Skype outage delays MobileTechRoundup podcast- millions protest in the streets

Motr_coverYou’ve no doubt heard by now that Skype has experienced a major global meltdown that has seen their service down for many for over a day now.  I just checked and it’s still down for me this morning.  A lot of businesses now depend on Skype for their communications and this outage is quite serious for those folks.  Even more critical, the outage prevented Matt, Kevin and I from recording the MobileTechRoundup podcast last night so the next episode will be delayed.  Now that’s hitting us where we live.  Here’s the current update from the Skype folks:

Hello all,

Here’s the latest on the sign-on problem.We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this processmay continue throughout the day. An encouraging number of users can nowuse Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods yet, but weare in better shape now than we were yesterday.

Finally,we’d like to dispel a couple of theories that we are still hearing.Neither Wednesday’s planned maintenance of our web-based paymentservices nor any form of attack was related to the current sign-onissues in any way.

We’ll update you again as soon as we can. Thanks for hanging tight.

Please see our Heartbeat blog for ongoing updates.

         

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