Telehouse felled by power outage
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First time ever...since August Telehouse - the supposedly bullet-proof hosting solution for ISPs - has suffered another embarrasing power outage, just over a month after the last one.â¦
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Weather-related outages left more than 5,000 Rocky Mountain Power customers in Salt Lake and Tooele counties without electricity for at least part of the day Sunday.  Some of those customers were expected to be without power until early today, company spokesman Jeff Hymas said.
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Faulty electrical wiring may have sparked a fire that killed 10 people at a group home for the elderly and mentally ill, authorities said Wednesday.
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The currency matching system of news and information provider Reuters Group Plc  suffered a temporary outage on Monday, forcing some traders to switch to alternative venues or trade over the phone.
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Research In Motion's    ubiquitous BlackBerry experienced a "critical severity outage"  on Monday afternoon that left users stranded without wireless  e-mail access, its maker said.
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For paramedics in rural areas, responding to frantic calls for help is at times akin to doing a high-wire act without a net. Mountains, valleys, bad weather and long distances between hospitals make communication with emergency room physicians spotty at best and nonexistent at worst.
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By The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 15--UPDATED AT 10:10 A.M.   A computer network outage affecting several educational organizations in Whatcom County has knocked out e-mail and Internet access to several school sites.
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JUNEAU, Alaska - About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines. &quot;You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario,&quot; said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light &amp; Power spokeswoman.
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More than 200,000 customers of the internet company could lose telephone access and money paid in advance now that it has gone out of business.
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The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon raised &#36;59.4 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, but organizers said Monday that power outages and other disruptions from Hurricane Frances contributed to a decline over last year.
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CASPER, Wyo. - An owl electrocuted itself in an electrical substation, briefly knocking out power to almost 23,000 customers in south Casper.  Margaret Oler, spokeswoman for Rocky Mountain Power, said the bird tripped the high-voltage line at 10:20 p.m.
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In the event of a computer failure such as the one that caused massive power outages in the Northeast and upper Midwest last year, can the federal government intervene?
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Sprint Nextel Corp.  said an  outage of its cellphone service in parts of the New York  borough of Queens on Thursday was caused by water damage to  network equipment due to a burst pipe.
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. - A Valentine's Day balloon caused an electrical outage affecting more than 2,100 homes and businesses, power company officials said.
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Battery backups can save your butt during a blackout, but they're usually pretty pricey. Best Buy has one on sale for $29.99.
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Rolling electricity blackouts have created a national emergency with dire consequences for the economy. And there's no quick fix
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The currency trading platform of news and information provider Reuters Group  suffered an outage on Monday, prompting some dealers to switch to alternative venues or trade over the phone.