New Delhi: BlackBerry users from across the world are reporting issues with accessing BlackBerry services. A search for 'BlackBerry outage' or 'BlackBerry down' on Twitter leads to numerous recent results with many being constantly added, hinting at a major service disruption.
In a tweet from its official Twitter ID BlackBerry said, "Some of our customers may be experiencing issues with BlackBerry services. We are investigating and apologize for any inconvenience."
This latest BlackBerry outage brings back memories of the infamous service disruption of 2011 that frustrated millions of its customers around the world.
The last major disruption in BlackBerry services had pumped up pressure on its BlackBerry management to make sweeping changes. ...
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06:00 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Gmail was unavailable to a spate of users. The service is back to normal now, but it was inaccessible to users for around 30 minutes. Hit by a temporary outage, the website showed the Error 502 message. While trying to sign in to Gmail, the website said, "502. That's an error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30...
12:33 PM, May 02, 2013
Many US users were unable to access Facebook for several hours on Monday. ...
01:11 PM, Jan 29, 2013
An outage at one of Amazon's web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc's streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas Day, a spokesman for the movie rental company said on Tuesday. ...
10:10 AM, Dec 26, 2012
New York: The nor'easter, as promised, brought gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding. It menaced travelers with icy roads, snarled the Long Island Rail Road and knocked out power to people who had only recently gotten it back after Superstorm Sandy. But for the weary, relief is on the way. Joey Picca, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says the unwelcome snow and high winds are...
03:50 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New York: Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people. The city had shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of the superstorm Sandy...
07:23 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: BitTorrent indexing and search website Pirate Bay appears to be up after an extended downtime that had left many users anxious. The website had become unaccessible following a raid on the Swedish hosting company PRQ by the Swedish government on Monday. PRQ, which was founded by Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, is known to host or route many file-sharing sites. The website was accessible at...
03:51 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New York: GoDaddy, one of the world's biggest Internet hosting companies and website registration companies, blamed technical problems for a nearly six-hour service disruption that affected some of its more than 10 million customers on Monday. Sporadic outages throughout the day were caused by "a series of internal network events" that corrupted data in the company's networking equipment, interim Chief Executive Scott Wagner said in a statement. Go Daddy spokeswoman...
11:06 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New York: Thousands and possibly millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com went down for several hours on Monday, causing trouble for the mainly small businesses that rely on the service. A Twitter feed that claimed to be affiliated with the "Anonymous" hacker group said it was behind the outage, but that couldn't be confirmed. Another Twitter account, known to be associated with Anonymous, suggested the first one was just taking...
10:50 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Over drawing of electricity by northern states could be one of the reasons for the massive power failure in July that hit half of the country's population, according to the initial findings of a high-level panel appointed by the government to probe the grid collapse. "Western region was under drawing with no reduction in the generation capacities and the northern region was overdrawing resulting in inter-regional grid imbalances,"...
09:55 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: The widespread power outages this week reflects the inadequacy of India's infrastructure and have a negative impact on economic activity, rating agency Moody's said on Thursday. Triggering one of the world's worst power crisis ever, three grids collapsed this week affecting more than half of the country's 1.2 billion population. "The widespread power blackouts that hit India's (Baa3 stable) north, east and northeast regions on Monday and Tuesday...
11:24 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: Blaming government's "incompetence" for the power crisis in the country, the BJP on Wednesday attacked it for alleging that overdrawing by some states led to grid collapse and insisted it was caused by administrative and not technical failure. "The unprecedented grid failure is a result of negligence, incompetence and complete abdication of duty on the part of the central government. The central government is hiding some important facts...
06:37 PM, Aug 01, 2012
The power outage on Tuesday had half of the country in dark, here's a family from Delhi talking about how they coped. ...
05:55 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Some notable power outages around the world: July 31, 2012: Three power grids across half of India fail in what authorities call overdrawing of the system, leaving a record 620 million people without power for several hours and raising serious concerns about whether the country's outdated infrastructure can meet soaring demands. July 30, 2012: India's northern electricity grid fails for much of the day, leaving 370 million people without power....
10:51 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: In Olympics season, India has been on a record-breaking spree. Monday's power outage, which affected 370 million people after the Northern Grid collapsed, beat the Java-Bali outage in Indonesia which had affected 100 million people in August, 2005. But India's Power department is on a roll. It broke Monday's record the very next day. Collapse of the Northern, Eastern and North-Eastern grids threw 600 million people out of...
06:27 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: The world's most popular social networking service went down for several minutes a little after 6 PM IST on Tuesday and many worried social networking addicts took to the other popular social networking service Twitter to express their angst. While the Facebook website was back and running at the time of posting this, many users on Twitter reported that they were still unable to access the website. User...
06:46 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Los Angeles: Facebook's website suffered sporadic outages on Thursday (Friday in some time zones), anywhere from half an hour to two hours according to various blogs, tweets and affected users, but the company said the problem has been fixed. "Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site. The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook," company spokesman Michael Kirkland told Reuters. The...
02:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Though Facebook is back to normal now, but the social networking site was unavailable for a number of users on Tuesday morning. However, the website was accessible via mobile apps and the mobile site - m.facebook.com, but the access from desktops was reported to be down. The users turned to rival service Twitter to vent their frustrations at the outage. However, Facebook has not made a statement on...
01:48 PM, Mar 13, 2012
London: Facebook says that technical problems have made the site unavailable to some of its European users. A statement released by the social networking site's London-based public relations agency says that the issue "has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook." The scale and length of the outage remained unclear Wednesday. A representative said she had no immediate information on the problems or their nature. ...
08:03 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Mumbai: Customers of Bharti Airtel in the western part of Maharashtra are experiencing a service outage due to a technical glitch in the service provider's systems that cropped up on Tuesday. "A technical outage has affected our network in the western region, resulting in disruption of some services. We are working toward rectifying the outage at the earliest. We deeply regret the inconvenience caused to our customers," an Airtel spokesperson...
01:23 PM, Dec 27, 2011
