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Yahoo Mail is Unhappy This Morning

Monday, October 26, 2009

TechCrunch’s Leena Rao is reporting that Yahoo Mail is suffering a widespread but non-universal outage at the moment. Yup, I can’t get in to my account, but the first person I asked to check was fine. Rao also says that Yahoo Mail is the most popular Webmail service, with over 300 million users. Let’s see if [...]

5Words: The End of E-Mail?

Monday, October 12, 2009

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E-Mail is no longer king. LG’s e-reader is sun-powered. Twitter doing video? Actually, no. PSP Go: a gamer’s nightmare. It’s a video iPod Shuffle! Make existing USB gadgets wireless. Homeland security, Wii Fit style! Gizmodo reviews Nokia’s Booklet netbook. Does Windows 7 boot slowly? So long iTunes, hello DoubleTwist. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

Yesterday’s Gmail Outage: Google Responds

Friday, September 25, 2009

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Yesterday night, I blogged about Gmail’s most recent outage and Google’s communications about it and about glitches in general. This afternoon, Andrew Kovacs of the company’s PR department called to respond to the post. He explained the company’s philosophy about responding to technical issues and conceded that Gmail (which had another major outage on September [...]

Rocky Mountain Bank: Rocky, Rocky Security!

Friday, September 25, 2009

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MediaPost is reporting that Rocky Mountain Bank, a small institution in Wyoming, accidentally e-mailed the names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and loan information to a Gmail address. When it realized its mistake, it e-mailed the address again and got no response–so it went to court, and a California appellate court judge has told Google that [...]

Gmail Outages: The Debate Continues

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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[UPDATE: Google responded to this post with some details about Gmail outages and how it responds to them.] For about two and a half hours this morning, some Gmail users found that their contacts or the entire service was unavailable. Once the service bounced back, folks continued to debate whether Google outages are a sign of [...]

Gmail: Sick Again

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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I awoke this morning to find that hundreds of folks were reading an old Techologizer story on Gmail problems–which is always a sign that Gmail is misbehaving on a grand scale. As usual, I checked my own two Gmail accounts, and found that my inboxes were available–but that both were displaying a message I’d never [...]

DEMOfall’s Two Worthy Winners

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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I’m jetting home from DEMOfall 09 (on a Wi-Fi enabled plane–God bless Virgin America). The show ended with an awards ceremony that included best-of-show honors for the conference’s best consumer-oriented product and best business-related one, as judged by a panel of experts. (Each company got $500,000 worth of advertising at publications and sites owned by [...]

Google Sync Now Pushes Gmail to iPhones (and Windows Mobile)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Back in February, Google launched iPhone and Windows Mobile versions of Google Sync, a service that let you sync contacts and calendar items from Google’s services to your phone. It didn’t, however sync Gmail–which would have been especially nice for iPhone users since Apple’s Gmail support doesn’t push Gmail to the phone as soon as [...]

Threadsy: An Intriguing First Draft

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Yesterday, I was all excited over Threadsy, the Web-based universal communications service that was one of my favorite launches at TechCrunch50. Shortly after I applied for an invite to the private beta, it arrived. So I’ve been using Threadsy–and while I’m still excited about its potential, the hands-on experience also reminds me what a daunting [...]

Threadsy: All Your Communications, All in One Place

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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I’m still at TechCrunch50–it’s winding down, but there’s still so much going on that you’ll miss a product launch or two if you so much as take a restroom break. The debut that’s happening right now is one of the most interesting ones so far: Threadsy is a Web-based integrated communications service that looks uncommonly [...]

5Words for Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS. Google explains the Gmail outage. Of Google, outages, the future. Nokia netbook: very neat, pricey. Pandora upgrades its desktop app. Twitter has a porn problem? Sony’s thin, thin VAIO X. Sorry, Google Voice: iPhone Vonage. Xbox 360 is reliably unreliable.

Down and Out With Gmail

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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[UPDATE AS OF 2:30PM TECHNOLOGIZER TIME: Gmail is back up, at least for me.] Gmail is not feeling well today. I know because it’s the talk of Twitter. I know because an old Technologizer story happens to be Google’s first result for “gmail down.” Most of all, I know because both my primary work and personal [...]

reMail: All Your E-Mail, All on Your iPhone

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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Google’s Gmail has trained a lot of us to think of an inbox as a place with near-instant access to all our e-mail. reMail–an e-mail search application for the iPhone that’s available in an all-new version on sale for $4.99 today–brings some of the same sensibility to the iPhone. (Makes sense: Gabor Cselle, CEO of [...]

Facebook Crushes E-mail When It Comes to Sharing

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Given Facebook’s immense popularity, it comes as no surprise that it is the top place to share information, according to Mashable and sharing widget maker AddToAny. Facebook accounts for 24% of the sharing of links to articles, videos and other content, far outpacing second-place e-mail at 11%. E-mail’s hold on the second slot is in [...]

Gmail’s Labels: Now Even More Like Folders!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Gmail’s Labels, which started out as a contrarian alternative to the folders used by every other e-mail app on the planet, are getting more and more folder-like. Google is moving the list of Labels to sit right below your inbox (you know, where folders generally reside) and now lets you drag e-mails to a Label [...]

Google Syncs Google Apps With Outloook

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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I’m at a Google Apps press event at San Francisco’s Clift hotel, where Google execs are talking up Google Apps as a Microsoft Office alternative for big companies. They’re bragging about their productivity apps (one rep just said that Gmail is the world’s best e-mail app, period) and touting large companies that have deployed Apps [...]