As Skype sputters back to life today after its first major outage in three years, it’s helpful to look at how critical the communications tool has become for users and companies, who increasingly rely on it for phone, IM and video chat service. Read More »
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Skype went down this morning, plunging millions of users into VoIP and IM darkness. Then Twitter was out briefly before coming back online. The incidents may be unrelated, but they highlight our growing reliance on web communications tools to keep in touch. Read More »
Facebook suffered one of its worst outages in years today, an event that lasted for several hours and took out all the Facebook-powered “like” buttons on sites across the web. This caused a stream of jokes on Twitter, and we’ve collected some of the best here. Read More »
Facebook has been inaccessible to many — if not all — users for the last 30 minutes. This is incredibly bad timing for the company, which is trying to pitch itself this week as a central part of the web’s infrastructure. Read More »
It may have only lasted 100 minutes, but the Great Gmail Outage of last week generated discussion that endured for days. It started with panic attacks on Twitter and took some bizarre turns, such as sparking talk of lawsuits. But in the end, the… Read More »
Updated with comment from Cisco: Question: What do PayPal and Cisco have in common? Answer: Both suffered widespread outages over the past 24 hours, proving yet again that despite all the progress that’s been made, Internet infrastructure remains prone to human error and other random problems. Earlier… Read More »
Updated with Limelight response: A source of mine just alerted me that Limelight Networks is suffering some kind of outage in Asia and Europe. Their U.S. network is working just fine, and perhaps that’s why I have not heard anything. It is hard to tell from… Read More »
Updated: Yahoo, one of the largest web sites on the planet, is being plagued by series of problems related to Domain Name System (DNS). A test using Gomez’s testing service shows error messages in certain cities such as Chicago. Others are experiencing slower… Read More »
