
Microsoft also saw its U.S. search market share rise, capturing 8.5% of the
U.S search market. read more
TradeComet.com Files Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
TradeComet.com, which runs a business-to-business search site, says Google
raised its prices for keywords by 10,000% and killed its business. The company
filed suit today in New York City, claiming that Google violated antitrust
laws by eliminating competition and choice. read more
'Guitar Hero' Rocks On To Android
With the introduction of paid applications in the Android Market, a wave of
high-profile games may be coming to Google's mobile platform. read more
Google Earth's 'Atlantis' Just A Data Glitch
While Google's mapping program is turning up many formerly hidden objects, a
lost city under the sea isn't one of them, says a company spokesperson. read more
Black Hat: Google Gears Offline Data Vulnerable
Google defends its product after a demonstration of a Web service-based attack
using a cross-site scripting vulnerability. read more
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Editor's Note
Gmail Outage: Why It's More Enterprise-Ready Than Ever
 | David Berlind
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Barely one month has passed since the folks at Google announced that users of
Gmail would be able to access their in-boxes even though the Gmail servers themselves
were inaccessible -- for example, if (a) you have no Internet connectivity or (b)
the Gmail service goes down. It was only a matter of time before a Gmail failure
put the newly announced offline mode to the test. Although most of us here in the
U.S. didn't notice, that test came yesterday, just as Europe's business cycle was
getting under way.
By the time I woke up yesterday, Twittersphere Europe was all abuzz (and in a rotten
mood) because of how the Gmail browser-based e-mail service had apparently gone down
for the count. It happened so early that even the Official Gmail Blog missed the
outage and, instead, Google was keeping users apprised of the news via the mother
of all Google blogs: The Official Google Blog itself.
Such transparency has become so commonplace with Web 2.0 companies that we hardly
think anything of it anymore. So, let's just take a time out to remember what life
was like a decade ago when it took intense pressure from the trade press on a
per-bug basis before companies would come clean about their problems.
Have things improved, or what!
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