Amazon.com and you're (not) done.
Amazon's homepage went down for 51 minutes this afternoon in a highly unusual outage.
[Updated: 10:05 pm PST: The service is back up]
Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service is having an outage this evening just as new downloadable content arrives for Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
Just 20 minutes ago, Microsoft posted …
Yesterday Google went down for about 30 minutes ... until it was fixed by a network engineer who doesn't even work for Google.
Update: Twitter returned to fully-operational status at about 9:30am Pacific time, after about 45 minutes offline.
Twitter is down right now — hard down. The site is unresponsive, and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe says it’s down for you as well as Yours Truly. …
It’s been a rough night for T-Mobile customers, as the carrier confirmed that it experienced a nationwide data outage across its network. (Update: T-Mobile now says data service has been restored.)
We’ve been seeing reports from T-Mobile customers experiencing …
An outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter updates and our own checks, all three services are unavailable as of Friday evening at 9:10 p.m. …
Last week a fairly minor Amazon cloud outage knocked popular Q&A site Quora and part of Salesforce.com offline. Service quality at web giants Pinterest and Dropbox was affected. It was a fairly minor incident compared to last year’s multi-day meltdown …
Update: Spotify’s service has been restored for all users, according to the Spotify Status Twitter account. Original post below.
Many users of the popular music streaming service Spotify are unable to log in to their accounts this morning in a …
After a huge service outage, Virgin Mobile is reporting that its network is up and running once again.
Around 18 hours ago, the mobile provider noticed the widespread loss of service and issued a statement saying, “We apologize, but we …
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a serious outage Tuesday evening and many customers are still without full access, according to the Azure Service Dashboard.
Azure is used by many companies to host and build web applications through Microsoft’s own data …
Following scheduled maintenance last week, the Playstation Network store in Europe, Australia and New Zealand is no longer working for many users. The problem, reported widely across the European Playstation forums, is that no content can be downloaded from the …
Losing network access seems to be a common occurrence for Verizon Wireless customers these days. They woke up to yet another nationwide data outage this morning.
The outage, which affected the carrier’s 3G and 4G LTE data networks, drove subscribers …
Siri, Apple’s new voice assistant feature for the iPhone 4S, is apparently suffering from an outage, which has rendered it useless for many iPhone owners. The outage began at around 11 am PST today.
Siri isn’t just a simple piece …
Research in Motion has finally launched its BBM Music app out of beta, giving its BlackBerry users a social way to listen to music on their devices, the company announced Wednesday.
RIM first showed-off its new BBM Music app back …
After the worst service outage in its history last week, Research in Motion said Monday that it will try to appease its BlackBerry users by giving them free apps worth more than $100.
The BlackBerry brand has struggled to keep …
Poor Research in Motion. Just two days from Apple’s iPhone 4S launch, the BlackBerry maker is in the midst of a three-day long service outage that has now spread to North America.
The outage, which is the worst since 2009 …
Update: Sony said around 1:45 pm PST that the service was back up.
The Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) suffered an outage today and the online gaming service, which had more than 77 million registered users earlier this year, still isn’t …
Sony reported a $199 million loss in the first fiscal quarter ended June 30 because of problems including the Japan earthquake and the hacking of the PlayStation Network.
Like Nintendo last night, Sony also cut its profit forecast. Sony said …
Sony on Wednesday said it planned to rearrange the senior management of its video game unit just months after hackers shut down the PlayStation Network for nearly a month.
The management reshuffle is unsurprising, as Sony has faced many issues …
