Belgacom pulled plug on Ouranous network
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Satellite provider promises 'announcement' on Friday Belgacom cut off satellite broadband provider Ouranous Networks the telecoms services company confirmed this week.â¦
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Three weeks after the U.S. Naval War College's networks were taken offline after a network intrusion was discovered,  there's  no word on when it will be restored.
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Karoo boo boo Karoo, Hull's monopoly ADSL provider, has been hit by a major outage today that has forced much of the city's population offline.â¦
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Just over four years into a 20-year agreement, France TÃ©lÃ©com SA is abandoning a U.S. dark-fiber network it rented from Level 3 Communications Inc. -- and replacing it with a network of lit fibers, also from Level 3, the companies announced Tuesday.
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NBC Universal's quirky Trio cable network lost about half of its subscribers over the weekend as DirecTV pulled the plug, the companies said on Monday.
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NBC Universal's quirky Trio cable  network lost about half of its subscribers over the weekend as  DirecTV pulled the plug, the companies said on Monday.
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IAC/InterActive spins off the online travel service. Also: PCs sprout second brain.... Nielson ratings show broadband users surpassing dialup.... and more.
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A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.
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Silent night Updated The Virgin Media cable network collapsed overnight, leaving up to three million people without internet access for several hours in the crucial final shopping days before Christmas.â¦
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Only Google can save the airwaves Frontline Wireless, the uber-startup that was poised to lay down a bid for a prime portion of the US wireless spectrum, now says it's "closed for business".â¦
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?
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Oversold technology, under-priced fees Citywide Wi-Fi was supposed to be the lifeline that would lead Earthlink to higher ground. With two of major deals suddenly declared dead and a third on suicide watch, it's starting to look like a ball and chain.â¦
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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Telus, the Western Canadian telephone company, unexpectedly withdrew its bid for its larger rival, Bell Canada.
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France Telecom's  Orange  unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK Internet  connection business of Time Warner Inc.'s  AOL, an  industry source close to the matter said on Thursday.
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A wireless startup company that planned to build a national public safety communications system has apparently bailed out of the upcoming airwaves auction, a move that creates doubt about the future prospects for the network.
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Damnit, JANET A mysterious equipment failure has crippled part of the UK's superfast educational network JANET (Joint Academic Network).â¦