Stories tagged "outages"

Gmail appears to be functioning on private domains and personal accounts again. For those still feeling the hurt from the Gmail outage, the HTML version of Gmail appears to work better for some. You may have to type in the full URL manually,

As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional downtime.

The company breaks a prolonged silence to offer a discourse on its tech problems. Let's call this chapter 'Scalability and its discontents.'

Twitter is currently down for me right now (4:04pm EST). Of course, I switched my focus to FriendFeed to see what's going on within my networks. However,

Amazing, Twitter has been half down all weekend long. Dave Winer and others have been writing about it. The problems have been covered on TechMeme and other places where one looks for interesting tech news. Is this FriendFeed's chance?

Last week's spectacular BlackBerry outage has given Vodafone a great idea to lure customers: on Monday it announced a deal with The Neverfail Group to prevent further BlackBerry outages.

Well it finally happened. Hackers managed to attack electrical utilities outside the U.S. today causing outages in multiple cities.

We have gathered 13 of the most notable internet-related outages and incidents of 2007. Why 13? Though you usually can’t blame downtime on bad luck, we thought it was an appropriate number for a collection like this.

Highways were hazardous for holiday travelers Sunday and thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity in the Midwest as a storm blustered through the region with heavy snow and howling wind.

Downed trees blocked roads and power outages were widespread Tuesday across much of the Northwest, where residents prepared for a massive cleanup effort after being battered by back-to-back storms.