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UUNet Customers Cut Off By Internet Outage
News An Internet outage leaving some of business ISP UUNet's customers without connectivity on Tuesday has been blamed on the London Internet Exchange (LINX). It is currently believed that this was due to a problem within the London Internet Exchange...
[June 5, 2001, 13:08]
Internet Outage: Tough Luck!
News Jonathan Robinson, managing director of UK ISP NetBenefit, says customers have no recourse for the outage and no guarantees of service from ISPs. According to Teleglobe, which was responsible for the outage, the re-routing was not possible due to...
[February 24, 1999, 10:40]
BT: No Danger Of Mass Internet Outage In UK
News The UK is unlikely ever to suffer the kind of internet service disruption recently experienced in the Middle East and India on Wednesday, according to BT. FLAG, or the Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe, is one of the main undersea internet cables...
[January 31, 2008, 16:18]
US Report: Blackout A Blip On Net Radar
News While the outage snarled city traffic and caused problems for many local Internet-based businesses, for the national Net, the outage was but a hiccup. Still, while the company was not affected by the outage, some of its Bay Area customers were.
[December 9, 1998, 9:46]
Dabs.com's Cable Cut
News Dabs attributed the outage to a "physical link breakage". Previous causes of broken cables have ranged from Arson to dropped spanners and Shark bites -- although none of these are thought to have be implicated in the Dabs outage.
[October 25, 2002, 16:44]
Skype Outage Bug Fixed
News According to a statement released by Skype on Monday, the outage — which affected the majority of Skype's user base — came about on Thursday with "a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe".
[August 20, 2007, 12:22]
Record Industry Site Spends Five Days Cut Off
News The Internet performance measurement company believes that the root of the outage is a variant of the MyDoom computer worm. The current outage now exceeds the RIAA site's four-day outage in July 2002, which was attributed to a DDoS," or distributed...
[March 23, 2004, 8:25]
Attack Downs Yahoo, Google And Microsoft
News A domain name outage on Tuesday morning that left many popular Web sites, including those of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Apple, temporarily inaccessible was the result of an Internet attack, according to Web infrastructure company Akamai.
[June 16, 2004, 8:35]
MS Software-activation Error Hurts XP
News Microsoft's software activation service is coming in for a new round of fire in the wake of a system outage that prevented the company issuing activation codes to its Australian customers over the weekend.
[June 10, 2003, 9:50]
Microsoft's Site Goes Down
News The outage occurred as system administrators and security experts were bracing for a potentially large Internet attack. However, the outage temporarily prevented some customers from reaching Microsoft's security patches.
[August 4, 2003, 8:50]
Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban Amid Speculation
News The ban had the side effect of knocking YouTube off the internet for two hours on Sunday said YouTube owner Google, which blamed the outage on traffic being routed via "erroneous protocols". However, there are different reports as to the cause of...
[February 27, 2008, 12:55]
Can Small Businesses Rely On VoIP?
News Hampton, who runs what is essentially a one-woman web-development company, said she was glad she had her mobile phone handy when she was unable to make or receive calls from clients for 48 hours during last week's Skype outage.
[August 24, 2007, 9:40]
AboveNet Vows To Nab Cybervandals
News Our customers were certainly affected by the outage," said Henry Purdy, director of product development for the bid management e-commerce site. During the outage, she estimates that 50 to 60 quotes were lost.
[April 27, 2000, 12:11]
Microsoft Still Missing IM Connections
News The outage helped rival services to at least temporarily gain customers in the highly competitive instant messaging market. Last summer a weeklong outage gripped Microsoft's Messenger service, putting as many as 10 million people offline.
[February 20, 2002, 6:31]
Hotmail Users Out In The Cold Again
News Ironically, a Microsoft spokesman could not confirm whether Wednesday's outage that blocked access to many of the company's Web sites, such as MSN.com and Expedia, also brought down Hotmail. Although few Hotmail users were outwardly irate at the...
[January 25, 2001, 14:56]
Can AOL Overcome Its Corporate Credibility Gap?
News Following the outage, consumer complaints became more frequent as AOL continued its rapid growth. A 19-hour AOL outage was front-page fodder in newspapers across the United States. Since that network outage in 1996, AOL has spent more than $350 m...
[November 27, 1998, 9:06]
Yahoo! Glitch Trips Up E-mail
News The outage, noted in a message on the Yahoo! An outage on the group e-mail service affects a broad audience. Osako said the outage is unrelated to the combination of the services. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy...
[March 5, 2002, 10:06]
Outage Disrupts Microsoft Services
News The outage affected some customers who attempted to sign on to a personalized service linked to Passport, Microsoft's central gateway that millions of consumers use to access multiple Web sites or services.
[January 3, 2003, 8:56]
Taking The VoIP Plunge
News You can ameliorate this somewhat by plugging your VoIP equipment into an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), so that you'll have some time to be able to make calls after the electrical outage begins. And more and more small businesses and home...
[August 24, 2006, 15:45]
Jesse Berst: Internet Health Check -- Good And Bad News
News Which leads to sudden failures, like the UUNET outage experienced here at AnchorDesk yesterday. Two-thirds of U.S.homes will have Internet access by 2003 (Yankee Group) Prognosis: Growth spurt will continue for the next few years at least.
[June 25, 1999, 10:09]
