Some users angered by service outages but remain faithful
A data service outage affecting some BlackBerry users nationally this week seems to have left them angry but not deeply concerned about the future of BlackBerry's parent, Research in Motion Ltd.
Microsoft blames the outage on a configuration change gone wrong
A day after trumpeting various enhancements to Bing, including the beta version of an improved mapping service, Microsoft had to apologise for a widespread outage that kept the search engine offline for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening.
Most users were affected by the crash, which lasted about 90 minutes
Google's popular Blogger blog-publishing service crashed early on Friday and remained unavailable to most users for about 90 minutes, the type of broad system outage that Google has been trying to eradicate from its Web-hosted applications.
Users frustrated with accounts missing for more than a week with little explanation
After a database problem knocked out the accounts of about 150,000 Facebook users for more than a week, the social networking site said today that most are now back up and running.
Enterprises could avoid Google offerings if outages continue, analysts claim
The latest widespread outage of Google's popular Gmail application could dissuade some IT managers from letting workers use the online e-mail system for corporate business, analysts say.
Engineer says they're still investigating what caused the nearly two-hour crash
After a nearly two-hour outage, Google Inc. is getting its Gmail e-mail service back up and running this evening.
Are recession-induced cutbacks killing reliability?
When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered an outage Aug. 3, one of the companies affected was Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company in Churubusco, Ind. Sailrite lost its customer payment services for six hours.
After stirring up a Twitter storm, exec lists cause of widespread Google Apps failure
Google Inc. is blaming this morning's Google Apps service outage on a system error that caused a major traffic jam.
Google recovers from a widespread outage affecting many of its online services.
Google appears to have recovered from a widespread outage affecting many of its online services Thursday. Most Google properties were inaccessible to users across the U.S. and worldwide from about 10:45 a.m. until about 12:20 p.m. EDT. People from coast-to-coast and as far as China, Australia, and France were all impacted.
Various Google Apps start kicking back in after widespread outage this morning
The Internet has been abuzz about widespread trouble with Google Inc.'s Google Apps service this morning.
Blockage lasts more than nine hours for some subscribers
Comcast.net e-mail went down for potentially millions of subscribers the better part of the day Saturday as users and observers got running commentary on the service provider's efforts to manage the situation via Twitter updates from Frank Eliason, the company's director of Digital Care.
Reports say services down for days
The Commonwealth Bank's online NetBank portal appears to be offline, with some reports suggesting the site has been only intermittently available over the last four days.
Users go without e-mail access for two and a half hours
After a two-and-a-half-hour outage Tuesday evening, Google says its free Gmail service is back up and running.
Amazon.com's product search engine appeared to malfunction on Tuesday evening.
Amazon.com's product search engine appeared to malfunction early Tuesday, with searches for well-known books and CDs producing no results.
