{"id":7143,"date":"2009-03-03T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-03T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:45:00","slug":"google-pays-for-gmail-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/7143-google-pays-for-gmail-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Google pays for Gmail outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc. is making amends for an e-mail outage by giving 15 days of free service to businesses, government agencies and other subscribers who pay for an expanded version of the product.<\/p>\n<p>The concession is meant to placate customers who were cut off from their e-mail accounts on Tuesday for as long as four hours. The outage began at 09:30 GMT, causing more inconvenience in Europe and Asia than in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Most people use the free version of Google&rsquo;s Gmail. The Mountain View-based company sells a more sophisticated version of Gmail as part of a software bundle that costs $50 annually per user.<\/p>\n<p>Google offered a 15-day credit to compensate for a less severe e-mail breakdown last August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=160618\"><strong>Gmail discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making amends for an e-mail outage by giving 15 days of free service to businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}