Gmail email FAIL: why Gmail went down. #gonegoogle
September 6, 2009 by Alex
Filed under Computers, Networking
Gmail, Google’s email service, was down for an hour or two yesterday, causing widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth. Not just the free version, but also the Google Apps email service was affected. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers discover why it happened, as they check their SLAs.
Your humble blogwatcher has selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to [...]
TiVo awarded $200 million in Dish Network patent suit
September 5, 2009 by Alex
Filed under Electronics, Networking
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. district court awarded TiVo Inc, a maker of DVR boxes, nearly $200 million in damages in its long-running patent case with Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp.
The U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas ruled to impose contempt sanctions against sister companies Dish and EchoStar for violating a court-ordered permanent [...]
Google’s Colonization of E-Book Devices Continues Apace
September 3, 2009 by Alex
Filed under Networking
With more deals to make digitized public-domain books available for free, Google seems intent on being a part of as many non-Kindle e-book readers as possible.
The U.K.’s Interead on Tuesday announced an agreement with Google (GOOG) to make more than a million titles from the search giant’s vast library of digitized public-domain books available for [...]
Facebook Connect Goes Mobile
September 3, 2009 by Alex
Filed under CELL & MOBILE PHONES, Networking
Facebook is extending its Connect data portability technology to developers of mobile sites and applications, following its launch six months ago for iPhone developers, the company announced Thursday in an official blog.
Connect creates a link between Facebook and external sites to let people use their previously created Facebook accounts to sign in to these other [...]
