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- Electrical outages make you appreciate mobile technology
- I awoke this morning to the crackle and thunderous crash of a 100-year-old oak tree snapping and falling in my next-door neighbor's yard iPhone picture above. We're lucky that no people or property were damaged, but the tree fell on a power line knocking out service for my...
- Tags: Mobile, Apple MacBook, Battery, Outage, Engineering, Modems, Notebooks, RSS, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 44ò0of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives
- 44ò0of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives...LOL, that's pretty pathetic if you really think about it. Then again I go without internet for long periods of time as a norm. Cell phone outage? No worries about that either... I don't own one of those leashes either.I guess people...
- Tags: Manufacturing, outage, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- 44% of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives
- Most internet users age 45 or older say content online serves less their needs and interests than those of younger persons, according to a Burst Media. 67.7% of internet users age 45 or older say their daily routine would be disrupted if their online access was taken away for one...
- Tags: Internet User, Segment, Outage, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Twitter outages and Forrester predictions
- Â In my last post about Forrester's predictions, I suggested that Enterprise 2.0 won't pan out the way they suggest. On one prediction, I think they're spot on but for different reasons: Consumer services like Blogger, Facebook, Netvibes, and Twitter are aimed squarely at consumers, and they typically offer free...
- Tags: Outage, Twitter, Forrester Research Inc., Manufacturing, Web 2.0, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?
- Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?FRUSTRATEDI have been trying to login to my hotmail account since Tuesday morning... it is now FRIDAY and still no luck! I am getting even more frustrated everytime i read these news articles and press releases from microsoft saying everything is...
- Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, Manufacturing, Windows Live outage problem, outage problem, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Windows, outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?
- After a full day of downtime for many Windows Live users on February 26 -- an outage the reasons for which Microsoft has declined to explain, but claimed was resolved on February 26 -- some users still seem to have been having ongoing service-access problems. According to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Manufacturing, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live ID
- Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI directed my mom to mail.live.com.I solved her problem very quickly.RE: Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI got this message all day long at the MS Office Download Center:"The Office Update Catalog cannot be displayed...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Windows Live outage, Live-ID, outage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live ID
- A widespread, international outage on February 26 affecting users of a number of Microsoft's Windows Live services affected those not already logged into Microsoft's Web services via Live ID, according to Microsoft. But exactly why so many of its services were inaccessible for most of Tuesday is still not something...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users
- Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger usersRE: Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger usersI am unable to use both messenger and the web interface for hotmail, but I can access Hotmail just fine through the Outlook Connector.Yup. Some can get on, ohters can't.My users have been complaining all morning. UGH!TechNet...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, outage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users
- Windows Live users are reporting on February 26 that they are unable to access Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, two of Microsoft's key consumer Internet services. Microsoft's MSN.com portal also is extremely slow to load. A number of users on Microsoft's Channel...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Windows Live User, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Remember this, BlackBerry: when it comes to customer communications, it's NOT all about the carriers
- Once again, there were scattered BlackBerry service outages yesterday. This time, it was maintenance on the BlackBerry Internet Service side of the business. The one that forwards your other email account messages to your BlackBerry. Unfortunately, yesterday proved that when it comes to letting customers know what...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Carrier, Handhelds, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Numerous BlackBerry BIS service outages reported
- Numerous posters on BlackBerry board Pinstack are reporting some BlackBerry BIS service outages. "I love my bb, but this is getting ridiculous," one poster writes. I beg to agree. Update: Reports are coming in pointing to issues with "scheduled maintenance,"...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Handhelds, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- GrandCentral+suffers+major+outage
- GrandCentral+suffers+major+outageWhat say you Donnieboy????Must have been one of those Yahooguys DonnieBoy is going on about Google snaping up. ROFLRE: GrandCentral suffers major outagelooks like their SSL cert also expired on Friday the 15th.never heard of it until now. But when BG said "call person not phone"never heard of GrandCentral...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Google Inc., outage, GrandCentral, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-02-16
- Amazon explains its S3 outage
- Amazon has issued a statement that adds a little more clarity to its Web services outage on Friday. Here's Amazon's explanation of the S3 outage, which wreaked havoc on startups and other enterprises relying on Amazon's cloud. Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Health Care, Amazon.com Inc., Authentication Service, Outage, Manufacturing, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- GrandCentral suffers major outage
- GrandCentral is an awesome service that Google acquired last year. It lets you get a brand new phone number that simply links all your other phone numbers together. Not only that, it gives you a load of features that let you do anything from record incoming calls to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Problem, Outage, GrandCentral, Telecom & Utilities, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?Legal requirements[i]Why on earth Amazon couldn’t have invested in a similar system to keep customers informed is beyond me.[/i]Amazon can't legally deploy that until the Jeff gets the patent paperwork filed.Cash flow, of course"What I can't understand is, why do providers only understand this...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Amazon.com Inc., outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?
- Sooner or later, it was inevitable that a server outage would expose Amazon's lack of preparedness for failure. It's ironic that this should have happened within hours of my posting an item here arguing that SaaS vendors should all rely on cloud providers for their infrastructure. Those that do rely...
- Tags: Web, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Manufacturing, Channel Management, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Corporate governance, RAID, outage, Amazon.com Inc., BAD BAD new, Amazon S3 web service, Amazon S3 web services down, BAD BAD, AWS, white board, board, backup, Web service
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or die
- SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or dieWhat's the process for creating an SLA when you use cloud infrastructure?Phil - this is really interesting on many levels, but one of the things I am wondering is how does a SaaS application provider put together an SLA for clients when they...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, SaaS CRM, SaaS company, outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
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