Tag: OUTAGE

Reaserch in Motion (RIM) just can't seem to catch a break. Just five short days after the BlackBerry Internet Service went down for several hours, North and South American users found themselves again without e-mail. This time, the outage lasted for nearly eight hours and, according to some reports, even caused problems for some European and Asian customers. In a statement e-mailed to us, RIM ...

Well, it looks like our friends at RIM are having a bit of trouble again, as its BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) suffered a second outage in as many months. BlackBerry owners across North America were swearing at their devices this morning as many e-mails were delayed or failed to send entirely thanks to the failure. RIM issued a statement that it had isolated the issue and its technicians were ...

The Sidekick data outage has passed the one-week mark and is quickly closing in on two. What was supposed to be a day or two of inconvenience for customers has turned into an epic public relations disaster for T-Mobile, Microsoft, Danger, and the very concept of cloud computing. Since the outage began last Friday, many users are still without access to personal data stored on Danger and ...

You may have missed it, but if you were one of the unlucky people caught in the Google outage yesterday, it may have seemed like the world was ending. At about 7:48 a.m. Pacific time yesterday morning, a glitch of an unspecified nature caused some traffic for Google services (including search, Gmail, and News) to be needlessly rerouted through Asia. The mistake caused slow downs and service ...

Barbara Walters, we're mad at you! You've killed our favorite micro-blogging/social networking service. Either that, or it was completely coincidental that your discussion of Twitter on 'The View' this morning immediately preceded a major outage of the service. But we're not buying it, Walters! According to Tweetscan, a site that tracks and indexes activity on Twitter, some of the last ...

Gmail users worldwide suffered the agony of a service outage that lasted for about two-and-a-half hours, starting at 4:30 am EST today. Google's blog reports that both consumer and business accounts were affected, no doubt severely disrupting many in Europe, where the business day was just beginning. According to Google, users in the UK and US who have enabled Gmail Lab's 'Offline' feature had ...

Earlier this week, the popular BlackBerry service for smart phones went offline. The outage was short, fixed within a few hours, but for those who remember the painful outages last year, it was an unfortunate reminder that perhaps things aren't entirely well at RIM, the company behind the BlackBerry. The company has now reported that the problem was due to a bogus software update pushed to phones ...

According to reports, Research In Motion's Blackberry devices suffered a wide-scale outage that began this afternoon around 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, according to reports from carrier AT&T. The outage affected all carriers and not just AT&T. The problem has reportedly been fixed, although Verizon indicates it may take some time for it to catch up with delivery of backlogged email ...

If you were having trouble receiving e-mail on your BlackBerry this past weekend, you weren't alone. On Friday, users began reporting that messages were being received very late or not at all. For some, the problem had resolved itself by late Friday night, though for many the slowdown persisted through much of the weekend. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, or RIM, has blamed the outage on a ...