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Gmail Down for Some Users

Lauren Goode in News on April 17 at 10:47 am PT

Some of Gmail’s 350 million users took to Twitter this morning to complain that their Gmail accounts were down. Google has since acknowledged the outage, saying, “We’re aware that some users are experiencing an error when accessing their Gmail. We are working on a resolution and apologize for the inconvenience.” In the meantime, Google has directed users to the Google Apps Status Dashboard for updates.

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Facebook Suffers Temporary Service Outage in Europe

Lauren Goode in News on March 7 at 7:59 am PT

Facebook users in parts of Europe, including the U.K., were unable to access their Facebook accounts early Wednesday morning, due to what the company said were “technical difficulties.” Facebook said in a statement that the issue was now resolved. During the outage, some Facebook users took to Twitter to complain, posting with the hashtag “facebookdown.” Facebook last suffered a brief outage in early February, shortly after filing to go public.

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Verizon: 4G Data Service Returning After Overnight Outage

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 21, 2011 at 8:58 am PT

Verizon Wireless just confirmed the service outage on its 4G network that numerous customers noticed overnight, in an official statement: “Verizon Wireless 4G LTE service is returning to normal this morning after company engineers worked to resolve an issue with the 4G network during the early morning hours today. Throughout this time, 4G LTE customers were able to make voice calls and send and receive text messages. The 3G data network operated normally.”