Tuesday's 40-minute outage at Salesforce.com, which left 900,000 subscribers offline, raises questions about the effectiveness of status dashboards.
A sign of the times: a surge in filings for unemployment benefits has apparently crashed online application systems in three states.
The blog hosting service Journalspace is shutting down after all its user data was lost.
France Telecom says that a key undersea communications cable has suffered a second failure, just as repairs were being completed at the site of a Dec. 19 cable cut.
The web sites of some HostDime customers were offline or being redirected to other sites after apparently unauthorized changes were made to DNS records.