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Microsoft has confirmed an issue with its email service that prevented users from accessing their accounts under normal conditions. On October 8th, 2009, the Redmond company was hard at work to identify the source of a Windows Live Hotmail blackout, and to provide a resolve to end users, ensuring that their accounts ... |
9 October 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Gmail was hit by yet another problem last week, rather soon after a major issue affected the service, causing massive disruptions and outages a month ago. The problem affected quite a few users, preventing them from accessing their contacts or event the entire service at one point. Now Google has come out with an exp... |
29 September 2009
05:27 GMT |
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No web service is perfect or safe from problems, despite the best teams and the best efforts. Still, some services are more important than others and, depending on their size and how crucial they are to their users, issues affecting them can generate a lot more unwanted attention than others. Such is the case with Gm... |
24 September 2009
12:27 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to roll out a server upgrade for Office Live Small Business this month, a move that will impact all users and businesses that are leveraging the service. For the upcoming two Sundays starting with next week, the Redmond-based company has planned site downtime in order to accommodate the server u... |
3 September 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Google has some of the most reliable services online, but even those aren't perfect and, when they fail, everybody knows. A Gmail outage that lasted about 100 minutes was the talk of the Internet yesterday, affecting millions of users. Google engineers managed to get the service back up eventually and everything... |
2 September 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Just two days after Google launched its new indexing and search engine infrastructure, dubbed Caffeine, in testing to curious individuals the site is now down until at least later today. Google Engineer Matt Cutts made the announcement via the latest fashion in corporate communication, Twitter, blaming upgrades to a ... |
13 August 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Wikipedia, one of the largest and most visited sites in the world, is currently unavailable for most users, with the site displaying an error message. As you'd expect, Twitter is alright, with many predicting doom and gloom, but very little actual information, the real-time web at its finest. In fact, the downti... |
31 July 2009
08:58 GMT |
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A fire at the Seattle Fisher Plaza data center caused outages for a number of websites including Bing Travel, Microsoft's travel planning site, and Authorize.net, an important payment gateway service provider processing credit card and e-check data for online vendors.“Last night at approximately 11:10 pm, ... |
4 July 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that Windows Live Hotmail suffered a temporary outage, but indicated that the issue was resolved. And indeed at this point in time, the service is up and running with no problems whatsoever. Various users have started reporting not being able to sign in to their accounts, and the fa... |
10 April 2009
05:29 GMT |
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The past weekend Microsoft's Cloud operating system suffered an extensive outage lasting approximately 22 hours. Microsoft fessed up to the malfunction, which lasted from Friday until Saturday, and which had the potential of affecting all Windows Azure Community Technology Preview (CTP) participants. In fact, so... |
18 March 2009
06:31 GMT |
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On March 12, 2009, Microsoft confirmed that Windows Live Hotmail was experiencing what the company referred to as a temporary outage. The software giant however failed to reveal any additional information; still, users were getting “server too busy” error messages, and reported that they were unable to co... |
13 March 2009
08:04 GMT |
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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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