Remember all the discussion of China and its approach to the Internet that was heard around the Beijing Olympics? It seems that a lot of that type of coverage has slid into the background until recently. Apparently once Google gets involved these items become news again.
Google Compensating For Apps Outage
A Google Apps outage that occurred earlier this month concerned a lot of people. Users of the Premier Edition were paying for the service, and 15 hours of downtime and questionable communication is not good, regardless. So now Google’s unveiling a free extension of service and the way in which it will handle any future problems.
Netflix Outage Angers Customers
Online DVD movie company Netflix said today it is experiencing its worst major outage in its history, preventing shipments of discs to around a third of its 8.4 million customers.The company said it was unable to ship any DVDs on Tuesday, some on Wednesday and none so far on Thursday.
Google Apologizes For Gmail Outage
A two-hour blip in Gmail’s availability spurred a rush of complaints both in and out of Google before the problem received a fix.
Yahoo Apologizes For Merchant Outage
The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform.
Yahoo Merchants Toasted By Monday Outage
Customers with credit cards to burn found some of Yahoo’s merchants unable to process orders due to problems with the underlying technology.
Google AdWords Gets Update Along w/ Outage
When I saw that Google had announced a new look for AdWords, my heart skipped a beat as I envisioned a sexy new interface that would put Yahoo’s recently launched Panama to shame. Alas, if it weren’t for the announcement, you get when logging in to AdWords, you may not have even noticed a change.
Six Apart Outage Caused by Stupidity
If you have a TypePad blog, you will definitely know about the denial of service attack on Six Apart’s servers earlier this week, when access to TypePad blogs (as well as other Six Apart services such as LiveJournal) was down for some considerable time.
Salesforce.com Outage Length Questioned
What Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff characterized as a “minor” 30-minute outage has drawn criticism from some customers who experienced much longer disturbances.
Google PageRank Outage on Google Toolbar
The Google PageRank indicator isn’t displaying anything resembling green, on the ubiquitous Google toolbar.