Indeed, Gmail was down

First look: Opera Mini for iPhone

Apple on Monday approved the Opera Mini browser for the iPhone, and the software is now available to download for free from the App Store. Speculation was rife that Apple wouldn.

Official Netflix app coming for iPad

Apple has approved the official Netflix app for the iPad, which will be available in the App Store starting April 3rd. The iPad app will work as part of an unlimited Netflix membe.

App Store porn purge after series of complaints

Apple have taken steps to remove all sexually suggestive apps from the App Store after a series of complaints from women and parents. The problem came to head four days ago, w.

Mobile firms unite to take on App Store

The iPhone’s dominance over mobile applications could be numbered. 24 mobile networks across the world, including the likes of iPhone carriers Orange and Vodafone, are to uni.

Browse: Home → Mac → Indeed, Gmail was down

Indeed, Gmail was down

01 September 2009
Mac
0 Comment

Google Mail (Gmail) was down for a considerable amount of time on Tuesday. The webmail service was unavailable for a majority of its users for over two hours.

The first reports of the Gmail outage came, as usual, from Twitter users, who turned to the micro blogging service to complain. Shortly after, Google talked about the problem on the Official Gmail Blog, saying it is “currently looking into the issue and hope to have more info to share here shortly.”

Gmail has over 450 million users worldwide and is the third largest email provider in the US, after market leader Yahoo and Microsoft Hotmail in second place. Tuesday’s Gmail outage is the second largest one after widespread downtime of the service in February this year.

During the outage, Gmail was accessible to users only via IMAP and POP3 protocols, so it was business as usual for those using Gmail with the Mail app. Users could also use iGoogle to check their emails, but they weren’t able to send attachments this way.

Gmail is back up now, both for regular and Google Apps users. It is yet unknown what caused the Gmail outage on Tuesday and Google has been keeping mum on details about that so far. In the meantime, Google apologised for the inconvenience.

Update: Tuesday’s Gmail outage was caused by overloaded servers, Google said in a blog post. This happened after workers took some of the servers down for routine upgrades.