Watching ‘The Social Network', you can see just how much Facebook's founders value ‘up time'. They are almost maniac about it. In the real world, the globe's second biggest site does a great job of staying up and running, but something strange seems to have hit the interwibble this evening. …

Yesterday KitGuru reported that Google claimed China were blocking their citizens from accessing Gmail services. Today the Chinese Foreign Ministry have spoken out, denying the accusations. China's Foreign Ministry said today that it could not accept accusations from Google Inc that the government was making it difficult for Gmail users …

On Monday a small portion of Gmail users woke up to find that all their emails had vanished. Google have since said that the problems were due to a bad software patch which caused some accounts to reset to first time status. A Google spokesperson said that the service would …