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Why Your Apps Froze Up Yesterday: A Google Cloud Outage Explained

If your favorite app suddenly stopped working on Thursday, you weren’t alone—and no, it wasn’t your phone or your signal. A major outage tied to Google Cloud caused a cascade of issues across several widely used apps and services, hitting users across the country just after lunchtime. According to PhoneArena, the root of the problem was a networking issue on Google’s cloud infrastructure. And because … [read full article]

T-Mobile Dropping MobileLife Album Support, Switching Users To Google Drive

MobileLife Albums users on T-Mobile should take note as the carrier prepares to shut down the service as of June 30th. All won’t be lost however as T-Mobile has partnered with Google to offer a new home for all your MobileLife content. T-Mobile states in their FAQ that rather than go “head-to-head” against world-class competition and their “compelling photo storage services,” they decided its … [read full article]

Google’s Newly Announced Note Taking Service “Keep” Is Live, Again

After a teaser appearance last week, Google Keep, Mountain View’s future/present note-taking app is now live. “With Keep you can quickly jot ideas down when you think of them and even include checklists and photos to keep track of what’s important to you. Your notes are safely stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices so you can always have them … [read full article]