Skype Voice Chat Service Goes Down for an Entire Day
Yesterday afternoon, reports began to surface regarding widespread log-in problems with Skype, the popular voice chat and digital phone service. By "widespread log-in problems," we mean "nobody in the world could log in." Throughout the evening, Skype engineers worked through the problems and made frequent posts on their status blog. The blogging engineers took every possible opportunity to point out that there was no hack or security threat going on. The problem was blamed on "a deficiency in an algorithm within Skype networking software," according to the blog. The deficiency has apparently been fixed.But don't expect to be able to log in instantly today: It seems the company's servers are filtering through reams of backlogged data and are slowly catching up. If all goes well, you should be able to get back to your free online video and voice chatting by the end of the day. Until then, you might just have to pick up a regular phone to get in touch with people, assuming you still have a regular phone.
From 'The New York Times'
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