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TalkTalk Confirms UK Broadband Outages
If you’re a TalkTalk broadband customer and are currently on hold trying to get through to their technical support, perhaps we can help assist you in a much faster manner. If you have been experiencing problems with your internet this morning, we can both shed some light on it and…
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Facebook & Instagram Suffer 10 Hours Of Outage Disruption
Facebook And Instagram Outage While many of us in the UK and Europe have been blissfully sleeping through the drama, it seems that Facebook has encountered some pretty serious problems over night. In a report via the BBC, the social media site has confirmed that issues to the platform left…
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Major Facebook Outage Seems to Affect Millions
It seems that people around the world have trouble accessing their Facebook accounts and as a result, the worldwide productivity rises by 80%. Nah, I’m just kidding about that last part, but Facebook does seem to be unavailable to a lot of people. The downtime of Facebook can easily be…
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BT Blunder Sends All Outgoing Email to One Inbox
For three hours on Tuesday last week, a mistake made by broadband provider BT saw all of their users’ outgoing email sent to a single inbox instead of their intended destination. Thankfully for the users, the inbox that the mail was sent to was an internal mail account used solely…
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Yahoo Mail Went Down And All They Got Was A Single Tweet
In this day and age, keeping your customers up to date is as important as getting them on board in the first place. Reports started circulating yesterday that Yahoo users weren’t able to access their email accounts, and all they got for their troubles was a single tweet. Originally reported…
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BT Internet and Phone Suffers Nationwide Outage
BT’s phone and internet services have crashed across the UK over the last hour. Down Detector, a website that tracks internet failures, has been inundated with reports that BT customers all over the country – from London to Birmingham, Manchester to Glasgow – have experienced outages. The faults peaked at…
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Twitter Suffers Massive Outage
Twitter didn’t have the best stability record when it first launched and there were so many downtimes that we even got a nickname for them, the fail whale. Recently Twitter has upped the service standard and the outages have become rare, especially a complete one like it is being experienced…
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All BBC Services are Currently Down
The BBC is currently suffering from intermittent internet service outages this morning. All BBC web-based services have been affected including iPlayer and the main news website. DownDetector has shown a dramatic rise in reports of the websites being unavailable from around 7am too, the website is showing 500 error pages,…
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Amazon Web Services Goes Down Before Getting Up Again
Bit of Tubthumping play on words in the title there, readers who remember the 90s will get this, surely, oh come on I am not that old! Anyway, many web services are intrinsically integrated with each other to bring benefits to consumers, all well and good then right? Yes and…
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Sony Announced That PSN Europe Is Going to Get Its Service Status Indicator Soon
Up until now, Sony had no feature that would allow users to check if the PSN network is up and running in Europe. Whether you had trouble connecting to the store or accessing online functions, you wouldn’t have known if your Internet connection was at fault or Sony’s PSN was…
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Amazon Experiences Europe-Wide Outage
Last night, users of Amazon in the UK, Denmark, Germany or many other places in Europe for that matter, found themselves locked out of the preeminent online store for quite some time. With this and the company’s Instant Video service was also reported to be down as well, you’d think Amazon would…
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Lizard Squad Claims Responsibility for Facebook Outage
As you probably know by now, Facebook and Instagram both experienced outages in the last few hours. Droves of Social Media addicts turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations at the “social apocalypse”. Now, news has surfaced that Lizard Squad is claiming responsibility. Yes, the group behind the Christmas DDoS…
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Microsoft Update Takes Down Bing and Yahoo
The outages of search engines Bing and Yahoo! Search on Friday night has been attributed to a flawed piece of code uploaded to servers by Microsoft. The bad code also took down live.com, Microsoft’s Hotmail redirect, and Office 365 for a short period. Yahoo’s search facility is now powered by…
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Microsoft Azure and Xbox Live Suffer Major Outage
Yesterday Microsoft encountered quite a significant outage across many of its online and cloud-based products. Even its own website partially went down. The outage mainly affected the company’s Azure cloud platform, meaning people couldn’t access files, virtual machines or in some cases their own websites. The issue seemed to occur…
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Facebook Offline for a Short While
“My life is over” – Most 13-19 year olds throughout the world today. As of 1PM PST however, the popular social network is back online in all affected countries. Today at 12:40pm PST, users from the US, UK, Germany, Thailand, Portugal and other smaller countries reported of a Facebook outage…
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