The great GMail machine had a hiccup the other day and was down for a period of time. Many users were without their “FREE, BETA VERSION” of GMail until Google got the problem worked out.

Thing is the FREE BETA VERSION part of this issue hasn’t dawned on them.

Hey! It’s a free service folks! Quit whining about defecting to Yahoo or Hotmail for crying out loud. Anyway, once Microsoft gets their hands on Yahoo, it might be facing the same or similar problems so there ya go. Not a pretty alternative after all, is it?

I wonder about people sometimes that will complain loud and long over something they get free. I mean, if you want something that’s free then ya gotta understand that sometimes….SOMETIMES, it’s gonna have some issues. So lambasting Google over it is kinda bordering on the doofus side a bit. At least they got it worked out pretty darn quick which goes to say a lot about their reputation.

Now, if you’re paying for some service and it goes down the crapper for a period of time, I would agree that it would be time to contact the provider to register a complaint. But, to advocate others to escape to Yahoo or Hotmail over a free email service provided by Google just because of a hiccup? Come on, man!

Oh! You didn’t really have your business’s email account(s) on a free beta service did you? Uh-oh.

Seeing as I am apparently not getting to write as often as I’d like to lately, I’ve added a news feed from my Google Reader for the latest things related to technology. A link will take you to either the story itself or my shared feeds depending on which link you click. The one at the bottom will take you to the shared feeds page itself while the story link will of course, take you to the story itself.

Google Reader allows you to easily keep track of your favorite websites and see all the updates in one convenient location. This works out especially well for me as it allows me to skim over them looking for the ones that particularly interest me the most. You can get yours at Google’s site by just signing up. It’s simple and easy to use.

Now this part of my post is for you spammers out there that just can’t seem to understand that your garbage just isn’t going to get posted on my blog. Try as you might…it just ain’t happening. Askimet is a wonderful thing and it works flawlessly. So you might as well give it up because you aren’t getting your garbage published here. Why not try for a TV ad. There’s plenty of airspace getting mucked up with similar ads anyway.

Google finally confirmed their interest in the mobile phone market a few days ago with the admission of work being done on free software to power them. Google has brought together around 34 companies under the Open Handset Alliance to provide service for Google’s Android mobile phone software.

Confirming it’s long rumored foray into the mobile market, Google said it was developing the free cell phone software package so that it could more easily peddle ads and services to those of us not in front of a computer.

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