Google has finally spoken out on the four-day long inaccessibility of Android’s Market and Gmail apps in China by saying that it was Google’s outage, not a Great Firewall block. On Monday, I speculated that authorities in China were doing this, in a new chapter in the ongoing Google-China controversy - but now we know that’s not the case. Both the Android Market and the Gmail for Android apps returned to normal service last night for most people, and then early this morning a Google spokesperson in Asia told PO Tech ...
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Oct 10 2011
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China Cripples Android With Fitful Blocks of Gmail, Market Apps
Google’s chronicle of woes in China has grown even larger, with the apparent Great Firewall block of Android’s Market and Gmail apps by authorities. The issues are intermittent now, but ongoing for the past 60 hours. Right now, the Gmail service is failing on my Android phone - although it has worked briefly for a few minutes this morning and last night - and the Market app is agonisingly slow and fitful. Gmail for Android and the Android Market are two key apps in Google’s popular mobile OS. Both have been ...
Jul 27 2011
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Gmail Market Penetration is 62% In India, World’s Highest By Far
We learned recently that one of the notable details about the rise of Google+ is how strongly it has taken hold of Indian early adopters, with that nation ranking only behind the US in terms of users on the new platform. But according to new data from comScore, the penetration of GMail in India is pretty remarkable as well, with a whopping market penetration of 62 percent. We recently reported about how the Indian government has come under fire because of its affinity for using free web mail. It appears that ...
Jul 29 2011
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Will Skype and Gmail Give Your Data to the Indian Government?
The recent Mumbai bomb blasts has the Indian government in a frenzy. Just after it gave RIM (Research in Motion) an deadline to hand over interception keys for its BlackBerry services, the government has now asked Skype and Google’s email service Gmail, to provide access to their data. These ultimatums are serious ploys by the government, as was echoed by the words of newly sworn-in junior Telecommunications and IT Minister Sachin Pilot, who said: There are a whole list of companies that have been asked to give provide solutions, because law enforcement ...
Jun 30 2011
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Google+ Not Actually Blocked in China, Just Being Slowly Throttled
Google+ is not actually blocked in China, contrary to reports today from the WSJ, TechCrunch and some other western media. Right now Google+ is accessible, but slow, for me here in mainland China. What's going on then? Well, pinging plus.google.com - try it with this ping tool - displays "packets lost" followed by a percentage figure. If it's 100% of info packets being lost, then it's very likely blocked, but if the number is lower, it's likely just being throttled, or having some other issue. Perhaps this is where the others ...
Jun 2 2011
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Google Uncovers Gmail Phishing Scam Originating From China
Google’s security team has revealed in a blog post that it has discovered a phishing scam aimed at collecting Gmail user passwords and email contents. The company has notified victims of the attack as well as the proper government authorities. Google’s Engineering Director Eric Grosse explains: This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists. Email messages ...
Mar 21 2011
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Google Takes a Huge Blow From China
The Gmail vs China tussle goes on… And today, Google “accused the Chinese government of making it difficult for Gmail users to access the service in the country.” According to a report from Reuters, Gmail users in China are able to log in but unable to send emails or access their address books. "There is no issue on our side, we have checked extensively," said a Google spokesperson. "This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail." No reason was reported on why China has blocked Gmail ...
Nov 12 2010
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Yahoo Mail Beta offers Social Media Integration
Amelia and I made a trip down to the Yahoo! office yesterday to check out Yahoo! Mail (Beta) and the new Messenger. Let me first establish that I started a Yahoo! account back when I was like, nine. That was when Yahoo! games were still in vogue, auctions were still up, before Hotmail came into my life, and before I abandoned everything and migrated to Gmail. So it was great seeing how Yahoo! was reinventing itself to stay relevant with today's technology. I would liken it to meeting an old friend that ...
Dec 4 2009
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Google Offers Free Holiday Snail Mail To Your Special Someone
Shevonne authors at ChicWriter.com and wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr, a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. Google has gone back to the good, old days when people actually used snail mail. During the holidays, Google is offering the chance for users to send one special person a postcard on its account. There are six designs to choose from, and you can write up to 255 words. To create your free Google holiday card, go here. I love that Google is doing this. Getting something in the mail is so much ...
Aug 28 2009
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Are you using Gmail? It’s Now The Top 3 US Email Provider
According to Comscore’s July statistics, Gmail enjoyed a 25% boost in visitors, making it the third largest web mail service provider. It was considered a close shave as it knocked AOL out of third position with 37 million visitors, just 0.6 million more than the latter’s 36.4 million visitors. Yahoo remains unthreatened by its rivals to be the top provider, bagging 106 million unique visitors in July. Expectedly, the number 2 position goes to Window Live Hotmail with 47 million visitors. Why Google Rocks There are many reasons that can explain Gmail’s success. ...
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