Faster Forward Archive: E-mail
Google explains e-mail glitch, apologizes
A storage software update caused thousands of Gmail users to lose access to their e-mail yesterday and Google was forced to go to its physical backup tapes to fully restore users' data.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 1, 2011; 3:59 AM ET |
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Some Gmail users lose all e-mails, chats
Some Gmail users found they had lost all of their e-mails and chats Sunday morning.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| February 28, 2011; 8:23 AM ET |
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Google adds optional two-step Gmail security
Google just launched a new, secured login for Gmail and other Google services.
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 10, 2011; 4:58 PM ET |
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AOL outage: You haven't got mail (updated 4x)
Remember when downtime at America Online would be headline material? A small subset of AOL's much-diminished population is getting a chance to relive that experience while a site-maintenance malfunction has taken their mail offline. The firm's AOL Mail Blog posted a note at 12:48 p.m. Monday about the disruption: We're...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 24, 2011; 4:10 PM ET |
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Google says Reader link coming back
Google said in a tweet on Friday that removing the Google Reader link from the top of the Gmail homepage was a mistake and Tech Crunch reported that the company plans to restore the link some time Monday morning.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| January 24, 2011; 9:05 AM ET |
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The mystery of the missing Hotmail messages (updated)
Hotmail users who made a New Year's Resolution to clean up their inboxes got some unexpected help in that project over the weekend: A glitch in Microsoft's free Web mail service mysteriously wiped out the folders of thousands of users from Dec. 30 to Jan. 2.
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 4, 2011; 9:45 AM ET |
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