Archive for August, 2008

Google issued an apology to Gmail users who just experienced outages on the free e-mail application, leaving users mostly from the U.S., India and Canada without access to e-mail.

In a post on the official Gmail Blog, Todd Jackson, Gmail Product Manager apologized saying

We feel your pain, and we’re sorry

Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we’re really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly. Everything should be back to normal by the time you read this.

The blog entry goes on to note

We heard loud and clear today how much people care about their Gmail accounts. We followed all the emails to our support team and user group, we fielded phone calls from Google Apps customers and friends, and we saw the many Twitter posts. (We also heard from plenty of Googlers, who use Gmail for company email.) We never take for granted the commitment we’ve made to running an email service that you can count on.

We’ve identified the source of this issue and fixed it. In addition, as with all issues that affect Gmail and our other services, we’re conducting a full review of what went wrong and moving quickly to update our internal systems and procedures accordingly. We don’t usually post about problems like this on our blog, but we wanted to make an exception in this case since so many people were impacted. In general, though, if you spot a problem with your Gmail account, please visit the Gmail Help Center and user group, where the Gmail Guides are your fastest source of updates.

Again, we’re sorry.

Apple iPhone users will able to make calls without using cell phone minutes as Global IP Solutions announced Monday a software developer’s kit that enables voice over IP on Apple’s handset.

According to informationweek , ” The popularity of the iPhone, along with the emergence of various applications and faster connectivity, makes it an ideal platform for developing applications that incorporate quality real-time VoIP, giving consumers real-world communication experiences like in-game, multi-person chat,” said Emerick Woods, Global IP Solutions’ CEO, in a statement.

What do managers do? Why do we do it? How can you be part of it?. Management in business and human organization activity, in simple terms means the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals.

Here is the World’s 10 top management gurus you can learn management

1. C.K Prahalad
2. Bill Gates
3. Alan Greenspan
4. Michael E Porter
5. Gary Hamel
6. W Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
7. Thomas J Peters
8. Jack Welch
9. Richard Branson
10. James C Collins iii

[ World’s 10 top management gurus ]

iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple Inc. iTunes is an interface to manage the contents on Apple’s popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the Internet to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, feature length films and Movie Rentals.

iPod and iPhone owners know that Apple’s iTunes is the dominant software for managing digital media. But some aspects of iTunes driving nuts. Here is the list of 11 iTunes annoyances listed in Pcworld.

1. Wildly Inefficient Updates
2. DRM (Boo!)
3. No Monitoring of Music Folders
4. ‘Pushing’ of Other Programs by iTunes Installer
5. No Subscription Service–Still
6. ‘Neglected’ Podcasts Stop Downloading
7. The Mystery Check Box
8. NBC Shows–Bring Them Back!
9. Weak Dockable Player Controls (Updated)
10. Rotten at Exporting Playlists
11. No E-Books

[ 11 Things We Hate About iTunes ]