TechSpot en EspañolMost Popular
| Top Stories | Just in | Featured |
11 awesome applications you've never heard of featured
Microsoft to offer three-user Windows 7 Family Pack?
2K Games offers "Huge Game Pack" on Steam for $54
Fallout 3 gets 50% price cut on Steam this weekend
Apple issues advice on iPhone 3GS overheating
Firefox 3.5 breaks 5 million downloads in 24 hours
TS Community
| User Gallery | Recent Discussion |
 WATERFALL by kyleb05 |  AcidOsmosis by acidosmosis |
 My PC on windows vista premium by kyleb05 |  Inside my pc by Daveskater |
TechSpot RSSThe web
Google apologizes for Gmail outage
Yesterday a very large number of Gmail users (myself included) were locked out of their web accounts as they were faced with a “Temporary Error (502)” message and a variety of other error codes – though some report the POP and IMAP protocols were working fine. Google attributed the problem to issues with the service’s contact system (but provided no further details) and has since fixed the problem.
The search giant has made a public apology to its users while promising to conduct a full review of what went wrong and update its internal procedures accordingly. However, users were highly critical of Google’s inability to keep Gmail running smoothly, highlighting just how dependent many have become on web services.
The Gmail problems follow Google Docs and Spreadsheets access problems in July when customers were locked out of the web-based applications for over an hour. Other recent outages have affected customers of Amazon and Apple's MobileMe.
The search giant has made a public apology to its users while promising to conduct a full review of what went wrong and update its internal procedures accordingly. However, users were highly critical of Google’s inability to keep Gmail running smoothly, highlighting just how dependent many have become on web services.
The Gmail problems follow Google Docs and Spreadsheets access problems in July when customers were locked out of the web-based applications for over an hour. Other recent outages have affected customers of Amazon and Apple's MobileMe.
Related Stories
