News tagged with technical glitch

Website address 'revolution' back in motion

The Internet domain name "revolution" was back in action on Tuesday with the agency in charge of website addresses once again taking applications for online neighborhoods breaking the ".com" mold.

Technology / Internet

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ICANN targets May 22 to resume name expansion

(AP) -- The organization behind a major expansion of Internet address suffixes hopes to resume taking proposals on May 22 following a technical glitch that shut down its computer system for weeks. ...

Technology / Internet

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Another delay in domain name expansion

(AP) -- There's another delay in efforts to create hundreds of Internet address suffixes to join ".com" and others in use.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

".Oops": Glitch forces extension for new suffixes

You're probably familiar with ".com" and ".org." How about ".oops"? A technical glitch forced the abrupt shutdown of a system for letting companies and organizations propose new Internet domain name suffixes. The Internet ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Israel denies cyber attack on defence websites

The websites of Israel's military, Mossad and the Shin Bet intelligence services were back online on Monday after being unavailable the previous day due to what officials said was a "server crash."

Technology / Internet

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World's biggest Apple store draws big iPhone crowd

Hundreds of fans including one who had camped out for 10 days whooped for joy as the new iPhone 4S went on sale Friday at the Apple store in London, the US firm's largest outlet on the planet.

Technology / Business

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Endeavour poised for next-to-last US shuttle flight

NASA Sunday readied the space shuttle Endeavour for its final mission with liftoff set for 8:56 am (1256 GMT) Monday on the next-to-last flight for the American shuttle program.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA to know Sunday whether shuttle can fly Monday

(AP) -- Engineers should know Sunday whether Endeavour's six-man crew and their families - including wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - need to stick around for a Monday launch attempt or come back sometime ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

S. Korea bank probed over 'cyber-attack' shutdown

Regulators launched an inquiry on Monday into South Korea's largest banking network after a suspected cyber-attack left many customers unable to access their money for three days.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CeBIT: World's top tech fair opens under a cloud

The world's biggest IT fair opened Tuesday amid concerns over the security of its featured technology -- cloud computing -- after some 150,000 Google email accounts vanished into the ether. ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Site issues cause outage for some Facebook users

(AP) -- Facebook says unspecified site issues caused the social-networking site to be slow or unavailable for some of its 500 million users.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook is up after glitchy afternoon

(AP) -- A technical glitch blocked or slowed access to Facebook for several hours Thursday, unplugging many of the social-networking site's 500 million users from the constant flow of updates from their friends.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technical glitch grounds homemade Danish rocket

The first launch attempt of a homemade rocket built by two Danes failed on Sunday because of a technical glitch, according to Danish media.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Some Internet porn sites in China now accessible

(AP) -- Word leaked out slowly, spread by Web-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn that once was blocked by Chinese government censors was now openly available.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Large Hadron Collider 7 TeV experiment on March 30

(PhysOrg.com) -- With beams routinely circulating in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 TeV, the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, CERN has set the date for the start of the LHC research ...

Physics / General Physics

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