A lot of Verizon's email customers woke up to find that their service was down. For many, the problem persisted for 8 hours.

Some users lost service for about half an hour on Monday

Company reports 'significant' number of users affected.

The company said its online streaming was affected by issues in Web services provided by Amazon in the U.S.

Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media.

The company briefly reported the problem had been solved before the site went down again.

A software firm has also filed a trademark infringement case for RIM's use of the BBX name.

Backup system also didn't work, RIM explains.

Whether they are cloud service outages or natural disasters, cloud computing can be both a nightmare or a savior to your IT organization: either it halts your business operation or loses your data, or it allows you to continue operate your business as workloads are switched to or backed up by physically safer data centers.

One of Singapore's biggest banks suffered a major IT outage on Monday that took down its computer systems for seven hours.

Twitter is recovering from an unspecified technical problem that affected the microblogging service's main site and its APIs (application programming interfaces) for about one hour late Tuesday morning.

Users in China had brief technical problems accessing Google.com and Google.com.hk.

T-Mobile USA has restored voice and data services to users after an eight-hour outage that affected nearly 1.7 million subscribers.

A power outage in parts of downtown San Francisco Tuesday affected office computers, lights and a hosting company for several Web sites.