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Yahoo outages frustrate some users

June 21, 2006 Intermittent e-mail and instant-messaging outages over Tuesday and Wednesday leave some consumers out in the cold. TAGS: outage, Yahoo! Inc., IM, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Craigslist suffers third outage in a week

June 13, 2006 Online classified site is inaccessible for about an hour and company is unsure of cause. TAGS: Craigslist, outage, e-mail

MySpace feels the heat

July 24, 2006 California power outage throws the social-networking site for a loop. Can it improve its reliability? TAGS: outage, MySpace, data center, California, Los Angeles, Yahoo! Inc., backup, server, Google Inc.

MySpace returns after power outage

July 24, 2006 Sweltering temperatures in California knock out the site's servers, leaving fans in the dark for nearly 12 hours. TAGS: MySpace, outage, California, Los Angeles, server

The new Salesforce approach to outages

March 3, 2006 Stung by bad publicity over service outages, the on-demand CRM company hopes to show it's doing a good job. TAGS: Salesforce.com Inc., outage, Europe, U.S., minute, server

BlackBerry outage: RIM a victim of its own success?

April 18, 2007 The very nature of RIM's network could have led to the outage that caused millions of BlackBerry users to go without e-mails for hours. TAGS: Research In Motion Ltd., outage, BlackBerry E-Mail, subscriber, RIM BlackBerry, data center, nature, Asia, e-mail server, e-mail, Europe, server

Skype's 'unprecedented' outage

August 20, 2007 The VoIP company offers a mea culpa for its disrupted service last week, which it says stemmed from a routine Windows update. TAGS: Skype, outage, VoIP, VoIP service, IP telephony, telephony, P2P, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows

Mobile-phone outage hits N.Y. borough

August 10, 2006 Water damage in Verizon facility knocks out cell phone service for some Sprint Nextel customers in Queens. TAGS: outage, Sprint Nextel, leak, Nextel Communications Inc., Verizon Communications, facility, New York, New York City, spokeswoman, mobile phone

Some BlackBerry users frustrated by outages

March 15, 2006 Software upgrade to RIM's servers causes outages for some users on networks of several wireless carriers. TAGS: Research In Motion Ltd., software upgrade, outage, RIM BlackBerry, representative, NTP, T-Mobile, Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel, server, Verizon Communications

.Mac users mock Apple slogan during outage

July 31, 2006 Downtime on Apple Computer's .Mac service has some clients taking aim at the company's "It just works" campaign. TAGS: .Mac, outage, Apple iWeb, Apple Computer, Apple iLife, e-mail

RIM offers explanation for massive outage

April 20, 2007 After two days of silence, Research In Motion finally provides some details of what wiped out its BlackBerry e-mail service. TAGS: Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry E-Mail, failover, outage, subscriber, RIM BlackBerry, incident, cache, backup system, data center, North America, cause, e-mail, database, backup

Lycos back online after outage

January 2, 2007 ISP's system malfunction to blame, search engine says; customers were without access to e-mail and other services. TAGS: Savvis Communications, Lycos Inc., Content Delivery Network, content delivery, Web portal, outage, search engine, portal, Internet Service Provider, e-mail

Mobile's GSMA showcase: Android and more

February 14, 2008 The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona spotlights mobile broadband gear, services, software, and strategies. Read CNET's full coverage. Photos: New phones at Mobile World Congress Google Android ... TAGS: Mobile World Congress, Google Android, outage, Barcelona, handset, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, CEO, Nokia Corp., broadband, Google Inc., photograph

'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says

June 16, 2004 Attackers built a "botnet" of unknowing home PCs to bring down Google and other sites, the company says. TAGS: Akamai Technologies Inc., distributed denial of service, bot, zombie, outage, attack, home PC, attacker, server, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Computer, Google Inc., security, PC, Microsoft Corp.
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