News tagged with service outage


Google's openness intensifies focus on e-mail woes

Technology / Internet

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Google Inc.'s recent pledge to be more open about periodic service outages appears to be drawing more attention to the breakdowns when they occur, even if it's a minor hiccup affecting a sliver of its users.





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PayPal outage frustrates merchants, consumers

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created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday.


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Google apologizes for Gmail outage

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google apologized Thursday for a Gmail outage which left some users of the free Web-based email service cut off for the second time in a month.


BlackBerry e-mail restored for some after outage (AP)

BlackBerry e-mail restored for some after outage

Technology / Software

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- BlackBerry e-mail service in North America was restored for some users Wednesday morning following its second outage in less than a week.


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Gmail knocked offline for 'majority' of users

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created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in a severe outage that the company said affected a "majority" of users.


T-Mobile says phone service outage resolved (Update)

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers.


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Google blames Gmail outage on server maintenance

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Internet giant Google has blamed server maintenance for a Gmail outage which left millions of users without the free Web-based email service for more than an hour and a half on Tuesday.


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Smart Grid Technology: Vulnerable To Hackers

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created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Smart Grids are digitally based electricity distribution and transmission systems and test have shown that a hacker can break into the system resulting in a massive blackout.


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Microsoft search engine Bing suffers brief outage

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing.


Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Web (AP)

Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Web

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created Aug 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia - but the collateral damage that left millions around the world ...


BlackBerry users dealing with e-mail outage

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- BlackBerry users in North America faced delays in receiving e-mail on their devices Thursday.



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