Well, wasn’t that fun? For about two hours, Google and its main services, such as Gmail, Google Docs, and YouTube were down for US East coast users. So, what happened?
Tag: Networking
Is Google down? Users reporting sporadic outages
Coronavirus here, fear there, and now Google is having fits. We’ve had better days. At first, Google didn’t say anything about the problem either on Twitter or the G Suite
Slow Wi-Fi? 8 ways to speed up your home office network
Now that you need your internet connection for work, video-conferencing, and Netflix, it’s time to tune up your home network. latest developments Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemic From
FCC opens up more spectrum to keep mobile phones working during coronavirus pandemic
You may be worried about there being enough internet to go around thanks to the coronavirus pushing us into our homes, but mobile phones are also facing a potential bandwidth
Slow Wi-Fi? 8 ways to boost your home network
Wi-Fi 6 is here: All the new features explained Tonya Hall sits down with Kevin Robinson, vice president of marketing at the Wi-Fi Alliance, to learn more about the newest
Linux Foundation open sources disaster-relief IoT firmware: Project OWL
Why you need to think about what IoT devices employees are connecting to your corporate network Danny Palmer explains to Karen Roby how connected devices are becoming a bigger part
Ready or not, here comes the new Twitter
How to avoid being locked (forever) out of your Twitter account If your Twitter is hacked, it could be gone permanently and Twitter may not help. Here is one user’s
BT will use Ubuntu and OpenStack to power 5G transformation
Political uncertainty forces UK mobile networks to make own choices in 5G rollout While the race for Number 10 continues, the UK’s mobile networks are gambling that the new Prime
Can’t log in to Google? Services reported down for some users
The mysterious outage that knocked out EU’s Galileo GPS services for a week Galileo Initial Services have been restored, days after an equipment malfunction caused the outage. On Monday afternoon
How to stream live NFL football games in 2019
Streaming killed the Blu-Ray Samsung is discontinuing its Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray player lines. That’s lousy news for people who love older TV shows and movies. It used to be
Mirantis has new telecom edge cloud offering
2020 is the year for the 5G network market, report Gartner says the worldwide market will spike in value as businesses gear up in preparation of 5G rollouts. If 5G
Linux Foundation exec believes edge computing will be more important than cloud computing
Edge computing: Will it replace or enhance the cloud? Suppose thousands of small data centers you could fit in the back of a truck could replace massive, hyperscale cloud data
Fast, affordable internet from the sky is almost here
Amazon enters the space-broadband race Amazon’s big internet plan: 3,236 satellites to beam faster, cheaper web to millions. Today, if you want fast internet, your choices are, well, your cable
Goodbye SMS texting, hello RCS
Au revoir WhatsApp! The French government launches in-house IM app French government open-sources in-house-made end-to-end encryption IM app named Tchap. For years, we’ve relied on short message service (SMS) for
Public cloud providers’ network performance wildly varies
Top ways to manage cloud complexity Tonya Hall speak with David Linthicum, chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting, to learn exactly what cloud complexity is, the threats surrounding it,
