Sorry Amazon, you didn’t get to be the first to release a sub-$200 Android-powered eReader because Kobo has just beaten you by way of releasing its Vox Social eReader. According to Kobo, the Vox eReader happens to be the world’s first social eReader. As such it will allow you to start conversations with other readers more »

According to their official blog, Google says this morning’s outage was caused by a “system error” that rerouted some traffic through Asia, causing a traffic jam. The bottleneck resulted in GMail, Blogger, and Google itself loading slowly and in some cases being totally unavailable. Anyone on Twitter knows it caused quite an uproar. Google has apologized for the error and promises that everything is back to normal now.

This is far from the first outage Google’s had lately and it leads to a very good question. What are some alternatives to Google’s services? Here’s a look at a few.