I received a new Blackberry Playbook 16Gb tablet today, actually it’s not completely new as it’s two weeks old and was owned by a family member who bought it because prices had been discounted recently here in the UK.  She liked it so much that she decided she’d rather have the 64Gb one and bought [...]

Categories: Hardware

Millions of Skype users have been unable to make calls using the VoIP service since last night after a software issue affected critical parts of its network according to the BBC. Engineers have been working to rectify the problem so that people will be able to use the service over the Christmas period to contact [...]

Categories: The Web

Social networking site Facebook was offline for half an hour yesterday due to an error by a software engineer at the company as reported by the BBC.  The engineer accidentally put internal prototype pages online, including a revamped photos section and new page management features, and the entire website had to be taken offline while [...]

Categories: Facebook

What’s the first thing you do when your Internet connection is not working ? I changed my reasoning from thinking that it was related to my computer to one that assumed the Internet Service Provider was responsible for the outage. Well that’s not 100% true but I know several signs that tell me if it [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Rapidshare.com the popular file hoster is currently unreachable if you use the url. Rumors began to spread like wildfire claiming that Rapidshare servers were taken down by court order, that the police seized Rapidshare servers which was the reason for the unavailability.

Categories: Online Services