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Source:CenterNetworks

Google Mail (Gmail) is currently down. As of 5:30pm Eastern, reports have been coming in for the last 20-30 minutes. In our testing, we too see that the beta mail service is currently out of action.

Using the Twitter theorem, Google Mail users are now moving to Yahoo Mail.

The good news is that Google is classifying this outage as a "temporary error 502". I would be more seriously worried if it was a 942.1 or a 610,8. As usual, please report in if your Gmail is down. We will continue to post updates as we get them.

Update 5:40PM - We are now receiving reports that some people have access to their email while most are still seeing the error message below. Rafe Needleman of CNET reports that if you were in Gmail before it busted, you are still able to use the service.

Update: 5:51PM - Veronica Belmont notes that if you access Gmail via the HTML option, it works fine. Go go go!

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Source:CenterNetworks

The news I am about to share is very exciting. I had to take a deep breath before posting this news. You ready?

Dell has selected Twitter for live Q&A during their "Global Mobility Event" tomorrow. The event will be held in San Francisco and will be live-streamed. Rather than use a chat service, Dell has decided that Twitter is the way-to-go for the event. Dell notes:

Users of Twitter…will be able to ask questions about Dell’s new products and the company will “tweet” the answers. Reporters and customers on Twitter can direct questions during the news conference to www.twitter.com/Digital_Nomads. Dell will also blog about the Global Mobility Event at Direct2Dell. Dell is among the first major companies to offer reporters and customers the opportunity to ask questions on Twitter during a live news conference."

An interactive chat would make more sense as the viewers of the event can chat in real-time. Twitter doesn’t provide this type of interactivity and instead will act more like email with the back and forth. We will watch the event live and will report back on any major announcements.

In case you are wondering, here’s my first question to the Dell Twitter account during the event, "So Dell, what’s the status of your trademark claim on Cloud Computing?"

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