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A cat went from meow to ow when officials say it accidentally made contact with a substation's fuse, causing an outage to about 1,500 homes and businesses in southwestern Illinois. The feline apparently survived the encounter early Monday in the Greene County city of Carrollton.
Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers.
T-Mobile USA Inc. said about 5 percent of its subscribers are still having problems with its phone and data services as of Tuesday evening.
A brief power outage at Boston's Logan International Airport has caused flight delays and some cancellations.
The Montana-UC Davis football game has been delayed due to a power outage.
Google's e-mail service, Gmail, should be "back up and running as usual," according to the company, after an outage Tuesday that affected a "majority" of its millions of users.
Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of e-mail users, including consumers who get Gmail for free and businesses that pay for a version for their employees.
Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week.
PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday.
Internet users in China were unable to access search giant Google Inc.'s main Web site or its Chinese service, and the company said Thursday it was investigating.
A power outage darkened Pakistan's largest city and commercial capital for almost a day Thursday, leaving millions of people without fans or air conditioning during the summer heat, officials said.
Missouri legislators spent about an hour in the dark Tuesday because of a power outage at the state Capitol — and a snake took all the blame and paid the price.
A "temporary outage" of Microsoft's MSN, Windows Live and Hotmail services resulted in users being told they didn't have an e-mail inbox when they signed in, and they also were directed to sign up for new e-mail. The problem was resolved as of Friday morning, according to Microsoft.
Cell phone, Internet and landline service is back in Silicon Valley after one or more vandals apparently severed eight fiber-optic cables.
Vandals severed eight fiber optic cables early Thursday in San Jose and another nearby town, leaving thousands of people without cell phone, Internet and landline service, officials said.
Google Inc. is making amends for an e-mail outage by giving 15 days of free service to businesses, government agencies and other subscribers who pay for an expanded version of the product.
A broken water main knocked out power to 100,000 people in a residential area near downtown Toronto during a bitter cold snap, closing some subways stations and disrupting the morning rush hour Friday.
A robotic submarine searched beneath the Mediterranean on Sunday for damaged communications cables, two days after Web and telephone access was knocked out for much of the Middle East.
Egypt's Internet service is back up to 60 percent capacity after being almost entirely knocked out when several undersea cables were cut, the country's Communications Ministry said Saturday.
Customers of New York City-based Citibank have lost access to much of their account information because of a computer outage.
Power was restored at Ralph Wilson Stadium after 45 minutes with the Buffalo Bills and San Diego Chargers having played about 16 minutes of game time Sunday.
AT&T Inc.'s wireless data network was down Wednesday morning in parts of the eastern U.S., according to user reports and the company.
The sheriff's department in southern California's Orange County says the 911 emergency call system for much of the county has been repaired after an outage that shut it down for 90 minutes.
Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. resumed normal shipments Friday after its distribution centers were crippled by three days of severe technical problems, a spokesman said.
A beaver took a nibble out of a fiber optic cable northeast of Hope and knocked out telephones and other services to part of southwest Arkansas. Rain washed away soil that had covered the line about 10 miles from Hope and the beaver bit through it early Wednesday.
Serious Twitter Outage Ongoing, Denial Of Service Attack (Updated) - washingtonpost.comTwitter has been down for about 40 minutes now (since about 6 am California time), and counting. No word on their status blog about the outage at all (Update: they now say "Site is down - We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.").
Hot-air balloon makes shocking landing A hot air balloon landing caused a four-hour power outage when it became entangled with a power line while landing on Monday night near Kevelear in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Google Suffers Another Service OutageGoogle dealt with another service outage Monday that impacted users around the world. Today's service outage, which began at approximately 8:30 a.m. EDT, appears to have affected only Google's popular Google News service. As of this writing (9:44 a.m.
Google Says Outage Caused By Traffic Routing ErrorThe outage that took Google offline for scores of users on Thursday was caused by a traffic routing error, the company now says. The Google outage affected users across the United States and in numerous other countries.
Google's Outage Was Asia's FaultGoogle finally has an explanation for its giant fail whale earlier today. It was Asia's fault. For some reason, Google re-routed some of its traffic to Asia and that caused a massive traffic jam.
Googles Official Response to Todays OutagesImagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected.
YouTube arrives on Google News after outageGoogle News was inaccessible for many on Thursday morning. But when it re-emerged, it sported news videos hosted at YouTube.
Crowdsourced error detection and the Gmail outageGmail was down for an unknown amount of time today. Judging by the talk on Twitter some people were still having issues several hours after Google said the problem had been fixed.
Internet glitch hits NT againA major internet outage has hit Telstra's business customers across the Northern Territory.
Outage outrage as city hit twice in same weekPREMIER Nathan Rees was fuming after a power outage brought parts of Sydney to a standstill yesterday - the second major failure in a week.
Obama declares major disaster in Kentucky - Latest News - Kentucky.comAt its peak, the storm knocked out power to 769,353 customers in Kentucky. At least 27 deaths have been blamed on the storm, which Beshear has called "the worst natural disaster" in the state's modern history.
Peak of power outages hit 769,000 in Ky.Last week's ice storm knocked out electricity to nearly a third of Kentucky power customers, smashing the previous state record for outages that was set just four months ago.
UPDATE AS OF 11:10PM, FEB. 5TH, 2009 Current statewide customers without power....121,159 East of I-75.. .................2,314 Between I-65 & I-75.. 14,645 West of I-65...............104,200
Storm shutters Job CorpsMatthew Starr will never forget the coldness he felt after the Earle C. Clements Job Corps Academy lost power in last week's winter storm. "I feel sorry for everybody that had to go through this. My heart goes out to them," the 20-year-old said.
E-Mail Outage Forces White House to Operate the Oldfangled Way Shortly after the workweek began, the tech-savvy Obama administration was hit with a mysterious "server outage" that shut down all incoming and outgoing e-mail for more than eight hours, forcing aides to resort to old-fashioned phone calls and face-to-face conversation.
Time-Warner cable says that 1.2 million Internet users in Southern California were knocked offline for about 2 1/2 hours late last night by a failure in one of their computer servers.
Some Newsvine users (likely very few) may have noticed I haven't been here for the last three days. In case anyone was wondering, I didn't have electricity because the land-bound remnants of Ike swept into SW Ohio and proceeded to leave nearly a million people without power...
Netflix blames faulty hardware for massive outageNetflix is blaming a faulty piece of computer hardware for a breakdown that delayed millions of shipments to the online DVD rental service's customers earlier this month.
Netflix Goes Dark And Finds It's No Place To BeIt started this morning with an email apology from online movie rental powerhouse Netflix, confirming to its 8.4 million users that the company was suffering a shipping and distribution outage.
Tonight at 10PM PDT, Newsvine will be offline for about 20 minutes, followed by a few hours of "read-only" activity while we move our site to a new facility.
A small startup responds to Amazon's S3 outageToday's S3 outage has disrupted a lot of major web sites today including Twitter and SmugMug, both of which rely on S3 to host photos and/or icons. The service is coming back online now, but it's been down for almost 7 hours total.
I noticed it at breakfast this morning, my daily online newspaper reading was slowed to a crawl. I figured it was our cable internet provider and went to work.
Netflix glitch to delay deliveriesNetflix customers expecting a little red package soon may be disappointed. The largest online video-rental service has suffered a technical glitch that has knocked out its Web site as well as its logistics and delivery systems, according to a Steve Swasey, a company spokesman.
Netflix is back up, but ratings are brokenBeing a Netflix subscriber, I had been checking the site all day to see if it is back up and running. There has been coverage of this throughout the day and the site is finally back up, but I have noticed a fairly glaring problem: Netflix's movie ratings are broken.
Netflix down for at least five hoursInternet movie rental company Netflix suffered a site outage beginning at 7 a.m. PDT Monday, and the company doesn't know when it will have the problem fixed, a Netflix spokesman said.
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