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Yahoo Apologizes For Merchant Outage

The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform.

Yahoo Merchants Toasted By Monday Outage

Customers with credit cards to burn found some of Yahoo's merchants unable to process orders due to problems with the underlying technology.

Rackspace Wrecked By Wayward Truck Driver

Plenty of popular websites suffered a couple of hours of unanticipated downtime when a truck hit a transformer and took down Rackspace's Dallas datacenter.

Skype Outage Dials Up Conspiracy Theories

That 36-hour blank spot where Skype's login and authentication systems used to be may have been down for reasons beyond the official party line...but you have to believe the *truth* is out there.

Skype Brought Down By Microsoft Update

Patch Tuesday became a Friday the 13th for Skype this month, as a Windows Update devastated Skype's authentication network.

Skype Knocked Out By The Algorithm

VoIP company Skype experienced a massive outage due to a problem the company blamed on a deficient network software algorithm.

Social Networking Soars Around The World

Global usage of social networking sites increased dramatically year over year as tens of millions of people visited MySpace, Facebook, and similar services.

Google AdWords Gets Update Along w/ Outage

When I saw that Google had announced a new look for AdWords, my heart skipped a beat as I envisioned a sexy new interface that would put Yahoo’s recently launched Panama to shame. Alas, if it weren’t for the announcement, you get when logging in to AdWords, you may not have even noticed a change.

Six Apart Outage Caused by Stupidity

If you have a TypePad blog, you will definitely know about the denial of service attack on Six Apart's servers earlier this week, when access to TypePad blogs (as well as other Six Apart services such as LiveJournal) was down for some considerable time.

Salesforce.com Outage Length Questioned

What Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff characterized as a "minor" 30-minute outage has drawn criticism from some customers who experienced much longer disturbances.