MSN's search engine crashed on Thursday afternoon.
A message posted on the site read: "The service is currently unavailable. Our team is working to restore service as quickly as possible. Please try your request again later."
The reason for the outage was not disclosed. Calls to Microsoft, the site's parent company, were not immediately returned.
MSN is vying to cut into the massive lead in the search engine category held by Google.
"Drivers following the instructions of their satellite navigation systems to a village called Crackpot are being directed to the top of a 100ft cliff, it was reported," according to a news article on Yahoo. "The glitch means motorists are being sent along an unclassified track on the edge of a sheer cliff edge." The road, in North Yorkshire, is described as steep and twisty. Several vehicles … Read more
Who isn't sick of all the invites to join someone's network on Friendster, LinkedIn and others? So it's no surprise that some people turned their annoyance into humor, as Wired News reports on Wednesday. Thus the three new sites geared for people who are sick of being befriended: Snubster, whose frowning face logo is a spoof of Friendster's smiley face, Isolatr, which "helps you find where other people are not," and Introvertster, "an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harrassing you online."
As it watches traffic mushroom, video upload site YouTube went offline for about an hour on Wednesday starting at about 10 a.m. PDT.
Company spokeswoman Julie Supan said during a phone interview that she was unaware of any problems with the site. But minutes later, the company posted a note on its front door.
"We are currently rolling out new changes to the site," the note read. "We'll be back as soon as we figure this out."
Supan didn't mention any planned construction or outage to the site during the phone interview.
Teenagers … Read more
After five years in print, Elle Girl will stop the presses and publish exclusively on the Internet to better target its audience, according to a report in Ad Age. Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., its parent company, plans to publish online and mobile content to reach the teen girls of its demographic.
With the rising number of teens online, the move seems to be a no-brainer. It's further evidence that companies targeting a younger generation need to reach them where they spend most time.
Video upload site YouTube.com has received $8 million in funding from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, the companies announced Wednesday.
This latest round of funding comes five months after Sequoia invested $3.5 million into YouTube, a site that has grown rapidly by building an online community where a mixture of homemade and professionally produced video clips are presented.
"The additional capital will be used to advance the company??s rapid growth, expand sales and marketing efforts," the company said in a statement, adding that the money will also go to helping the company expand its data … Read more
According to Thom's Web site, the official signing was Webcast at 9 p.m. U.K. time on April 3, 2006 and was "the first Webcast signing in major record label history."
The Scottish singer/guitarist has attracted fans with her live Webcam concerts from her basement in London.
"Anyone wanting to come to the venue physically and not watch it on the Web, please note that the room capacity is a maximum of 10 … Read more
Apple Computer has released an upgrade to the Tiger operating system that fixes some bugs and offers some modest performance enhancements.
Apple said in an e-mail message on Monday that the updates to Tiger (the new version is called 10.4.6) fix problems with printing to wireless printers, quotations in the Mail application, and exporting image data in Aperture.
The update is available for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macintoshes.
The confusion about whether AOL stands for America Online or American Online is forever over. From now on, the company will officially go by its widely used acronym.
Most people have referred to the Web media company as AOL for a long time and Monday's name change was expected for some time.
Time Warner's Internet unit also announced that it's moving from a corporation to a limited liability company.
"Our company long ago accomplished the mission implied by our old name. We literally got America online," Jon Miller, chairman and chief executive of AOL told … Read more
The managers at Dude Corp. should expect a visit from their OSHA representative in due time--assuming the government tracks animated fiction.
The killer fans, ejector-seat Aeron chairs and unsecured ice-skating rinks depicted on these four short videos by Rubberductions in London show a typical day at the apocryphal Dude Corp. in all its gory glory. They're also an excellent example of the type of video that's expected to appeal to mobile-phone users.
Phone carriers and moviemakers are getting ready for the advent of mobile video, which is already common in some parts of the world. Participants in a … Read more
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