Users left in lurch by network shutdown
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When Adele Rothman bought her 16-year-old son a car in 2003, she made sure to pick one that had OnStar, the onboard communications and safety system.
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?
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With what shall I Twitter my daily minutia!? Amazon Web Services was struck by a temporary outage today, dragging the thousands of web sites which rely on its hosted storage down with it.â¦
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The glory days of municipal Wi-Fi have dimmed for Tempe, Ariz. CIO Dave Heck, who now is trying get the network operator to restore service after shutting it down in December. Otherwise, the city will seize the network assets.
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Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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Before me lies the patient, a Gateway computer running Windows 98. It is suffering from extremely clogged Internet arteries, unable to reach the Web. As one of The Washington Post's digital doctors, my task is to nurse the machine back to health so my colleague Kathleen Day can access her e-mail and file stories from home.
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What are people supposed to do if they can't hear vital information over dysfunctional public address systems?
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Blog: The site's downage was not actually downage, representatives say, but rather a network carrier issue that slowed it down.
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Security experts contend that a growing number of operators of compromised computer networks (or "botnets") are finding new ways to grow their networks and make them immune to potential shutdowns, including sophisticated fault-tolerance planning to help ensure that their networks can't be easily wiped out.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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A massive telephone service outage is affecting thousands in West Virginia, after FiberNet had a network failure that affected both its primary and backup systems. The problem began at 5:30am and continues to persist five hours later. Hospitals, fire departments, businesses and homes are affected.
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Some members discover itâs tough to erase all their information from the site.
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Amazon's data storage service was down for several hours on Friday, leaving businesses that rely on the service offline.
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After leaving an angry mob of Windows users stranded for weeks with
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InfoWorld - Online attackers have briefly disrupted service on at least two of the 13 &quot;root&quot; servers that are used to direct traffic on the Internet.
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Among the security concerns that have been raised is the possibility of someone being able to cast multiple ballots. Other concerns are about a sudden power outage and whether data would be lost in such a scenario.
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Web sites for President Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee suffered outages for several hours on Wednesday.
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Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections