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MSN Messenger hit by virus, outage
News The spokesperson did not comment on whether there was a connection between the new virus and the outage. The spokesperson would not give further details about the problem, except to say that the Monday morning outage was due to "administrative...
[October 12, 2004, 9:30]
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]
BlackBerry outage: Was it inevitable?
News RIM's massive BlackBerry email outage this week highlights how vulnerable the company's network has become as it tries to keep up with demand for its popular service. RIM did not provide details of what caused the outage, which left millions of...
[April 19, 2007, 10:35]
Spam causes Virgin email outage
News The outage was probably caused by an attack on Tucows's OpenSRS email service, according to Virgin Media. The outage was remedied approximately 48 hours after it occurred, but Virgin Media customers were still being affected on Friday due the...
[October 13, 2008, 14:07]
Web Design Firm Eliminates Spam and Sustains E-Mail Service During Internet Outage
White Papers These services helped the firm virtually eliminate spam and viruses, slow inbox growth, restore the credibility of e-mail messages, and continue normal operations during a three-day Internet outage. Storm ID relies heavily on e-mail to support its...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Orange apologises for outage
Talkback This outage affected the area around Stansted Airport / M11 / Cambridge at least. I was hacking away at my Treo trying to get email !
[August 10, 2006, 14:46]
Orange silent on major broadband outage
News Broadband provider Orange is refusing to reveal the precise cause of a massive broadband outage that began on Monday. Over 100,000 Orange broadband customers were affected by the outage, which began at 4pm GMT on Monday, according to an Orange...
[October 18, 2006, 14:10]
Dell site outage during Christmas rush
News The outage, during which some customers could not access the site and others experienced slow download times, lasted several hours. The outage may have caused the company some financial damage, but determining how much could be tricky.
[December 12, 2002, 11:21]
How to survive a catastrophic outage
News Within the plan," explained Laezza, "we defined who the emergency management resources are within Con Ed Communication and what each of their roles and responsibilities are for responding to a crisis like the power outage.
[February 2, 2004, 10:50]
BlackBerry Outage - You Say System Upgrade, I Say Achilles Heel…
Blog BlackBerry Outage - You Say System Upgrade, I Say Achilles Heel… RIM offered a public apology for what is the second outage in less than a year and later suggested the outage was due to an issue arising from a system upgrade.
[February 14, 2008, 16:18]
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]
MSN Messenger outage enters sixth day
News The MSN Messenger outage spilled over into a sixth day on Sunday, with many users of the free service complaining of inaccessible accounts, despite Microsoft's claims most had been restored. We are in the process of restoring the backup data for...
[July 9, 2001, 10:57]
VoIP outage affects thousands
News Precise details of the outage weren't disclosed, but BT did explain that an engineer patched the platform that underpins Broadband Voice on Tuesday evening after many users suffered problems. BT has around 22,000 subscribers for Broadband Voice...
[January 27, 2006, 16:25]
Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News Amazon.com appears to be blaming its complicated infrastructure for the outage that left it inaccessible to many US visitors for more than an hour and a half on Friday. The site [is] back up," the company said in statement following the outage.
[June 9, 2008, 15:41]
Maintenance error causes two-hour Gmail outage
News Google's nearly two-hour Gmail outage yesterday was the result of a miscalculation regarding the capacity of its system, the company said late on Tuesday. Thus, right up front, I'd like to apologize to all of you — today's outage was a Big Deal...
[September 2, 2009, 9:19]
US Report: Hackers to blame for AOL outage?
News Only a small percentage of users are on the "bring your own access" plan, she said, adding that it was "hard to tell how many people were affected" by the outage. Mail from outside the AOL system to AOL users was apparently re-routed to other...
[October 19, 1998, 12:01]
London Stock Exchange recovers after outage
News The London Stock Exchange is back to normal after an outage yesterday that ceased trading for the longest period in eight years. The exchange said the outage did not mean its electronic trading system was in any way vulnerable to increased trading...
[September 9, 2008, 16:58]
Twitter suffers outage following fresh attack
News We're working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more. Twitter's servers were down on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service.
[August 12, 2009, 15:30]
Outage points to depth of P2P arsenal
News The Morpheus outage has caused many of their users to look at LimeWire again," Gorton said in a statement. The sudden shutdown of the Morpheus network last week has file swappers trolling for new sources of free music -- and they're finding plenty...
[March 7, 2002, 9:11]
How big was Orange's outage?
Blog We're getting some conflicting reports here about a service outage that affected Orange customers on Wednesday evening. On the one hand, we have Modaco talking about a 4-hour-plus outage cutting off 1.5m customers.
[September 7, 2007, 9:51]
