Tag: SHUTDOWN

The Egyptian government restored the country's Internet services today, as the army urged protesters to end demonstrations and "bring stability back to the country." Hassan Kabbani, chief executive of mobile service provider MobiNil, confirmed that sites previously blocked were rendered accessible around noon, including the Central Bank of Egypt's website and social networks like Facebook. The ...

As civil unrest continues to spread and intensify across Egypt, authorities within the country have taken a drastic and apparently unprecedented step: they've shut down the entire Internet. The blackout began at about 12:30 a.m. local time, when four of the Egypt's major service providers abruptly shut down. Calling the nationwide outage "an action unprecedented in Internet history," the ...

A Staten Island man has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that the social network shut down his account without explanation. The plaintiff, Mustafa Fteja, reportedly discovered that his account had been disabled back in September after he was repeatedly unable to log in. The 30-year old says that he contacted Facebook for an explanation, but only received automated responses. ...

Share Calm down, world. Contrary to the rumors that may have sprouted up in your news feed, Facebook will not shut down on March 15th, and Mark Zuckerberg is not suffering a nervous breakdown of Shakespearean proportions. As Sophos explains, the rumor appears to have originated from a site called Weekly World News -- where, it should be noted, you can also read about Mike Tyson's pigeon ...

If you spend your day sitting at a desk at a computer, when do you boot up your machine? If you do it when you get in, do you count that time spent booting toward your overall workday? Or, do you come in ahead of time to let it boot up? We're guessing there aren't many people getting out of bed 15 minutes earlier just to make sure their computers are logged in and warmed up precisely at 9:00 am ...