Hardware27.09.2008

Cloud computing has had its stumbles

After Apple’s MobileMe subscription-based online applications service launched in July it was vexed by bugs that needed fixing.

In the middle of August, Google’s free Web-based GMail was inaccessible for nearly four hours.

"It’s the price of doing everything on the Internet right now," said author Paul Bausch, co-founder of the Internet firm Blogger, which was bought by Google.

"Just like spam is the price of using email, they’re just things we have to put up with."

 

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