INTERNET OUTAGES
NovemberFirms 'underestimating' web-based threat - 2008/11/20Firms are underestimating the dangers of web-based threats, despite a quarter of them having experienced one ... OctoberCanadian airline suffers website outage - 2008/10/22Canadian national air carrier Air Canada suffered an outage in its reservation network on Monday, it has ... Cahoot suffers major downtime following powercut - 2008/10/21Cahoot, the online banking arm of Santander-owned Abbey, suffered a major server outage last week which left ... SeptemberServer outage exposes flaws in 'cloud computing' - 2008/09/25Flaws have been exposed in one of the newest ways for online business to store and access data, it has ... Consumers demand that websites perform - 2008/09/24Consumers faced with poorly-performing websites are happy to switch to a competitor, new research has ... Half of firms to freeze IT budgets in 2009 - 2008/09/2250 per cent of firms will maintain levels of IT spending in 2009, new research has indicated. ... Myanmar's conflict with dissidents reaches cyberspace - 2008/09/19The ruling military junta in Myanmar has made a number of damaging attacks on dissident websites, according ... LSE still unclear on system outage - 2008/09/16The London Stock Exchange (LSE) remains unclear about what exactly caused the outage that shut the system ... BT break-in leads to internet outage - 2008/09/12A break-in at one of BT's central London telephone exchanges caused a massive loss of broadband connectivity ... Internet outage leads to two-day email loss - 2008/09/11Failures in data-storage disks resulted in a two-day email loss for subscribers to regional internet service ... Internet downtime minimal post-Gustav - 2008/09/05The cost of internet downtime due to Hurricane Gustav has thankfully been mild compared to Katrina which hit ... AugustGmail reliability questioned - 2008/08/22Experts are beginning to doubt whether Google's email service Gmail is reliable enough to meet their ... The corporate cost of internet downtime - 2008/08/21Well-known high street retailers who have lost significant online sales revenue are also at risk of losing ... Website monitoring services to the rescue! - 2008/08/07With the mushrooming use of the internet showing no sign of relenting worldwide, organisations' websites ... Apple concedes mistakes after outage - 2008/08/06The launch of Apple's MobileMe should not have coincided with that of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 Software, ... JulyAmazon offers credit following outage - 2008/07/22Amazon Web Services customers affected by the recent seven-hour outage of its Simple Storage Service (S3) are ... Times Online a market leader in downtime - 2008/07/18The results of a new survey measuring the uptime of the world's top news sites were revealed ... 11th hour outage for lastminute.com - 2008/07/17During what is traditionally a very busy week for lastminute.com, business was interrupted for 11 hours when ... Cable and Wireless Watford site burgled - 2008/07/11Sainsbury's and Ordnance Survey websites went dark at around 01:00 (GMT) today (Friday, July 11th) as a ... Sainsbury's web site down twice in a month - 2008/07/07High street giant, Sainsbury's has experienced more problems with its online operation as more than an hour ... JuneFacebook resolves website outage - 2008/06/30Facebook has announced it has resolved a glitch which left millions of its users unable to access the address ... BT accepts outage responsibility - 2008/06/24BT has accepted responsibility for an internet outage in the Shetland Islands which deprived residents of ... Outage hits Google App Engine - 2008/06/20Attention was drawn to the disadvantages of cloud-computing services when Google's App Engine suffered an ... Firefox down due to increased traffic - 2008/06/18The newly released version of Firefox has been plagued with access problems. ... LINX suffers second outage - 2008/06/05The London Internet Exchange (LINX) suffered a second outage last week, with a line card problem being blamed ... Mac outage could be due to re-branding - 2008/06/04An outage experienced on Apple's .Mac mail could have been due to the expected re-branding of the email ... Website outage caused by 'cracker attacks' - 2008/06/02Attacks which caused an outage experienced on the homepage of US internet service provider (ISP) Comcast did ... MayWebsite glitch costs Paypal - 2008/05/28Online payment system Paypal has been left reeling after being hit by a website outage lasting near-on two ... Cut optic line causes US outage - 2008/05/27An internet outage suffered across the Midwest region of the United States last week was caused by ... US firms gather at STO conference - 2008/05/20American companies will listen to experts' views on the future of the shutdowns, turnarounds and outages ... US security agency stumped by internet outage - 2008/05/16The website of the US National Security Agency (NSA) is currently feeling the effects of an internet outage, ... Canadians given tax extension after website overload - 2008/05/15An overload on the Canada Revenue Agency's website has led to taxpayers being given an extension to the ... US ISP prepares for hurricane season - 2008/05/09A major US internet service provider has lifted the lid on its plans to cope with the Atlantic hurricane ... AprilBlogging sites hit in network outage - 2008/04/30Users of numerous blog sites were left out in the cold last week as the Sports Blog Nation network ...
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