The webmail service 'EarthLink' suffered a major power outage this morning, and users were unable to access any of their pages; ironic considering today is Earth Day. (At time of publication the site is still down)It is not known what caused the crash, as the site was offline...
created by Amy Judd | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 455 views | 54 recommendations | 5 comments
Oct-9 2008 GermanyGerman custumers of Kaupting Bank have no online access to their accounts, password refused; 20 887 Euro guaranteed ($28 000). Problems are known since February. The last act we see, category V...
created by SOLARLIFE | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 499 views | 38 recommendations | 17 comments
Muxtape, our favourite office music mixtape source here at NP (and Wired's too apparently), has been shut down by the RIAA. UPDATE | 16:44 PST - The RIAA responds and states that Muxtape is Hosting "Illegal...
While the Playstation 3 is a great system, has a blu-ray player and some fun games, some users got a surprise when they updated the most recent firmware: it stopped working.The firmware is basically the software...
Scary stuff..." Beware hip-hop sites, there be some haters out there. Over the weekend, both SOHH.com and AllHipHop.com were targeted by what's believed to be a hate group, who hacked into the sites, caused chaos and forced the two to temporarily go offline. Instead of...
"Necessity is the mother of invention – or in this case adaptation. Information technology in Cuba, with its heavy-handed oversight of human activity, is in a process of breaking out of the grip of the...
Obviously since I have now been writing Serge the Concierge for close to 3 years and more recently Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet for my Panel at South by Southwest Interactive on March 8, I spend a decent amount of time online.I do not twitter or check my e-mail while on the...
"The California Independent System Operator, manager of the state power grid, on Monday called a "transmission emergency" as Southern California wildfires caused several big power lines to shut temporarily.
A fire...
created by Yommie | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 3328 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
For the benefit of all the Torrents downloaders
"
The popular Demonoid.com, a semi-private BitTorrent tracker, has been taken offline. Both the torrent tracker and the site have been unresponsive for...
created by korzac | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 4546 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
"Skype Ltd. early today blamed an unspecified "software problem" for an outage that might make the voice-over-IP service unavailable for as long as 24 hours.
"Some of you may be having problems logging into...
created by pgaliba | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 320 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Today Tomorrow (Thursday) sometime around 11am Pacific Standard Time, this server will go offline to be moved to its final home inside a colocation data center in California.The IP address will change, so give Anthony and team a couple of hours to move the server and...
created by merrie | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 576 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
Not a good week for computer systems."Hackers have attacked the United Nations official website, forcing some sections to be taken offline.
Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 388 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
"The question this weekend is whether the decentralized passion and organizational ability that his supporters have demonstrated online will translate into political action that will build the candidate's political capital in the offline world.The crucial event for some...
created by nk | 2 years ago 169 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline.
The site, called "MiiVi," contained whole downloads of movies as well as links to...
One of the ideas driving my citizen-community news web site is that in this day and age, you can approach the building and use of social capital (think of the issues raised in now oft-mentioned Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam) by beginning online with the reserve of shared...
created by biverson | 2 years ago 74 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment