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Verizon suffers wireless failures even before 'explosive' launch of iPhone

Posted January 27, 2011 - 11:33 am

Verizon customers suffer spotty data and voice outages on both coasts; Verizon still confident iPhone launch in mid-February won't cause more problems.
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Blackberry Bounces Again

Posted December 24, 2009 - 1:58 pm

Ooops, they did it again. RIM suffered an email breakdown and shut Blackberry users out of their mobile email for several hours yesterday. The good news, I suppose, is that a lot of people are already on vacation for the Christmas/New Year's holiday.
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A Day without Blackberry Email

Posted December 17, 2009 - 12:57 pm

Welcome to Thursday -- and news that Blackberry email service is down. According to the folks at CrackBerry.com, it's been out since around 3:00 am EST, and is hitting users on all cellular carriers.
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Cellular Network Outage Raises Carrier Questions

Posted December 15, 2009 - 3:13 pm

Business IT hates single points of failure. Hate's 'em. With good reason, too, since a single point of failure means that some significant portion of your operation is at the mercy of a single component or vendor. One of the most common and critical "single point of failure" locations is the provider for your wireless network.
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Comcast e-mail outage sparks Twitter updates galore

Posted April 5, 2009 - 9:22 pm

Comcast.net e-mail went down for potentially millions of subscribers the better part of the day Saturday.
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Google Gmail Outage Not Harbinger of Doom for SaaS

Posted February 25, 2009 - 12:45 pm

Yes, Google's Gmail suffered a two-hour outage yesterday. Yes, various doom and gloomers yelled about the sky falling. No, neither Google nor any other technology is available 100 percent of the time. Yes, you can trust Software As A Service going forward, probably far more than many small businesses can trust their own servers.
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