Current Gmail outage

Current Gmail outage

If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably
aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 10 9:30am
GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and
businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email.

We’re working very hard to solve the problem and we’re really sorry
for the inconvenience. Those users in the US and UK who have enabled
Gmail offline through Gmail Labs should be able to access their inbox,
although they won’t be able to send or receive emails.

We’re posting updates to the Gmail Help Centre at http://mail.google.com/suppor
t/ and Google Apps users can visit the Google Apps help centre at
www.google.com/support/a
..

Thanks for bearing with us while we sort this out. We'll report back
as we make progress.

Posted by Acacio Cruz, Gmail Site Reliability Manager

Sent while on the go, iPhone style

"When Gmail went down. =( At least I could access it on my iPhone"
<vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:729038b1-a176-415f-a0a8-a64c447ada21
@r34g2000vbp.googlegroups.com:

> Google Apps

Must be queer to iPhone and other Google Apps users. There's 2 messages on
my IMAP connected Linux tablet blinking away at me as I type this. The
IMAP server must be running fine.

On Feb 24, 10:26*am, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> "When Gmail went down. =( At least I could access it on my iPhone"
> <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote in news:729038b1-a176-415f-a0a8-a64c447ada21
> @r34g2000vbp.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Google Apps
>
> Must be queer to iPhone and other Google Apps users. *There's 2 messages on
> my IMAP connected Linux tablet blinking away at me as I type this. *The
> IMAP server must be running fine.

Well duh

Its been fixed for awhile Larry.

BTW did you see Nokia is firing another 1000 employees this morning!
Those little castrated no phone tablets must not have made Nokia any
money.Better buy some more for parts in case Nokia isn't up to
supporting them much longer.

Did you get your free iPhop breakfast today?

On Feb 24, 10:26*am, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> "When Gmail went down. =( At least I could access it on my iPhone"
> <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote in news:729038b1-a176-415f-a0a8-a64c447ada21
> @r34g2000vbp.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Google Apps
>
> Must be queer to iPhone and other Google Apps users. *There's 2 messages on
> my IMAP connected Linux tablet blinking away at me as I type this. *The
> IMAP server must be running fine.

Google_Inc : Update on Gmail: The Gmail outage that affected many
consumers and Google Apps users worldwide is now over. User..
http://tinyurl.com/aloead

"When Gmail went down. =( At least I could access it on my iPhone"
<vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:729038b1-a176-415f-a0a8-a64c447ada21@r34g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
> Current Gmail outage
>
> If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably
> aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 10 9:30am
> GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and
> businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email...

That really should give anyone hyper-reliant on cloud-based services pause,
since you can't guarantee they'll be up when you need them. I.e. Google
Docs isn't a replacement for on-device storage, "web apps" aren't
replacements for local executables, etc.

I'm a fan of cloud-based services, but only as a backup for local
capabilities.

I'm really enjoying MS' Live Mesh service on my WinMo devices- I have all of
my device's important data (apps, docs, PIM, etc.) backed up to the Mesh
cloud, so I can restore all of my data in case of disaster, even without my
PC anywhere nearby, as long as I have an internet connection.


> Sent while on the go, iPhone style

What's "iPhone style?" You mean you had to type that all in rather than
just paste it?

At 24 Feb 2009 07:43:56 -0800 When Gmail went down. =( At least I could
access it on my iPhone wrote:

> Those little castrated no phone tablets must not have made Nokia any
> money.

No, the web tablets haven't made nokia any money. It's sort of an R&D
"side business" without any real commercial benefit to the company.

Much like Apple TV! ;-)

"When Gmail went down. =( At least I could access it on my iPhone"
<vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:f535b30d-4243-4b37-9d36-
532574ff523a@e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com:

> BTW did you see Nokia is firing another 1000 employees this morning!
> Those little castrated no phone tablets must not have made Nokia any
> money.Better buy some more for parts in case Nokia isn't up to
> supporting them much longer.
>
>

You're dumber than I thought:

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=6191

Nokia 38.6%
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Samsung 16.2%
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Motorola and LG 8.3%
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Sony Ericsson 8%
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RIM 1.9%
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iPhone (my calc doesn't do fractions of % well)

"When Gmail went down. =( At least I could access it on my iPhone"
<vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:f535b30d-4243-4b37-9d36-
532574ff523a@e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com:

> Did you get your free iPhop breakfast today?
>
>

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=6449

"Physorg is reporting that a study by Pinch Media shows that only one
percent of iPhone applications downloaded by users have a long life term of
use and that less than 5 percent of users who download an application
actively use it a month after downloading it. Only 30 percent of users who
purchased an app use it the following day. While paid applications have a
higher rate of use than free apps, the drop off is still substantial. The
study also said that games are used for a longer time period than other
applications."

Children have short attention spans....especially for flashlights.

Maybe if the non-game apps had cut-and-paste or would run WITH other apps
or a phone call without dumping them.....

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in news:cUXol.36862
$6r1.6689@newsfe19.iad:

> At 24 Feb 2009 07:43:56 -0800 When Gmail went down. =( At least I
could
> access it on my iPhone wrote:
>
>> Those little castrated no phone tablets must not have made Nokia any
>> money.
>
> No, the web tablets haven't made nokia any money. It's sort of an R&D
> "side business" without any real commercial benefit to the company.
>
> Much like Apple TV! ;-)
>

It would be rather hard for him to understand a company like Nokia
that's SO LARGE they have a very active open source community they
support never intending to make a dime....but using the huge idea base
such a community creates for their commercial product lines.

It's why Nokia bought Symbian, then decided it was a good thing to make
it an open source community, too, to see what happens....letting a whole
world of genius coders have at the code. This has benefitted both
Symbian and Nokia very well, so far.

The Linux tablets were never widely marketed but have done much better
than Nokia dreamed they could...much to their delight.

Nokia Beta Labs are a very strange lot, to be sure, compared to your
local engineers. But, we are constantly hanging around the chute
holding our devices out to catch the tidbits that drop out the bottom to
play with.

Case in point:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view...ing-calculator
We are asked before closing this piece to comment and send in our
handwriting samples for the system analysts and coders to make it work
over a wider and wider range of hand scribblings. The calculator is the
carrot dangling on the stick. Nokia's not interested in calculators.
What this calculator is is a test bed for handwriting recognition on
some future amazing product we users may have had a hand in helping make
it work better.....at low cost to the company. Every new version is a
real improvement....

http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/current
More neat stuff here....

Todd Allcock wrote:
>
> "When Gmail went down. =( At least I could access it on my iPhone"
> <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:729038b1-a176-415f-a0a8-a64c447ada21@r34g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
>> Current Gmail outage
>>
>> If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably
>> aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 10 9:30am
>> GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and
>> businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email...
>
> That really should give anyone hyper-reliant on cloud-based services
> pause, since you can't guarantee they'll be up when you need them. I.e.
> Google Docs isn't a replacement for on-device storage, "web apps" aren't
> replacements for local executables, etc.

Was it just the web interface that was down? I didn't notice any
problems with getting gmail via Thunderbird.

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:1Dcpl.23517$ZP4.13496@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com...

>>> If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably
>>> aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 10 9:30am
>>> GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and
>>> businesses accounts worldwide could not get access to their email...
>>
>> That really should give anyone hyper-reliant on cloud-based services
>> pause, since you can't guarantee they'll be up when you need them. I.e.
>> Google Docs isn't a replacement for on-device storage, "web apps" aren't
>> replacements for local executables, etc.
>
> Was it just the web interface that was down? I didn't notice any problems
> with getting gmail via Thunderbird.

I don't know- I use my GMail account so very rarely, and only via IMAP, I
wouldn't notice an outage of only a few hours.