Gmail back up after extended outage

Gmail seemed to be down for many users across the globe on Monday but was up soon after. The outage lasted approximately four minutes, but in that time people took to social networking sites like Twitter to vent out their frustrations.

Browser wars flare again, this time for phones and tablets

When Google took a video camera to Times Square in 2009 and asked passers-by what a browser is, most of the answers were hilariously incorrect, from "a search engine" to "broadband" to "Yahoo."

But even if consumers are not so sure what Web browsers are (programs like Internet Explorer and Firefox), they have become a crucial business for tech companies like Google and Microsoft.

GMail goes down for thousands of users, and is back up!

Gmail seemed to be down for many users across the globe on Monday but was up soon after. The outage lasted approximately four minutes, but in that time people took to social networking sites like Twitter to vent out their frustrations.