Microsoft has issued an apology after Skype was down for most part of the day on Monday and it was quite a few hours before everything was back to normal. The outage…
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Skype is down globally; Microsoft working on a fix
Skype users across the globe are facing connectivity issues as the popular VoIP and instant message app is down since a couple of hours. Users have taken to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and…
Apple’s core services back to normal post Wednesday outage
Apple’s iTunes, App Store, iCloud, iBooks Store and Mac App Store were found to be working normally on Wednesday afternoon following a long and rare breakdown. The global outage, which began around…
Facebook: Tuesday outage was not result of a hacking attack
Facebook has confirmed that Tuesday outage was not the result of any hacking attack rather it was due to an internal fault. The Tuesday outage that affected the world’s most popular social…
Twitter recovers from Monday outage which caused timeline and tweet delays
Twitter says that it has managed to clear up the mess that resulted in an outage affecting posting tweets and refreshing timelines late on Monday. Twitter users complained of facing issue with…
Bing, Yahoo search engines back on track post brief Friday outage
Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search engines suffered a temporary outage on Friday, all because of a bad code update. While Bing recovered from the outage in less than half an hour time,…
Sony woos outage affected PlayStation users with enticing offers
Sony, on Thursday, announced it is offering a 10 per cent discount on PlayStation Store purchases and 5 day extension to their PlayStation Plus subscription to make it up to millions of…
Twitter back on track post temporary outage
Twitter was hit by a temporary outage on Monday morning as millions of Twitter Android users reported facing a sign in problem. Users who tried signing up for the micro blogging service…
North Korea: US responsible for recent internet outages in the country
North Korea, on Saturday, blamed the US for internet outages the country has recently experienced amid a confrontation over Sony Pictures’ hacking. Some of North Korea’s main internet sites remained disrupted early…
Microsoft Xbox Live and Sony PlayStation Network face outages on Christmas
Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network faced outages on the Christmas Eve following DDoS by a hacking group calling themselves the Lizard Squad. Microsoft acknowledged the disruption and posted a message…
Steam, other Valve services down
The Steam platform and all the other services provided by Valve are currently down except the SteamDB database – an outage that isn’t preplanned and one that hasn’t been explained either. Valve…
eBay to refund fee credits to sellers affected by Sunday outage
eBay: We know how much it matters to your livelihood that eBay functions properly and that lately our performance hasn’t met your expectations. We apologise for this, and we’re taking steps to make sure that we exceed your expectations going forward.
eBay down for hours due to technical glitch; Facebook suffered 15 minutes outage
Yahoo’s Tumblr, Apple’s iTunes store and LinkedIn have also faced similar issues on Wednesday!
eBay suffers downtime; sellers ask company to cough up compensation
The latest downtime is eBay’s tenth this year and its users are none too pleased – at least the sellers.
BBC fixes iPlayer technical issues
The technical glitch that affected users of the online video and audio services was due to database issues.