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- Failed router component leads to two-hour T-Mobile BlackBerry email shutdown
- "Stick together?"Not Monday afternoon.Failure of a component in a router led to slightly less than two hours of lost e-mail service for BlackBerry customers on T-Mobile USA's network west of the Mississippi River yesterday.T-Mobile spokesperson Peter Dobrow said the router failure affected service from around 4 p.m. to 5:45...
- Tags: Outages
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages
- In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie thats him says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...
- Tags: Balsillie, failover, Jim, News, Outages, RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Before the world knew: insider's diary of BlackBerry service shutdown
- For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks ago, the Zenprise BlackBerry service monitoring system in place at the County of Alameda (Cal.) data center in the 1.5 million-populaton county seat of Oakland "gave us some indications connectivity was intermittent," senior server engineer Paul Hinsberg told me...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, Case Histories
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- EXCLUSIVE: Major BlackBerry user knew of email glitches AT LEAST two hours before outage
- Ive been told by a third party that a Senior Server engineer at a large County in the San Francisco Bay area iwas notified days prior to the outage of intermittent BlackBerry email activity. Source then advises me that this engineer was then flagged at exactly 2:58 p.m. PT the...
- Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- BlackBerry: database problem caused the crash
- Colleague Marguerite Reardon reports that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has finally issued a statement identifying the cause of the 14-hour service disruption earlier this week.In a statement, RIM has "determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, noncritical system routine that was designed to...
- Tags: Outages, News
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Outage post-mortem: BlackBerry AND their carriers BADLY fumble outage update info
- I spent a good bit of yesterday calling carriers to obtain updates on the 14-hour BlackBerry email service outage.There were some bright points, but all in all I was not pleased with the information flow and presentation.First, let us discuss how each major U.S.-based BlackBerry carrier conveyed this data when...
- Tags: News, Uncategorized, Outages
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Here's what probably caused the BlackBerry outage
- Colleague Marguerite Reardon has talked to several networking administrators about the BlackBerry outage.Shes just posted an analysis of how this could have happened, and what technology systems were at fault.The blame seems to be on issues at one of BlackBerrys Network Operations Centers. Probably the one in Waterloo, co-located...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, News
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- BlackBerry: cause of outage "under investigation"
- Pinstacker MWPatterson received this note earlier today from BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion:The following information is current as of 09:00 on April 18, 2007. All times are EDT. On April 17, 2007, at approximately 20:15 EDT, the BlackBerry Network Operations Center NOC started investigating monitoring alerts in regards...
- Tags: Outages, News, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Reports: BlackBerry service coming back up just now
- Hayden James, who runs Pinstack, says:"Just contacted RIM moments ago they informed us that service has been restored for most BlackBerry users."They also said that they are closely monitoring systems in order to maintain normal service levels," Hayden adds.
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- EXCLUSIVE: I've just called all the major BlackBerry carriers- here's what they say about outage
- Cingular-AT&T- National outage, working on the problem, many service tickets open.. SprintNextel- At this time, nationwide data outage, no estimated time to fix. Advises against troubleshooting your BlackBerry device.Verizon- There is a current nationwide BlackBerry outage, BlackBerry customers unable to send or receive messages. BlackBerry team is working on...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
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- L.A. votes to "Go Google"; pressure shifts to Google and the cloud
- Glad I don't live in L.A. Can you imagine the riots that will go on when Google has another one of their outages?yupLoverock, as always, is absolutely right. Unlike Google, Outlook and Exchange never, ever crash.Look, it's very simple. Microsoft is always best. Not matter what the application, Microsoft software...
- Tags: E-mail, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Yahoo Mail outages plague some users
- yahoo mailI can't get to my email account. There are problems. It keeps telling me the link is broken. What can i do?Have had no problemsAnd I know that Yahoo will not be saving my emails for 18 months and use the contact to market to me like gmail does.
- Tags: E-mail, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Mail
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Yahoo Mail outages plague some users
- Scattered reports say the world's most widely used e-mail service was suffering from scattered outages on Monday morning. Yahoo Mail users reported problems Monday morning, with the service inaccessible for some and spotty for others. TechCrunch noticed a Twitter spike in reports of problems with Yahoo...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Mail, E-mail Service, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Yahoo, email, outage, Tom Krazil CNET News
- News items 2009-10-26
- NPR and Livio partner for Wi-Fi radio device
- Hearst has said it is developing an e-reader, and now another news organization is simply creating its own tech gadget. Livio and National Public Radio NPR have partnered for the first Internet radio device, aptly named the NPR Radio. Featuring exclusive NPR...
- Tags: NPR, Radio, Wi-Fi, National Public Radio Inc., Livio, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Survey: After Sidekick Failure Would You Buy Cloud Services?
- NoNo I would not buy from them again, I don't need a scare of all my info being deleted.http://gizmoelectronics.blogspot.com/http://www.stophighcosts.comI will never trust the cloud.I will use the cloud but not if it means I have to forgo a local copy and not if the data is private. I like Office...
- Tags: Marketing research, mushroom cloud, SideKick, Buy Cloud Services, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data
- I lost my contacts for a few days. Give me ONE HUNRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!Says with pinky raised to mouth.RE: Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' dataI don't feel sorry for anyone who owns a Sidekick and lost their data. It is moronic to purchase a device that...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Google's third quarter: Expectations are high
- Google's third quarter is expected to be strong and analysts are already busy raising targets for the fourth quarter. The search giant reports earnings Thursday and Wall Street is expecting earnings of $5.42 a share on revenue of $4.24 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. However, most analysts...
- Tags: Paid Search, Revenue, Google Inc., Analyst, Search, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Internet Download Manager 5.18 build 4 (Windows)
- Internet Download Manager is a tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times, and for resuming, scheduling, and organizing downloads. The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages. The program features a full-fledged site grabber that downloads files that are specified with...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Site, Tonec, Internet Download Manager, Corporate Communications, Internet, Web Browsers, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-15
- Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disaster
- LOL! And some said you were covering this up.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=70257&messageID=1348275&tag=content;col1RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterMy money goes to TMobile, not Microsoft. This should fall 100% on the shoulders of TMobile!RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterWell who-ever is respossible for this stupid act(upgrade without backups? wtf...)...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Storage, Microsoft Corp., Sidekick/Danger disaster, Sidekick/Danger, Microsoft Needs, Hitachi Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
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