EarthLink webmail crashes on Earth Day

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...

My Internet bank code word refused, Germany Kaupthing bank offline

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...

Muxtape Shut Down by RIAA Issues

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...

Sony Confirms Firmware Withdrawal After PS3 'Bricking'

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...

Hate group hacks hip-hop sites

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...

Get On The Stick! ... With Cuba’s IT Underground :: Symblogogy

"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...

Addicted...Need to Go Off..Line, Commit...to 52 Nights Unplugged

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...

CALIFORNIA FIRE UPDATE - California cuts power use

"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...

Torrent Tracker Demonoid.com Taken Offline

 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...

Skype goes dark, may be offline until Friday

"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...

Short hiatus while moving climateaudit.org Steve McIntyre

"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...

UN Website Hacked

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...

Web Whiz Ron Paul Faces Test of Offline Presidential Appeal

"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...

Fake MPAA-Sponsored Video Site Goes Offline

"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...

Bowling Alone? Not if you do it in MySpace first...

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...

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