Monday, January 27, 2014

Google fixes Gmail after brief outage around the world

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc suffered a service outage on Friday that briefly took down Gmail, the email service used by hundreds of millions of people and many businesses across the globe.</p><p>Google, which first acknowledged the outage at 11:12 a.m. Pacific Time (1412 ET), said a little over an hour later that the problem with Gmail had been resolved.</p><p>As of late Friday, the company did not offer an explanation for the outage, which affected users in at least India, Britain and the United States and prompted a stream of complaints on Twitter from users in many more countries.</p><p>"We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly," the company said on its "App Status" dashboard online, which tracks the state of various Google services.</p><p><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-gmail-20140124,0,6079962.story">Keep reading...</a></p>

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