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Yesterday's widespread Skype outage continues today, according to an official update posted early this morning to Skype's company blog. As of the time the blog post was written, 5 million users were reportedly back online, but Skype says this is only 30% of what they would expect at that time of day.

However, the number is gradually increasing as Skype repairs the problem, which the company is now saying is a software issue affecting its "supernodes." But what does that mean?

Gmail has been limping along for days, with scores of people reporting down time, super slow responsiveness and other troubles. With no communication from Google about the problem - what are users to think? Perhaps that we should put more of our lives in the hands of the Gmail team!

This afternoon the GMail team announced the addition of a new feature in the Gmail Labs - a Task Manager, or to do list. It's quite an elegant little feature, when it and the rest of GMail work. Below we've got a two minute video tour that shows how the feature works, in case Gmail is down for you and you can't see it for yourself!