Googles Gmail Goes Black for Some Users
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Google's e-mail service, still in beta testing, is inaccessible for some users over the weekend.
Some users of Google Inc.s Gmail service were unable to access their accounts for a few hours over the weekend. A Google spokesman confirmed on Monday that accounts for a "small number" of users were unavailable for a number of hours on Sunday. He declined to specify the exact length of the outage, its nature or how many users were affected. "We have since fixed the problem, and all users can log in and resume normal use of Gmail at this time," he said.
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Yahoo and MSN, among others, have responded by increasing their storage limits. Yahoo also is preparing another update to its e-mail service after acquiring e-mail startup Oddpost Inc. last week.
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As an online reporter for eWEEK.com, Matt Hicks covers the fast-changing developments in Internet technologies. His coverage includes the growing field of Web conferencing software and services. With eight years as a business and technology journalist, Matt has gained insight into the market strategies of IT vendors as well as the needs of enterprise IT managers. He joined Ziff Davis in 1999 as a staff writer for the former Strategies section of eWEEK, where he wrote in-depth features about corporate strategies for e-business and enterprise software. In 2002, he moved to the News department at the magazine as a senior writer specializing in coverage of database software and enterprise networking. Later that year Matt started a yearlong fellowship in Washington, DC, after being awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship for Journalist. As a fellow, he spent nine months working on policy issues, including technology policy, in for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He rejoined Ziff Davis in August 2003 as a reporter dedicated to online coverage for eWEEK.com. Along with Web conferencing, he follows search engines, Web browsers, speech technology and the Internet domain-naming system.
