The internet was full of more moaning sad men than usual over the weekend, as a massive chunk of downtime broke Xbox Live and crippled Microsoft's gaming service in the UK and overseas. This is why we don't want to have to deal with an always-on console. Read More >>
"Experts" quoted by the Daily Express claim that the internet as we know it could be taken out by Hurricane Sandy, thanks to a doomsday scenario that doesn't really tally with how the internet actually works. Read More >>
Featured comment by darkly:
"The Daily Express? Aren't they just like the poorer, dumber in-bred cousin of the Daily Mail, but slightly more Right Wing? I wouldn't trust them to t..." More »
The Pirate Bay suffered nigh-on 48 hours of downtime earlier this week, prompting millions of internet users to consider paying for legitimate DVD copies of movies. Or, more likely, to spend 30 seconds looking for an alternate torrent tracker. Anyway, it's back up. Read More >>
Featured comment by gjgbarclay:
"Na, last I heard was a TorrentFreak article where they jumped to 174, but it never seemed to go live.
http://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-secretly-expan..." More »
The bizarre glitch that saw Microsoft break/suspend the publishing of new apps on its Marketplace has been fixed, with MS mending the digital certificate problem that was causing the WP app store to appear even more barren than usual. It'll take "a day or two" for the updated code to fully deploy and for new apps to appear again for those hit by the lockout. [Windows Team Blog] Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Not to take anything away from it (honestly) but it is a lot easier for professional devs to convert existing Apps then it is to create new ones. Thus..." More »
Yesterday, everyone's go-to online source for free information (cited or not) was knocked offline for a couple of hours, thanks to a bunch of accidentally cut cables near a data centre in Florida. Read More >>
Twitter was down for a big chunk of last night, causing the nation to look up from its telephones, blink and look around the room in a state of distress, then get up to instinctively make a cup of tea. Twitter says it broke, hackers say they hacked it. Who's right? Read More >>
Virgin Media has issued an apology about last night. The company's broadband service suffered a three-hour period of downtime yesterday evening, which effected users across the country. Read More >>
Featured comment by LeeZerUK:
"Online gaming was down. both psn and xboxLive. hotmail.com. xbox.com, eu.playstation.com, uk.playstation.com to name a few were down for virgin custo..." More »
BlackBerry maker RIM has announced it's giving away a stack of apps and games to its users over the next few months, as a combined apology and peace-offering to those who suffered during last week's "BlackBerry Jam" network failures. Read More >>
BlackBerry maker RIM has released a statement on the ongoing BlackBerry Messenger service failures, saying that pretty much everything broke at once. And there's now a big backlog of sexy texts to process. Read More >>
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