The Google email service, Gmail, went down on Tuesday for over 2 hours. Google has admitted that the Gmail downtime was a “Big Deal” for millions of domestic and business users.

Google have admitted that the outage was a result of routine server maintenance. A few of its servers were taken offline which resulted in the remaining servers being overloaded with traffic. Google has apologised and has said it will make every effort to stop the issue from happening again in the future. The Gadgetwise blog has reported that the issue was intensified as Google use Gmail internally and were unable to communicate.

Gmail is normally a very reliable and trusted service although there have been three outages this year, Google has rectified the issues extremely quickly maintaining the service. In June ComScore reported that Gmail had over 149 million worldwide users.
Gmail is also an important and integral part of many large and international businesses. More and more companies are switching to Gmail, delivering email over the internet and scrapping in-house email solutions. Outsourcing email online is extremely cost effective and can potentially save companies a lot of money and offer a larger amount of storage and functionality.

Despite yesterday’s issue Gmail is held in high regard, we have yet to see if yesterday’s outage will damage the image of Gmail as a reliable business tool.

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Hotmail has added some new Bing featured to its email interface allowing users to add content to outgoing emails. The feature is called “Quick Add” and allows you to include a variety of Bing content including images, videos, maps, restaurant reviews and movie times. The new feature is available to Hotmail users in Australia, Canada, China, India, US, and the UK.

The feature is simple to use, just start to compose a new email message, select the content you require from the quick add box which is on the right hand side, search the Bing search box and then insert your results directly into your email. “Bing!” it’s that simple, although can’t we do this already with cut and paste?



Actually it is a handy feature and it does speed up finding content to add to an email you’re composing but normally a user would have already found what they wanted to send to someone before writing an email. Not really sure how useful this feature is but it works great.

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