outages
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Wikipedia Outage Was Caused By Cut Cables
Wikipedia went down for a couple of hours yesterday. The reason? Someone managed to sever the fibre cables connecting the site’s servers in Florida.
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Telstra Lost The Internet, Not Sure Why
Telstra is Australia’s biggest internet service provider (ISP), so when its connection stops working, lots of people notice. An as yet unidentified problem with its network knocked out most customers for at least half an hour today and impacted other providers. Story developing: we’ve got further comment from Telstra and iiNet — and confirmation of…
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RIM Offers Free Apps And Games To Appease Users Over Outage
BlackBerry maker RIM has announced it’s giving away a stack of apps and games to its users over the next few months, as a combined apology and peace offering to those who suffered during last week’s “BlackBerry Jam” network failures.
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RIM Still Sorry, Still Has No Idea What Happened
That BlackBerry outage that disconnected millions of people from their digital worlds? RIM held a call today to reiterate how very sorry they are. And to reassure its valued customers that it has absolutely no clue why BlackBerry imploded. Nice.