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Outages can be more costly than a $2 fee

Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless found itself the target of a frenzied online crusade last week after it announced it would start charging an extra $2 to pay a bill one time online or by phone. The

BlackBerry service now "fully restored"

The BlackBerry outage that started on Monday and, at one point, spanned five continents is officially over. So said RIM's ( NASDAQ: RIMM ) co-CEOs at a status update on Thursday. During a conference

Amazon apologizes for cloud outage, promises to do better

Amazon has revealed that the lengthy outage at its data center in Northern Virginia was the result of a network configuration error when performing a network capacity upgrade. It caused Amazon's

Network outages cost U.S. businesses $1.7 billion in 2010

More than 25 percent of enterprise IT systems were hit by outages of four hours or longer last year, resulting in losses amounting to $1.7 billion dollars last year. The survey was conducted by IT

Microsoft apologizes to businesses for outages

Microsoft's ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) Business Productivity Online Suite customers received an apology from the company for service outages that took place in August and September. The BPOS offerings include

Post mortem on network crash at Singapore's largest bank

Back in July, DBS Group, the largest bank in Singapore, experienced an outage that lasted seven hours and disrupted banking services at ATMs, branch offices and websites. InformationWeek's Bob Evans

RIM experiences second outage in less than a week

Research in Motion experienced its second outage in several days. The latest occurring yesterday and impacting users in North and South America, RIM confirmed. The problems prohibited users from