This is not a drill. We repeat – this is NOT a drill. Google’s popular Gmail service is down and out. Twitter users around the world are ready to leap from tall buildings. Users everywhere are getting the notorious “Temporary Error” message. Google writes in a short note on their status page: “We’re investigating reports [...]
It’s good to see that angry ex-employees aren’t just coming from Goldman Sachs. A former Google employee who left the company to go work for Microsoft has blasted his former employer in a new blog post. James Whittaker slammed Google yesterday for stifling employee creativity and focusing too much on the bottom line. “My last [...]
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Google has just announced sweeping changes to its privacy policies that will allow the search behemoth to share user data collected across multiple services, an update that promises to stir controversy and raise a few eyebrows. The new privacy policies go into effect on March 1 and users have no choice but to accept the [...]
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Facebook continues to dominate every corner of the web. In fact, the term “Facebook” was the most-searched term of 2011, according to Experian Hitwise. This was the third consecutive year that Facebook placed at the top of the annual list. The company’s name accounted for 3.1 percent of all searches in 2011, a 46 percent [...]
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There’s certainly no shortage of April Fools Day fun over at Google today. Gmail Motion For starters, there’s Gmail Motion, which allows you to finally control Gmail with your body. The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. [...]
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Have you ever wondered how the story of the Nativity might have been different if there had been things like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and other social media websites around at the time? Well, the folks over at http://www.excentric.pt, a 50-person shop based in Lisbon, have put together a video that’s both amusing and amazing that [...]
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At first I thought Gmail‘s “conversation view” was very innovative and it’s what eventually lured me into switching my personal email account over to Gmail. There are definitely times, however, when I would rather see each reply and forward separately, as I inevitable end up missing one when there are replies from several different people. [...]
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Ever had one of those maddening moments where you just can’t seem to access Gmail no matter what you do? Sometimes this is due to a Gmail outage…but sometimes it isn’t. You could have a problem with your browser, Gmail could be temporarily unstable, or your work might block access to Gmail. So what can [...]
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