After Outage, Google Apps Are Back Online

Google Apps users were taking to Twitter Wednesday morning to report issues with the popular cloud-based email and productivity suiteUPDATE: About 9:30 a.m. ET, Gmail and other Google Apps appeared to be back online.

Because this how I wanted to start my day. Gmail/Google Apps is down. Can't log in via IMAP, POP or web. Ugh#gmail #googleapps

— Kelly D (@bugdog) April 17, 2013

Google Apps Admin Console Down: admin.google.com Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563949

— Hacker News (@HNTweets) April 17, 2013

Google's consumer-facing e-mail system, Gmail, is still up and working well, but for the thousands of businesses that rely on Google apps for mail, calendaring, document creation and more, not having access to Google's cloud system is a serious problem. Below is the message some see when they try to login. Read more...