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London ambulance 999 system suffers outage

...The London Ambulance Service's 999 call system suffered a technical fault on Wednesday that resulted in having to revert back to handling... Read more

10 June, 2011 by Ben Woods

Apple: iPhone data used to build Wi-Fi hotspot database

...the iOS devices was excessive, and said it was down to a technical fault. It also blamed a "bug" for the fact that such data... Read more

27 April, 2011 by David Meyer

BT broadband up again after northern outage

...telco said on Monday that the disruption, which was caused by a technical fault "at an exchange in the Edinburgh area on Friday night", was... Read more

1 November, 2010

BT fixes broadband glitch

The telco has solved a technical glitch that meant broadband didn't work properly at several local exchanges that had only just been added to BT's ADSL network Read more

23 December, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Airport hit by IT glitch

A technical fault forced the check-in systems at Gatwick offline Read more

14 November, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic

...part of the cable near the US coast had already suffered a technical fault earlier this month, which meant there was no built-in redundancy... Read more

26 November, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

ISPs left in the dark over ADSL crash

...will take several days before precise details about the nature of the technical fault are available. See the Broadband News Section for the latest on... Read more

21 November, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Barclays in second security gaffe this week

...being compromised. The "clerical error" was uncovered Tuesday, just days after a technical fault with the bank's overhauled online service compromised the security of... Read more

2 August, 2000 by Will Knight

Photos: Cern's Big Bang particle accelerator explodes into the record books

...accelerator was shut down for a period in September 2008 after a technical fault damaged the machine. Photo credit: Cern Read more

31 March, 2010 by Nick Heath

How Cern's Big Bang physics lab is going virtual

...LHC was restarted in November after it was shut down by a technical fault in 2008, just nine days after it was first switched on... Read more

18 December, 2009 by Nick Heath

The best of reader comments: The best and worst call centre experiences

...Blacker, who went through lengthy negotiations with Dell customer services after a technical fault with a PC. Sure, it took time, a wiped C drive... Read more

11 April, 2003 by silicon.com staff
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20 May, 2012
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...the integrity of the Online Casino business to be maintained. Responsible for technical fault diagnostic and initial fault resolution of the core Online Casino environment... Read more

11 May, 2012
Technical Support Analyst-VMware-Windows-GAMING-C.Lon-£30K-£35K

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...the integrity of the Online Casino business to be maintained. Responsible for technical fault diagnostic and initial fault resolution of the core Online Casino environment... Read more

2 May, 2012

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Paul Smyth

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UnderINK

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