Recently, the iPad was approved for use by Executive Jet pilots after conducting a trial involving 10 aircraft, 55 pilots, and 250 flights. The result was the FAA allowing Exectutive Jet to use the iPad and aviation-specific app by Jeppeson. Now Delta is requesting to equip their pilots as well. We’ve written about iPad accessories more »

Gmail service crashed today, causing outages across the globe, including users in the United Kingdom, Australia, India and other parts of Europe. Web based Gmail was affected and users still had access to their email server through mobile applications. Gmail went offline at approximately 10:30 GMT this morning. Gmail is usually problem free, so bloggers were quick to note that the service was unavailable. Also, most users in the United States did not suffer the same outages as those experienced in other parts of the world.