Verizon says subscribers should expect its LTE services to come back online soon after a nationwide outage knocked them offline this morning (See: "Verizon Wireless outage outraging customers") .

Promises to look into auto-updating its Windows client software to prevent another blackout

Virgin Blue has blamed Accenture subsidiary, Navitaire, for a disastrous hardware failure that took down its reservations systems and resulted in lengthy queues at Australian airports as the airline was forced to check in passengers manually.

Twitter is recovering from an unspecified technical problem that affected the microblogging service's main site and its APIs (application programming interfaces) for about one hour late Tuesday morning.

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Web sites went down for hours on Wednesday in a global outage caused by a domino effect of technical problems.

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.

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.

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.