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.
Sunday was a rough day for network connectivity, as a data center power outage slowed AT&T's mobile users, while Level 3 also had network issues.
Sunday was a rough day for network connectivity, as a data center power outage slowed AT&T's mobile users, while Level 3 also had network issues.
Here's a roundup of updates about Friday's failure of three undersea cables in the Mediterranean and its impact on connectivity.
hree undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea have failed within minutes of each one other in an incident that is eerily similar to a series of cable cuts in the region in early 2008.
Pingdom recaps the Internet's major downtime incidents during 2008.