Remember all the discussion of China and its approach to the Internet that was heard around the Beijing Olympics? It seems that a lot of that type of coverage has slid into the background until recently. Apparently once Google gets involved these items become news again.
The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform.
Customers with credit cards to burn found some of Yahoo's merchants unable to process orders due to problems with the underlying technology.
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.
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.
Patch Tuesday became a Friday the 13th for Skype this month, as a Windows Update devastated Skype's authentication network.
VoIP company Skype experienced a massive outage due to a problem the company blamed on a deficient network software algorithm.
Global usage of social networking sites increased dramatically year over year as tens of millions of people visited MySpace, Facebook, and similar services.
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.
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.
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