|
Google Inc's Web-based email service on Thursday suffered its second technical problem in a month as users reported difficulty accessing their contacts. The disruption, which took 2-1/2 hours to resolve, followed a two-hour outage of Google's news website this week. Earlier this month, a majority of its email users were unable to access the service for more than an hour after routers got overloaded during a routine server upgrade. The series of disruptions comes as Google tries to compete with Microsoft Corp and International Business Machines Corp by extending its services to business users - who are likely to be less tolerant of long outages. Reports of the latest glitch flooded the Twitter microblogging site, with users posting comments highlighting and griping about the situation. "A problem with Google Contacts caused many Gmail users to experience slowness and degraded service for about an hour today," Google said in a statement. "Mail was back to full speed for everyone around 8 am Pacific and the issue affecting Contacts was resolved shortly after. We're sorry for the inconvenience." Gmail already competes with Microsoft's Hotmail and Yahoo Inc's Web-based e-mail. Google offers its email service for free but also sells a version to businesses with extra features and technical support for $50 per user per year. Fear of outages, in addition to security concerns, has been a reason many businesses are wary of adopting "cloud computing" technologies offered by Google as well as Salesforce.com and Amazon.com, which help deliver data and services over the Internet. |
Mixx
Facebook
Twitter
Digg
delicious
reddit
MySpace
StumbleUpon
LinkedIn
EU's Almunia offers Google chance to settle antitrust case, Google disagrees with opinion
The European Union's antitrust chief on Monday offered Google a chance to settle an investigation into allegations of anti-competitive behaviour after ...
26/11 attacks planned using Google Earth, says U.S commander
Google to meet French regulator on privacy policy
Chrome 19 now available, features Tab syncing
Google Drive gets Research tool
Samsung confirms Galaxy Nexus will not officially launch in India
Google engineer behind Street View data breach identified
The latest "should they-shouldn't they" event with Facebook is the lift of the minimu...
Leaked Images, Availability, Pricing,
Specs, Pre-order
Top 5 free all-in-one messengers for Windows
The number of instant messaging services have exploded, since the first...
Project Darpan: Digitizing Indian local languages
Compared to the relatively slow adoption rate of the traditional PC, that...
Top 10 tips for Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft’s browser Internet Explorer has been around a while and things
By Tech2
Portable Wi-Fi Drives for your smartphone
Nitish Kumar
Sat May 26, 18:41:21
Portable Wi-Fi Drives for your smartphone
Dr-Mosleh Ghaffari
Sat May 26, 18:30:11
Portable Wi-Fi Drives for your smartphone
Sidharth Chauhan
Sat May 26, 18:23:06
_011517074205_160x90.jpg "Epson Stylus Photo R3000")
Sony to roll-out ICS update next week,...
BlackBerry Curve 9320 announced in India...
Microsoft VP talks about Ballmer's...
Cisco won't invest in their Android...
About Us | Site Profile | Tech2 Team | IBNLive News | IBNLive Hindi News | Cricket News | Indian Stock Market | Policy | T & C
Copyright © 2011, Tech2.com India - A Network 18 India Venture
