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  Verizon: LTE services "returning to normal"

  Verizon says subscribers should expect its LTE services to come back online soon after a nationwide outage knocked them offline this morning (See: "Verizon Wireless outage outraging customers") .

  By Brad Reed | 22 December, 2011 06:30

  Tags: 3G & 4G, 4g, lte, networking, outage, Telecommunication, Verizon Wireless, WiMAX & LTE, wireless

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  CBA services back online

  Commonwealth Bank says its services are back to normal after a connection failure left thousands of customers without access to cash.

  By AAP | 15 December, 2011 08:59

  Tags: commonwealth bank, network outage, outage

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  Updated: Qantas suffers check-in system outage

  Qantas has suffered another setback this morning when its check-in system experienced a fault that left it unable to print boarding passes for almost three hours, resulting in minor delays for passengers.

  By Chloe Herrick | 30 November, 2011 09:30

  Tags: outage, qantas

• Microsoft's Hotmail, Office365 suffer outage (updated)

  Australian businesses and users have been unable to access Office365 Cloud services or Hotmail email due to a worldwide outage. MSN.com and Live@edu accounts have also been affected.

  By Hamish Barwick | 09 September, 2011 14:47

  Tags: hotmail, Microsoft, Office365, outage, security

• My Vodafone bill payment service down

  Vodafone Hutchinson Australia, the company that operates the Vodafone brand in Australia, has reported another outage - this time with its My Vodafone bill payment service.

  By Hamish Barwick | 01 April, 2011 10:54

  Tags: outage, Vodafone Hutchison Australia

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  Virgin Mobile back online after billing system upgrade

  Mishaps that left Virgin Mobile’s billing system out of action have now been resolved, according to the mobile-only telco.

  By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2011 13:16

  Tags: billing systems, CRM, outage, Singl.eView, virgin mobile

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  CRM upgrade downs online services at Virgin Mobile

  A CRM and billing system upgrade project at Virgin Mobile has gone south with the mobile carrier unable to offer most of its online services including sales and account management.

  By Rodney Gedda | 23 February, 2011 16:21

  Tags: billing systems, CRM, outage, RightNow, virgin mobile

• USyd systems admin attacked in website hack

  Users of the Eris Free IRC network (EFnet) have claimed responsibility for hacking Web servers at Sydney University last Friday, causing outages to the front page over the weekend.

  By James Hutchinson | 17 January, 2011 08:46

  Tags: hacking, outage, university of sydney

• Skype blames buggy Windows software, swamped servers for outage

  Promises to look into auto-updating its Windows client software to prevent another blackout

  By Gregg Keizer | 29 December, 2010 18:59

  Tags: outage, Skype, windows server

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  Twitter hit by outage

  Twitter is recovering from an unspecified technical problem that affected the microblogging service's main site and its APIs (application programming interfaces) for about one hour late Tuesday morning.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 09 June, 2010 04:57

  Tags: outage, twitter

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  Wikipedia suffers global collapse

  Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Web sites went down for hours on Wednesday in a global outage caused by a domino effect of technical problems.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 March, 2010 06:54

  Tags: outage, wikimedia, Wikimedia Foundation, wikipedia

• RIM's future strong despite outages and outraged users

  A data service outage affecting some BlackBerry users nationally this week seems to have left them angry but not deeply concerned about the future of BlackBerry's parent, Research in Motion Ltd.

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 March, 2010 08:47

  Tags: IDC, outage, RIM BlackBerry

• Bing goes down for a half hour

  A day after trumpeting various enhancements to Bing, including the beta version of an improved mapping service, Microsoft had to apologise for a widespread outage that kept the search engine offline for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 05 December, 2009 02:42

  Tags: bing, Microsoft, outage

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  Google's Blogger service suffers widespread outage

  Google's popular Blogger blog-publishing service crashed early on Friday and remained unavailable to most users for about 90 minutes, the type of broad system outage that Google has been trying to eradicate from its Web-hosted applications.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 October, 2009 07:23

  Tags: Blogger, downtime, Google, outage

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  Google's Blogger service suffers widespread outage

  Google's popular Blogger blog-publishing service crashed early on Friday and remained unavailable to most users for about 90 minutes, the type of broad system outage that Google has been trying to eradicate from its Web-hosted applications.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 October, 2009 05:57

  Tags: Blogger, blogging, google blogs, outage