outages
Mobile

RIM Responds To Global BlackBerrypocalypse

You might have noticed BlackBerry service has collapsed for a lot of people around the entire planet. Two full days later, RIM’s decided to say something about it: “We’re working on it.” Great!

Mobile

Microsoft Tempting Blackberry And iOS Users With Free Windows Phone Handsets

RIM and Apple are having a bad day and it’s only getting worse. Not only are their servers still misbehaving, their competition is giving away free phones to users who are upset with these service disruptions.

Mobile

BlackBerry Picked The Wrong Day To Die

There’s no such thing as a good time for RIM to leave half its customers without messaging or internet. But the problem’s been getting worse, not better — on one day that Apple makes its strongest case for total dominance.

Mobile

RIM: Our BBM Core Switch Failed. Then Our Backup Failed.

BlackBerry maker RIM has released a statement on the ongoing BlackBerry Messenger service failures, saying that pretty much everything broke at once. And there’s now a big backlog of sexts to process.

October 12, 2011
Mobile

BlackBerry Service Is Dead Around The World. Again.

History’s repeated itself in record time, with hapless RIM’s messaging, email and web services all collapsing in a wheezing heap of death across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Reuters reports. The problem? Same as yesterday: a crashed European server.

October 11, 2011
Mobile

BlackBerry Service Dies For Millions Around The World

If you’re RIM, the worst way to endear yourself with customers is to screw up their service around the world. Unfortunately, they’ve done just that, nuking BBM, email and web access throughout Europe, Africa and Asia.

August 19, 2011
Online

Downed Server Trashes 70,000 US Federal Job Applications

With unemployment at 9.1 per cent in the US, many are turning to (and relying on) the US government to help them out with jobs. This is great! Except when the federal jobs server goes down, erasing the hopes of 70,000 people. Oops.

June 3, 2011
Software

iOS And Mac App Store Outages Could Be iCloud Related

Reports of outages in the iOS and Mac App Stores have been occurring all day, leading some to speculate that adjustments for iCloud integration are in place. [MacRumors]

May 26, 2011
Software

I Hope Microsoft Got The Extended Warranty

Skype is down, Skype is down! Well, for some people anyway. While the service outage isn’t widespread enough to be a pandemic (working fine over here), enough users are reporting/complaining about it via Twitter to indicate a widespread whoops.

April 29, 2011
Mobile

Verizon LTE Back In Action

Watch out, trees! Those 4G lightning bolts are about to start striking again, as Verizon’s 4G network is back up after some downtime yesterday. Welcome back, buddy! Porn on the train! Hulu on my roof! Torrents on a boat! [Verizon]

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