If you have ever relied on any outside service to host your email or if you have ever had your email even routed from an outside service, there is the occasional outage. It is this occasional outage that occurs in the tech world that can become ‘outrage’ if it becomes persistent or routine. And a partial to full outage is what is happening with Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and its widely used Gmail service today. The service has been acting slow today and there was a TechCrunch article this morning complaining about service errors. While we have been able to use it, the service is currently down. It is down on the open public Gmail and on the corporate email hosting used by an endless number of small businesses.
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