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BlackBerry Service Dies for Millions Around the World
If you're RIM, the best way to endear yourself with customers of your lousy phones is to screw up their service around the world. So it's done just that, nuking BBM, email, and web access throughout...
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RIM: Our BBM Core Switch Failed. Then Our Back-Up Failed
BlackBerry maker RIM has released a statement on the ongoing BlackBerry Messenger service failures, saying that pretty much everything broke at once. And there's now a big backlog of sexy texts to...
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RIM Offers Free Apps & Games to Appease Users Over BBM Outages
BlackBerry maker RIM has announced it's giving away a stack of apps and games to its users over the next few months, as a combined apology and peace-offering to those who suffered during last week's...
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Dubai Police: BBM Outage Made Roads “Safer”
Police in the sweltering state of Dubai recorded cheerily low numbers of traffic accidents last week -- and are saying it's all down to the BlackBerry service crash.
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Royal Mail Website Buggered and it’s Not Even Christmas Yet
Royal Mail's online Price Finder tool is suffering "technical difficulties", which doesn't exactly bode well for the Christmas onslaught that's headed its way. The Price Finder helps you work out...
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Virgin Media Suffered Three-Hour “National Outage” Last Night
Virgin Media has issued an apology about last night. The company's broadband service suffered a three-hour period of downtime yesterday evening, which effected users across the country.
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Apple Says iCloud Isn’t Broken For Anybody Anymore
Recently some iClouders have been having trouble with the service’s email. The downtime made a bit of a mess for the roughly two million users it affected, but now Apple has apologised, and assured...
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BlackBerry Network Collapses Again — Vodafone Users Cut Off This Morning
RIM’s been suffering from another rather large technical issue this morning, which has seen all connected services completely broken for those using their BBs on the Vodafone network. Vodafone claims...
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O2 Gives Ericsson the Boot and Pledges £10 Million to Fix Reoccurring Network...
Apparently all the trouble that O2′s been having recently with network outages, with the last issue raising its ugly head just last week, have been down to Ericsson. Its recently installed...
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Apple’s Just an Ordinary Company Now, Like Any Other
There used to be a time when Apple didn’t make mistakes. When pretty much everything it put out was glitch-free. Not necessarily perfect, of course, but outages, serious bugs, and simple errors weren’t...
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The Pirate Bay Is Down Across the Globe (Updated: Panic’s Over)
If you sketchily poked on over to The Pirate Bay to do a little downloading of legal, quasi-legal, or outright illegal downloading recently, you may have noticed you can’t get through. No, your ISP...
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Syria Dropped Off the Face of the Internet Again
Last week, Syria completely disappeared from the Internet, and not for the first time either. Since then, it poked its head back out into cyberspace, but not for long; Google’s Transparency Report is...
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Google Apologises for 2.6 Second Gmail Delays
Google’s issued an apology and humble explanation for the tech issues that dogged Gmail for some yesterday, which varied in impact from triggering the odd error message to causing a small percentage of...
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Looks Like Facebook Is Broken Right Now
Monday morning got off to a rough start for Facebook, where users reported widespread difficulty updating their status. The extent of the outage is so far unclear, but if Twitter whining is any...
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