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Amazon's Cloud Crash Is Over, But the Talking About It Isn't
The big crash of Amazon’s cloud that brought down hundreds of other Internet companies that rely upon it is over. Now everyone who was affected in one way or another is comparing notes on how they coped or didn’t. And for cloud providers not named Amazon, there’s going to be an obvious business opportunity.
Skype Postmortem: Overloaded Servers and Desktop Bugs Brought Us Down
Two problems conspired in a strange confluence of events to knock millions of users off Skype last week.
Skype Is Working, No Explanation Yet for What Happened
After two days of struggling with an embarrassing pre-holiday system failure, Skype appears to be running again today. The company is offering free service to customers, but hasn’t yet explained what happened.
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Yahoo Up, But What Brought It Down? [Updated]
Yahoo’s homepage is back up.
An update from Yahoo PR:
“For a brief period this afternoon, Yahoo.com was inaccessible to some users. We have identified the issue and are working to correct it immediately. We know that this may have caused some inconvenience and we apologize to our users who might have been affected.”
No word yet on what caused the outage, although sources close to the situation said it was a crash caused by a routine code push.
There were some odd occurrences on Yahoo’s domain name system during the outage, but it appears to be cleared up. WWDC 2010: Steve Jobs on the App Store
In response to a question from Walt Mossberg at last week’s D8 conference addressing criticism about the App Store’s rejection rate, CEO Steve Jobs made a point of noting that Apple supports HTML5, a completely open platform, and that the company supports its own App Store, which is a curated platform. He reiterated that notion in his keynote today: “Guess what? Ninety-five percent of all apps submitted are approved within seven days.”Three Tesla Employees Killed in Plane Crash
Three employees of electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc. died Wednesday when their small plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in California’s Silicon Valley, causing a major power outage in the city of Palo Alto but injuring no one on the ground.
BlackBerry Figures That Maybe There’s Something to This Twitter Thing, After All
Are you a BlackBerry user who wants to Twitter, too? Hang tight: Research in Motion promises you’ll have an official app sometime soon.
Entrepreneurs "Tweet" Their Way Through Crises
Twitter has turned out to be a useful tool for some small businesses coping with customer-service or public-relations crises. The social-media service–where users send short “tweets” to followers who have signed up to receive the messages–came in handy for Innovative Beverage Group Holdings Inc., whose drankbeverage.com site crashed last month after a surge in traffic following a segment on Fox News for the company’s so-called relaxation beverage, which contains “calming” ingredients like valerian root and melatonin.
This Just In From the N.S. Sherlock Institute for the Bleeding Obvious…
…drivers who text while at the wheel are more likely to have accidents than those paying attention to the road ahead. In fact, according to a new $6 million dollar study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, texting while driving increases your chances of crashing by 23 times.
Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller Out. Here’s the Internal Memo.
Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller, who has run one of the Web’s biggest finance sites for the last nine years, is leaving the company at the end of the summer. No replacement has been named. Spanfeller’s departure comes amid a flurry of bad news for finance publications.