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You're working late on your computer one night and all of a sudden the power goes off. All your unsaved work goes to waste and you start cursing the electricity company as you have to do everything all over again. Don't you wish you had a UPS? A UPS, or an uninterruptible power source, is an electronic devi... |
11 July 2008
09:09 GMT |
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Even if YouTube is a very popular service and it's owned by the Mountain View super search giant Google, this doesn't necessarily mean that it has no problems with its servers like many other services on the web. Such a problem occurred yesterday when users from all over the world got in panic after the You... |
5 May 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Microsoft is still completely mute on an outage that impacted all Windows Live services on February 26, 2008. Starting with Windows Live Messenger and ending with Windows Live Hotmail and even Xbox Live, Windows Live users had troubles signing in throughout the day due to an unspecified problem with global reverberat... |
27 February 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Well, Microsoft sure likes to keep its promises, when it comes to awarding customers with goodies for bearing with the lag of their Xbox Live service. They had initially announced a "free full arcade game" delivered to the fans, in order to state that the company really is sorry for the Live outage at Christmas time... |
22 January 2008
07:06 GMT |
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SomethingAwful.com, the comedy website hosting a huge amount of humorous content, went offline a few days ago, apparently because of some DNS problems. Nobody knew for sure what had happened there, so people started asking questions on the website's forum. No less than seven forum pages got full of users' q... |
4 January 2008
09:06 GMT |
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No less than 165,000 websites went offline on Saturday and some of them are still unavailable as their hosting company NaviSite planned a server migration in the same day. Although NaviSite informed the customers that their pages might be down for a while on Saturday, the entire operation was slowed down by some prob... |
9 November 2007
08:12 GMT |
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The Russian Business Network (also known as RBN) went offline yesterday but nobody knows an official reason for the outage. A post on the Trend Micro blog informs that the service became unavailable yesterday at 7 PM PST and at this time its IP addresses are still unreachable. The RBN has always been famous for the i... |
8 November 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Hulu was described as the potential YouTube killer since it comes with impressive content from NBC and other media partners, all of them joining forces for the defeat of the Google video sharing service. But sometimes, a simple unexpected thing is enough to change all your plans and instead of being a YouTube killer,... |
1 November 2007
06:33 GMT |
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It looks like Research in Motion (RIM) has got itself a great problem to handle, as its BlackBerry smartphones are driving them into a new outage. This is the second time when the company experiences problems and might prove to be a greater problem than initially thought.BlackBerry owners from New York and Washington... |
4 October 2007
09:11 GMT |
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Even if the Mountain View company today celebrates the 9th anniversary, it seems like it is affected by an impressive outage concerning many of the technologies powered by Google. There is no official statement at this time so it's only a rumor but Cameron Newland reports that Google's main page and some ad... |
27 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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The very popular blogging service Blogger was affected by a serious problem that caused the product to become unavailable for approximately one hour. The interesting fact is that the Mountain View company didn't announce the outage, so I guess everybody was surprised when the blogging technology became inaccessi... |
23 August 2007
03:43 GMT |
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