"Service outage" refers to a temporary disruption or interruption in the availability or functioning of a particular service, such as internet, electricity, or a website. It means that the service is not working or accessible for a period of time.
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Delivery of alerts may be delayed for various reasons, including
service outages affecting your phone, wireless or Internet provider; technology failures; and system capacity limitations.
Compared to the 70 million subscribers affected by the recent
BlackBerry service outage, the number of pi $ $ ed of PlayBook owners is pretty small (probably around 250k... and the number of active daily PlayBook owners is probably half that).
The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive
service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.
Snapchat
saw service outage yesterday as users flocked to create Bitmoji cartoon avatars of themselves.
But, in true Coinbase fashion, the launch was mired with
service outages as the price of the new addition fluctuated wildly.
Later on in the week, RIM CIO publically apologises for the
recent service outage of the BlackBerry services and Apple released a new operating system for iPhone handsets, iPad tablet and other devices.
This is just the latest hiccup for the iPhone, as T - Mobile devices
experienced service outages after updating to iOS 10 and early downloads of that update bricked some handsets.
I've never really cared
for service outage stories, such as the big one that hit Rogers's wireless network on Wednesday.
Its business potential developed more slowly, and the company appeared to be floundering as recently as three years ago, when it was riven by management turmoil and frequently crippled
by service outages.
It's effectively a peace offering for XBL gamers who experienced
service outages over the Christmas period.
This came in handy during a
prolonged service outage starting in 2014: While the engineering team worked to untangle the technical issues, other departments rushed to help, pitching in with customer support calls and rescheduling other projects.
NationBuilder began experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Monday, resulting in a
full service outage from 1:07 pm to 5:35 pm PT, and intermittent outages through Tuesday morning.
The Wastewater Treatment Plant suffered a
temporary service outage after the plant's pumps were submerged under rainwater.
When you make the free call to 811 a few days before you dig, you'll help prevent unintended consequences such as injury to you or your family, damage to your property,
utility service outages to the entire neighborhood and potential fines and repair costs.
According to RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie, they currently have no plans whatsoever to offer more compensation for the 3
day service outage.
Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that it will offer Blackberry users a selection of smartphone applications to help ease the pain after a
global service outage prevented users from emailing and texting for several days last week.
By changing the architecture, RIM no longer needs to worry
about service outage blocking people's access to emails and destroying their brand.
A
data service outage affecting some BlackBerry users nationally this week seems to have left them angry but not deeply concerned about the future of BlackBerry's maker, Research In Motion Ltd..
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when service outages or interruptions are happening.
The October week -
long service outage that affected users in various countries also cost the company $ 50 milliion.
The platform holder said: «The Xbox
Live service outage on 13 April resulted from networking misconfiguration during routine maintenance and was in no way related to false claims of hacking the service.»
This also happened on a Double XP weekend for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 so can be sure that plenty of Xbox Live members will be upset with
intermittent service outages.
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The FBI is also investigating whether the same group is responsible for the
weekend service outage of the Sony PlayStation Network.
We give employees fast and secure access to sensitive business information, and ensure email keeps running in the event of a
primary service outage.
Dispatched customer information marketing crews to neighborhoods of pending upgrades to provide distribution of collaterals
regarding service outages and interruptions.
Co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis opened a major RIM developers conference here with a humble acknowledgement that the company stumbled with a recent
BlackBerry service outage and quickly shifted to talk of an upbeat future.
According to a report in the New York Post, at least one
service outage over the weekend forced back - up systems to kick in so emergency calls could go through.
Assist technicians and supervisors in
service outages as well as other system problems and special projects.
Delivery of alerts may be delayed for various reasons, including
service outages affecting your phone, wireless or Internet provider; technology failures; and system capacity limitations.
The next most significant news came when Research In Motion announced compensation for the
recent service outage to their users, which resulted in the intermittent loss of email, web browsing and the BlackBerry messenger service.
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The service outage was not caused by external influences.
In addition to live - streaming product launches (à la Apple) and other corporate events, the technology might be harnessed as a crisis control mechanism in the face of a product recall or
service outage; for celebrity and social influencer takeovers; or even as a means of leveraging FOMO via flash sales, contests and giveaways.
A leading cable operator in Europe needed a solution that would reduce errors and lessen the time it took agents to manually re-set their customers» set - top boxes after
a service outage.
Advocates from the Riders Alliance on Thursday launched a weekly contest to determine which New Yorker has the absolute worst subway commute — from delays to
service outages or mid-trip train breakdowns.
That solution: diverting some Amtrak trains to Grand Central Terminal for the duration of the repairs, which those lawmakers — New York state senator Neil Breslin, along with New York state assembly members John McDonald and Patricia Fahy — say will help mitigate the delays,
service outages, and general stress that track closures will almost certainly cause.
Among the information requested from the Internet providers was quality of service reviews, customer complaints and
service outages.
«Autofusion has hosted our online used car inventory over the past 12 years and we've been quite pleased with their ability to host this service without
any service outages, willingness to support ongoing program change requests and overall adaptability.
O2 began trialling VoIP technology, whilst Research In Motion offered compensation for
their service outage.
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the fading Blackberry devices are giving away a handful of application worth almost $ 100 as compensation for the Blackberry
service outage that had rendered a lot of the devices all around the world useless for quite some time.