Hundreds of thousands of Gmail users woke up Monday to find their emails had vanished and they had lost their contacts. Initial estimates put the number of people affected at between 150,000 and 500,000. Google’s support forums are inundated with messages from angry users. The Internet giant indicates on its Apps Status Dashboard that service has been disrupted for Gmail, but that no other Google apps are affected. “We’ve had some big updates since initial reports,” Google spokesperson Jessica Kositz told the E-Commerce Times.
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Gmail Meltdown Casts Shadow on the Cloud
Posted by: Richard Adhikari February 28, 2011 12:53 PMHundreds of thousands of Gmail users woke up Monday to find their emails had vanished and they had lost their contacts. Initial estimates put the number of people affected at between 150,000 and 500,000. Google’s support forums are inundated with messages from angry users. The Internet giant indicates on its Apps Status Dashboard that service has been disrupted for Gmail, but that no other Google apps are affected. “We’ve had some big updates since initial reports,” Google spokesperson Jessica Kositz told the E-Commerce Times.