Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, may we have your attention. All is right in the world this morning, and you may all commence firing off breakup emails, work communication, chain letters, and whatever else you might use your Gmail account(s) for. Google's popular email service is back up and running after suffering a severe outage that potentially affected up to 35 million Gmail users yesterday.

Verizon Wireless appears to be suffering from more problems on its data network all across the U.S. as customers from coast to coast complain of both 3G and 4G outages. This is the second time in less than a month that Verizon Wireless has had trouble with its data network, with no specific reason given for the last time wireless customers had to contend with spotty connectivity.

From a semi-conspiracy theorist standpoint, it seems pretty obvious that Netflix wants to phase out its DVD business entirely by  weaning all of its subscribers over to its streaming-only plan. If Netflix truly wants to go all-in with its streaming service -- and it should be noted that company CEO Reed Hastings has never been bashful about Netflix being primarily a streaming service going forward -- it will have to overcome certain challenges, one of those being the persistent outages that so vex its subscribers, like the one that took place over the weekend.