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• Verizon: LTE services "returning to normal"

  By Brad Reed | 22 December, 2011 06:30

  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") .

• Skype blames buggy Windows software, swamped servers for outage

  By Gregg Keizer | 29 December, 2010 18:59

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

• Navitaire outage strands Virgin Blue passengers

  By Renai LeMay | 27 September, 2010 08:52

  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 hit by outage

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 09 June, 2010 04:57

  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 suffers global collapse

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 March, 2010 06:54

  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.

• RIM's future strong despite outages and outraged users

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 March, 2010 08:47

  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.

• Bing goes down for a half hour

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 05 December, 2009 02:42

  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 Blogger service suffers widespread outage

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 October, 2009 07:23

  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.

• Facebook deals with missing accounts, 150,000 angry users

  By Sharon Gaudin | 14 October, 2009 06:41

  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.

• Gmail Outages Could Turn Off Enterprises

  By Sharon Gaudin and Dan Nystedt | 08 September, 2009 05:17

  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.

• Google gets Gmail back on its feet after outage

  By Sharon Gaudin | 03 September, 2009 07:34

  After a nearly two-hour outage, Google Inc. is getting its Gmail e-mail service back up and running this evening.

• With recent outages, big data service providers take hits

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 18 August, 2009 13:22

  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.

• Google Suffers Widespread Outage: Quick Fix Promised

  By JR Raphael | 15 May, 2009 05:24

  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.

• Google blames outage on system error and online traffic jam

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 May, 2009 06:02

  Google Inc. is blaming this morning's Google Apps service outage on a system error that caused a major traffic jam.

• Google suffers major failure

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 May, 2009 03:35

  The Internet has been abuzz about widespread trouble with Google Inc.'s Google Apps service this morning.