Google Apps Gmail service goes down for third time in a month

29 March 2007

Google Apps Gmail service goes down for third time in a month
Computerworld UK – Mar 28, 2007

Google Apps is the suite of hosted services that many consider a potential threat to Microsoft's Office.
The latest problem began affecting users on Tuesday. It remained unresolved several hours later, also affecting regular Gmail users who are not on Google Apps, a company spokesperson said.


Google Apps' Gmail faces downtime problems
Computerworld – Mar 28, 2007

For at least the third time this month, Google is grappling with performance and availability problems in the Gmail service of Google Apps, the suite of hosted services that many consider a potential threat to Microsoft's Office suite of desktop software.


LG to Add Google Services to Phones
eWeek, MA – Mar 28, 2007

SEOUL (Reuters)—South Korea's LG Electronic Inc. and Internet search giant Google Inc. on Wednesday said they would pre-install Google services on LG mobile phones.

LG handsets with Google products and services, such as Google Maps, Gmail and Blogger, will be shipped to North America, Europe and Asia starting in the second quarter of 2007, the companies said.


It's Google on LG, Yahoo on Virgin
ZDNet – Mar 28, 2007

Google and Yahoo separately announced on Wednesday that their services will be featured on two different mobile phones.

Yahoo has partnered with Virgin Mobile USA to have Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger preloaded on several of Virgin's handsets. Yahoo Mobile Web also will be the search tool of choice for Virgin's Surf the Web service.


Users want more tools to slay spam
Computerworld, MA – Mar 28, 2007

Even though most e-mail users already rely on antispam tools to keep their in-boxes from being overwhelmed by unsolicited messages, they're still not satisfied, a survey reported today.

More than 80% of 2,200 online users polled know about -- and use -- the "Report Spam" features in their e-mail software or within their Web-based services of choice, said the poll, which was sponsored by the Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC).


Latest GPLv3 takes hard line on Microsoft-Novell deal
Computerworld, MA – Mar 28, 2007

The Free Software Foundation on Wednesday released the penultimate draft of its planned third version of a popular license for free and open-source software, the GNU general public license (GPL).

Created by Richard Stallman in 1989 for the GNU free operating system project, the GPL was last fully revised 16 years ago. The license gives users the right to freely study, copy, modify, reuse, share and redistribute software.


Latest Draft of GPL 3 Comes Under Fire
eWeek, MA - 2 hours ago

Corporate reaction to the release of the third discussion draft of the GNU GPL (General Public License) has been swift, much of it critical of the changes with how patents are dealt with.