Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on December 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

On multiple times, I, like many of you, have asked “why on Earth is Gmail still in beta?” It’s been around for over three years now, don’t you think it’s about time? I thought it was, but now I’m starting to understand why Gmail is still in beta. There are numerous people over at the Gmail Help Discussion Group reporting that when they try to login to their Gmail account, they get an error message saying that their account has been disabled. As you can imagine, the people who are receiving these error messages are frustrated and can do nothing but sit and wait for for Google to determine a problem and hopefully get their accounts up and running without the loss of any data.

Over at the Google Group, some of the users are a little frantic because they’ve got “eBay stuff that is going to bounce back” or one person is applying for jobs and is expecting replies to setup interviews. The problem is, not only is the account simply not working, but anyone who sends a message to a disabled account gets the message sent back to them. These users won’t know who tried to contact them, and what messages they missed. Other users are reporting that emails they sent in the time shortly before their accounts were disabled aren’t being received on the other end.  As one person said “this is completely unacceptable” and I have to agree.

The Gmail Help Center isn’t of much help to these users either. Under the “account disabled” section, it explains that “In most cases, Gmail accounts are disabled because of a perceived violation of Gmail Terms of Use.  Google reserves the right to suspend a Gmail account or the entire Google Account if Gmail Terms of Use are violated.  Google also has the right to terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.” When users find no help in the help center, some of tried to contact Google over the phone, but without luck.

It appears the current batch of accounts that were disabled fall under that last line where Google explains they can do this for any reason and without notice because I’m extremely doubtful that hundreds of people violated the Gmail terms of use. The first person reported a problem on December 5th which means we’re going on two days without a fix. That seems like a long time for Google to not publicly address the situation and let users know what’s going on.

Wasn’t it about this time last year that Gmail was making emails disappear? It sure was! Looking back at all of the other Gmail Outages that have caused frustration, I think we can answer the question of why Gmail is still in beta…

Source: Mashable

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Never mind keeping track of how many gold medals Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Monaco rack up during the Winter Olympics; the real nerds are watching to see exactly how many tweets are being pushed out per minute from a smattering of cities around the world. CASA’s Tweet-O-Meter has been running on a webpage for awhile now, but frankly, the novelty tends to wear quickly. These, however, are far more tempting to the retinas. What you’re looking at above are a few analog Tweet-O-Meters, which do exactly what you think they do: showcase the amount of tweets that are leaving New York, London and Paris at any given time by moving a needle within a conventional gauge. Head on past the break for a video, and be sure to express your reaction on your favorite up-and-coming social networking site.

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It takes a country as obsessed with food and as innovative in retail as Japan to make even cheap ready-to-eat noodles seem both the everyman’s meal as well as a famous brand.

Seven Eleven convenience stores are now offering the Atsumori Tsuken noodles, supervised by well-known Shinagawa restaurant Rokurinsha. You get to experience famously delicious food at a cheap price and without having to go further than your nearest conbini.

We also like how the packaging, rather than using yet another ubiquitous celebrity or even a good-looking model, has opted for down-to-earth image of a delivery man (the restaurant’s chef, in fact), emphasizing how this brand is being made accessible for everyone. It is appealing even to the construction worker consumer base — Atsumori Tsukemen is real food for real people!

This set is also available only in Tokyo’s twenty-three wards, cleverly playing on another key Japanese retail theme — limited edition. Get your hands on Atsumori Tsukemen for 498 JPY ($5.5), a bargain when you consider that at the “real” Rokurinsha it can cost almost 1,000 JPY ($11).

Nokia may talk the talk, but LG walks the walk. A day after Intel and Nokia announced they were merging their Maemo and Moblin Linux platforms to become MeeGo, a presenter at LG’s press breakfast today confirmed that the LG GW990, the first phone based on Intel’s Moorestown platform, will “transition” to MeeGo.

The presenter’s English was extremely limited, so it was hard to get more details. But the GW990 currently runs on Moblin, so it makes sense that it would become one of the first MeeGo phones.

Whether it’s actually first depends on several things, like whether Nokia transitions their N900 Maemo device over to MeeGo, and what all the mysterious other gadgets that Intel and Nokia were promising turn out to be. The GW990 is scheduled to come out in Korea during the second half of this year, but LG has no plans to bring it to the US.