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Update: BlackBerry blackout hits RIM's customers
News Users in other countries, including the UK, who connect via a North American server will also be experiencing the blackout. BlackBerry addicts were forced to undergo a period of unplanned cold turkey last night after a massive outage on Tuesday. [18 Apr 2007]
Aramiska users scrabble to find supplier after web blackout
News When satellite broadband provider Aramiska shut down its service with just hours' notice late last week, a number of rural networks and businesses too far from local exchanges for traditional connectivity suddenly found themselves plunged into... [30 Jan 2006]
VoIP users to get new phone numbers - and no blackout protection?
News On top of which, anyone using VoIP over their home PC will not be able to use the service during an electricity blackout (unless they also ran a generator or an uninterruptible power supply). Ofcom has begun to lay out the future for commercial... [06 Sep 2004]
Blaster dodges responsibility for US blackout
News A US and Canadian task force investigating the August 2003 blackout that cut power to an estimated 50 million North Americans published its final report Monday, finding that institutional, human and computer failures - not the MSBlast worm - led... [06 Apr 2004]
Email hoax prompts GMX weekend blackout
News A bogus email led to a service blackout over the weekend for one of Germany's top email service providers, GMX. Many of the company's four million users had their email addresses deleted after global domain name registrar, Network Solutions, acted... [27 Mar 2000]
Oftel investigates Vodafone blackout
News Vodafone customers have been left in the dark this week, as the mobile phone operator's network experienced major switch failures. On Wednesday many customers in the Hayes and West London area were unable to get a signal or connect to other mobile... [02 Apr 1999]
BlackBerry blackout: RIM breaks its silence
News RIM has finally given some details about what caused a severe outage of its popular BlackBerry email service. The company said in a statement it had ruled out security and capacity issues as a cause of the outage that left millions of so called... [20 Apr 2007]
BlackBerry blackout: Is RIM overreaching itself?
News RIM's massive BlackBerry email outage this week highlights how vulnerable the company's network has become as it tries to keep up with demand for its popular service. RIM did not provide details of what caused the outage, which left millions of... [19 Apr 2007]
Disaster recovery follows US blackout
News The power outage in the US has seen some companies invoke their disaster recovery services. SunGard, which has about 7,000 disaster recovery clients in North America, said about 30 customers activated their service. [15 Aug 2003]
Zombie PC army responsible for big name web blackout
News The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo! and other major websites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"- a large network of zombified home PCs - Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies said. [17 Jun 2004]
Denial-of-service attack causes web blackout
News A denial-of-service attack was responsible for a domain name outage on Tuesday morning that left many popular websites, including those of Yahoo! Google, Microsoft and Apple, temporarily inaccessible, according to web infrastructure company Akamai. [16 Jun 2004]
Hackers cause blackout on FT.com web page
News A web page on FT.com has been shut down by hackers. The site's credit card comparison service has been replaced by a black screen with the message, 'Hacked by CyberBlade'. Daniel Angel, product manager for the comparison service, confirmed that the... [27 Jul 2001]
Europe faces Y2K blackout
News Europe's infrastructure is at risk from the millennium bug, according to a report the European Commission is expected to present to European leaders at their summit in Cologne this week. The report speculates that nuclear facilities in Eastern... [03 Jun 1999]
Students left in the dark as blackout hits loans company
News The collections department of the UK's Student Loan Company (SLC) faced blank screens on Friday, as the company's computer system ground to a halt. Customers ringing to check the status of their accounts were told to call again at another time. [12 Apr 1999]
France faces Year 2000 blackout
News France could lose up to 75 per cent of its electricity supply, as nuclear power stations are forced to close because of Y2K computer failure. The French Institute of Nuclear Safety (IPSN) is warning that between 45 and 80 per cent of the country's... [05 May 1999]
