Google's Gmail service restored

Gmail, Google's Web-based e-mail service, is back up and running after the site suffered yet another outage that blocked users from accessing their contact lists, reports Channel Web.

Altogether, the Google outage, which lasted for about two hours, blocked users from accessing Gmail accounts, as well as their contact lists. In addition, chat, auto-complete and the contact manager did not properly function, Google warned.

"We're working to fix the problem, and in the meantime, you should be able to continue to read and send mail as normal," Google said on its Help pages for Google's Webmail utility.

Oracle has unveiled new capabilities for small to medium enterprises (SME) through its Oracle Accelerate programme, including new Accelerate Solutions, Oracle Business Accelerators, financing options and deployment methods, states eWeek.

Begun three years ago, the Oracle Accelerate initiative aims to port the company's enterprise solutions to the IT infrastructure of SME organisations, giving the latter access to powerful applications such as business intelligence and transportation management.

The new Oracle Accelerate solutions include business intelligence, enterprise performance management and CRM on demand. They join Oracle Applications and Business Accelerators, which the company had already been combining through the Accelerate initiative into targeted and deployable packages for solving SME businesses' problems.

Apple has rejected Tesco's first iPhone application to be submitted for inclusion in the supplier's App Store, says Computing.co.uk.

Tesco.com head of research and development (R&D) Nick Lansley revealed on his blog last month that the retailer was developing software to be a “simple application that can do the basics of grocery shopping well”.

But Apple has now told Lansley it has rejected the initial app due to a technical issue. “The Tesco.com R&D 'Store Finder' application, which allows iPhone users to locate their nearest Tesco branch, had a problem if the user denied it access to iPhone's location service so it could not obtain the current latitude and longitude of the phone,” Lansley wrote in his latest blog update.