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Apple Web service outages during iPhone launch

As the Apple iPhone ver 2 launches today, Apple had some outage issues with their website.Late yesterday/last night, Apple users could not access their accounts. Additionally, the TUAW reported today (6:20am Friday) that The Apple Store US is down,...

Posted on July 11, 2008 9:39 AM

Amazon Down Due to Pricing Error or Metal Gear Bundle?

Several bloggers were abuzz with the news of Amazon's website being down today. One site claims "Some customers reported that traffic caused the site to slow down considerably". The reason? "THOUSANDS of customers were in shopping heaven today when a...

Posted on June 6, 2008 3:19 PM

Scheduled Blackberry RIM Outage

Word on the street is that there will be a 4-5 hour outage of all RIM servers tonight. The outage is expected to start at 11pm PST for upgrades to the BIS servers. While I commend RIM for upgrading their...

Posted on March 28, 2008 2:36 PM

Movable Type Outage

So I get Six Apart's Movable Type newsletter which talks about how they want the Movable Type community to help make Movable Type faster. After all, Movable Type is open source now, so what better opportunity than to ask the...

Posted on March 26, 2008 9:38 AM

AT&T CallVantage Major Outage...

I have received an unconfirmed report of a major outage for AT&T CallVantage, which is AT&T's VoIP broadband service. I was emailed the following: "At 2:00 pm the voice system is now stating that they have a major outage." Gee,...

Posted on March 20, 2008 4:10 PM

Wikipedia Outage?

I was researching some info on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) and then the website died. Murphy's Law. I tried both over a T3 line and an EVDO connection and both pages timed out. I've never seen Wipipedia have an outage. Anyone else...

Posted on January 9, 2008 1:51 PM

Vonage Outage

Pal Dan Conner & big Vonage aficionado, who runs the Vonage Forums tipped me off to a major Vonage outage. Boy, Skype outages recently and now this. Hope this is just a minor outage. VoIP doesn't need a black eye...

Posted on December 15, 2007 5:21 PM

MyBlogLog outage - civrf.yahoo.com lookup failed

It must be outage week, since I not only discovered Skype had a brief outage but now MyBlogLog is making my blog load unbearably sloooooooooow. My blog uses the MyBlogLog code to display fellow MyBlogLog users thumbnail pictures on my...

Posted on November 13, 2007 11:03 AM

Skype Outage Explained

Just received this email from a Skype PR representative explaining the outage I discovered over the weekend. They say it was minor, and I will say it was a short outage. But there were some peeved users. I read a...

Posted on November 13, 2007 10:11 AM

Skype WiFi phones Outage

BREAKING! Something has happened with the Skype service that prevents all brands of WiFi and dual-mode (WiFi & PSTN) phones from signing into Skype. This problem seems to have started sometime on Saturday and continued until late Sunday (possibly as...

Posted on November 12, 2007 9:38 AM

Technorati outage

Bah! I was just checking out Technorati at the end of the work day (5:23pm) to see if there was anything interesting going on news wise - and their website just went down. Technorati has been pretty reliable over the...

Posted on September 27, 2007 5:24 PM

Skype Explains the Perfect Storm

So we now know that Windows Update (as I accurately theorized) was the culprit behind the Skype outage. So many people has been asking me why this latest Microsoft Update and series of patches was any different than previous...

Posted on August 21, 2007 11:13 AM

Skype Outage - Lessons Learned

I've covered the Skype outage to death, so I'm going to pass the ball to Rich for his perspective. Rich Tehrani just posted an excellent overview of the Skype outage and the lessons learned. He discusses backup strategies and that...

Posted on August 20, 2007 5:09 PM

Skype Outage caused by Windows Update

I'm never one to say I told you so, but it appears I was right about Windows Update (Patch Tuesday) causing the massive Skype outage. Many users were skeptical of this theory, as seen in the comments of my blog...

Posted on August 20, 2007 8:12 AM

Saturday Update on Skype Outage

Just received this email from Skype PR representative. Thought I'd share an excerpt of it. The gist is that Skype is now back to normal and on Monday they will finally provide a more detailed explanation. I'm kind of rooting...

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:53 PM

Latest on the Skype Outage

Skype's Villu Arak responded to all the rumors as to why the Skype network went down. It's not due to any Microsoft patch(es) or any hacker attacks. Just some boring reason about an algorithm deficiency. Still pretty vague if you...

Posted on August 16, 2007 5:39 PM

Skype Outage

Skype is experiencing a major outage. My fellow TMC co-workers noticed it late Wednesday when they couldn't IM fellow co-workers. TMC's Dave Rodrqiguez told me that he went home for the day, signed into Skype from home and was bombarded...

Posted on August 16, 2007 7:18 AM

More bad news for Vonage - An Outage

On the heels of the Verizon vs. Vonage patent lawsuit, and warning it could file for bankruptcy, Vonage customers today are experiencing outages across the country. This isn't the first Vonage outage, nor will it be the last - unless...

Posted on April 19, 2007 12:50 PM

Hotmail Outage

Hotmail apparently is experiencing a major outage. The message I got at 9:44am ET was: Server too busy. We are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time. Try one of the...

Posted on November 16, 2006 9:46 AM

Digg outage

Digg appears to be down this morning. Hopefully, this isn't a major outage, since Digg.com is a great news resource. I can't get my morning fix of Digg-ing. Maybe all the rumors about Digg.com being acquired - possibly by News...

Posted on October 27, 2006 10:08 AM

Weblogs Outage

I noticed Engadget was down, so I then checked other Weblogs blogs, including Ted Wallingford's VoIP Weblog and it too was having an outage. I then check BBHub, Russell Shaw's BlackBerry blog, and it too was down. Wow, I've NEVER...

Posted on February 28, 2006 1:15 PM

WordPress outage?

Is there a major WordPress outage? I was on Scobleizer's blog when all of a sudden his web pages started timing out. Since he is on a hosted WordPress website (didn't he switch a few months ago to Wordpress? ;)...

Posted on February 22, 2006 10:02 AM

Xbox Live Outage

Looks like Xbox Live is going offline for one whole day in preparation for the launch of the XBox 360 and to undergo some improvements. One whole day of no Xbox Live gaming? What will the Xbox Live addicts do?...

Posted on October 22, 2005 6:17 PM

AT&T CallVantage Outage

I meant to blog the AT&T CallVantage outage this morning, but wanted to confirm some info with one of my sources first. Apparently, this past Thursday (1/13/2005), AT&T CallVantage experienced an outage in at least Virginia and parts of New...

Posted on January 17, 2005 4:00 PM

Amazon Outage

Amazon is having an outage. It appears to be down all day long. Robert Hashemian, our webmaster and columnist within Internet Telephony Magazine brought it to my attention Even many of the international Amazon sites are down. I could only...

Posted on November 8, 2004 4:23 PM