Evening tech news: Users of Google's soon-to-be launched Gmail service say they on Internet services company Akamai disrupted access to large Web sites including those run by Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft for up to 2 hours early this morning.
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It's time that Akamai had some competition to prevent this sort of thing. Perhaps Akamai needs more features to keep their existing customers. Competition would lead Akamai to do just that... hopefully.
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Oho...
Well, that explains the Apple.com outages right around the time of the iTMS Europe announcement. Brutal timing, but at least that shows it wasn't Apple's fault, or a lack of server capacity to handle the rush of European traffic.