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Did you experience a Siri outage?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 28th, 2011)

We've seen a few minor outages for Siri since its debut, but those were minor blips compared to what appears to have been a more widespread, longer lasting outage that took place earlier today in the US, Europe and South Korea (according to Electric Pig -- we can attest to seeing an error message ...

Original Siri service is dead, long live Apple Siri

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2011)

If you scoffed at the news that Apple's Siri would only be available on the iPhone 4S, thinking that you could just use the standard Siri app that was still available on the App Store, then scoff no more. The freely available Siri app has been removed from the App Store completely, and as ...

Apple Store outage related to larger 'net issues?

by Steven Sande (Aug 17th, 2011)

As tweeted by TUAW earlier this morning, the online Apple Store was down for hours and finally came back up a few minutes ago. Although we'd love to be able to announce a new Mac Pro, the iPhone 5, and an iPad 3, it appears that nothing has changed in the store, and the outage might have been ...

Cydia back up after multi-day outage

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 25th, 2011)

Good news for the jailbreak community as Cydia is now back up and running. Along with many other companies, the alternative app store for iOS devices has been down for several days due to Amazon's highly-publicized E2C Cloudfront server outage. During this downtime, Cydia suspended all ...

MobileMe DOA?

by Mel Martin (Oct 12th, 2009)

Looks like it. You can't access the main MobileMe page. Apple says this on their MobileMe support page:" MobileMe members are intermittently unable to access MobileMe services. Mail is available via a desktop email application, or Mail on iPhone or iPod touch. Normal service will be restored ASAP. ...

Pingdom posts insight into latest Mobile Me outage

by Christina Warren (Nov 4th, 2008)

Despite the server-side updates Apple detailed last week, the company's beleaguered Mobile Me service is still problematic for many users. Yesterday, we received a number of e-mails complaining that Apple's Me.com domain was reporting 404 errors. Today, the fine folks at Pingdom.com (which monitors ...

Are you affected by MobileMe mail outage?

by Giles Turnbull (Jul 21st, 2008)

What's up with MobileMe email? In recent days we've been hearing from a lot of very unhappy MobileMe subscribers. They're unhappy because their email accounts have been inaccessible. David told us: "Some MobileMe mail users have been without mail access for four days straight now." At the time of ...

MobileMe browser requirements page found

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 2008)

Joining in on the conversation about tonight's .Mac outage, reader Chad sent us a link to a page he discovered on .Mac. He said that while trying to access his .Mac service on his iPhone, he was redirected to a MobileMe browser requirements page. One of the suspicious things on the page is the fact ...

.Mac down

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 2008)

Some readers are reporting that they cannot login to their .Mac service. Apple is currently reporting that the Web Pages are down at mac.com. "Members cannot access the www.mac.com website. It will be restored ASAP. Read more for interim solutions," Apple notes on the support website. Could this ...

Readers report .Mac service outages

by Michael Rose (Jun 17th, 2008)

We've gotten several reports this morning that sections of the .Mac service, including web galleries, webmail and the www.mac.com page, are offline today. Email to the .Mac domain appears to be flowing but there's no ETA on restoration of the services and no clear picture of exactly what is ...

.Mac services down Monday evening

by David Chartier (Sep 19th, 2005)

Looks like all .Mac services are going to be down for four hours this evening, from 7 pm till 11 pm PST. Does this get anyone else's gears turning? I'm not usually one to help churn up rumors, but with 10.4.3 being recently seeded to developers, as well as iChat and .Mac upgrade speculation flying ...

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