Sabotage is suspected in a widespread telecom outage in Santa Clara, Calif., which is affecting land lines, cell phones, 911 services and some web sites.
Over the past week, there have been a series of electronic attacks on major Internet web hosts and domain service providers, disrupting tens of thousands of web sites.
Outage-driven chatter on social media sites is a lot like Internet traffic spikes: it can occur quickly, and overwhelm the available resources. The challenge: support staff are not like cloud computing clusters.
Who fixes undersea cables when they break? A fascinating look at the specialized work of submarine operators who find and repair telecommunications cables.
Microsoft's Hotmail service has been unavailable today. Microsoft has acknowledged the problems, and says it's working to resolve the issue.
Media Temple will issue $100,000 in service credits to 3,000 of customers affected by a major outage of its (gs) Grid-Service hosting service. Some customers were offline for as long as 38 hours.
The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all of its user data was irretrievably lost in the Jan. 30 database crash that knocked the service offline.