All the stories tagged with outage
iMessage And FaceTime Down For A While
04/09/2013, The world ground to a halt for some moments earlier today, and I am referring to those who use Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime services, as both services were actually disrupted, so it is a good thing that they are up [...]
CloudFlare Is Down, Taking Thousands Of Websites With It
03/03/2013, Web accelerator CloudFlare is having network-wide DNS issues, and it looks like all sites that use it as a front-end proxy are down as a result. The company has confirmed the outage with a Tweet that says: “we’re experencing a [...]
Twitter Outage Being Worked On
01/31/2013, For a social networking tool such as Twitter to experience an outage can be said to be an outrage for users, but to have the outage happen twice in a single month has been deemed as unacceptable to many. Apparently, [...]
Facebook Outage
01/28/2013, Well, earlier this morning we talked about how PayPal experienced an outage, and here we are with word that Facebook, the world’s most popular social network, too, has experienced an outage. Thing is, when you type in the “www” prefix, [...]
Netflix Experiences Outage On New Year’s Eve [Update]
12/31/2012, Where were you during the great Netflix outage of Christmas 2012? If you were home attempting to enjoy your holiday break by attempting to access Netflix, then you know it was impossible to access its Instant Streaming service as it [...]
It’s not just you: Sprint cell phone service is down in Washington and Oregon
10/08/2012, When cell phone service goes down, the whole world goes haywire. Today, Sprint’s often-spotty service went totally down in the Pacific Northwest, and as a result Sprint subscribers in Portland and Seattle can’t make calls. That’s not all, though. Alaska [...]
Apple iMessage outage happened earlier this morning
09/17/2012, Apple’s instant messaging service, iMessage, was said to have experienced outage issues worldwide instead of it being a local occurrence, and it certainly contradicts the “All Clear” condition on its iCloud status website. The service outage is not a long [...]
Verizon explains recent outages
12/30/2011, Verizon claims to have the largest and most advanced 4G LTE wireless network in the world, so a lot of customers were upset when the network went down again this week. Today, to justify the network’s downtime, Verizon issued a [...]
Verizon 4G LTE data outage pays another visit
12/28/2011, Verizon Wireless customers must be getting fed up with the outages on the company’s 3G and 4G networks – and it seems that the most recent outage has happened today, affecting the 4G LTE and 3G networks, respectively. Twitterati initially [...]
Time Warner Cable users experience outage
11/07/2011, Most of us with a decent Internet connection these days might have gotten far too comfortable in our respective comfort zones – that an outage, even a short one, might actually irk us to no end. Well, I guess the [...]
RIM releases first free “apology” app: DriveSafe.ly 2.0 Pro
10/19/2011, Earlier this week, RIM announced that it will be offering over $100 worth of free apps to its BlackBerry customers for last week’s global service outage? Well, RIM has just put the first premium app up for grabs. From developers [...]
RIM: BlackBerry services restored globally
10/13/2011, After being down for the past few days, it looks like RIM has finally repaired its BlackBerry services. The company announced in a conference call earlier this morning that all BlackBerry services have been restored globally. RIM will now be [...]
RIM Founder/CEO apologizes for BlackBerry outage [Video]
10/13/2011, The ongoing BlackBerry outage seems to be the main topic of interest over the past few days (just in time for the release of the iPhone 4S?) and a lot of people are unhappy. RIM is clearly aware of the [...]