It looks like Skype is going through some growing pains (or acquisition pains for that matter) as of late with another outage coming just a couple weeks after the last. This time it appears to affect only European users, however. On Skype’s heartbeat monitor they’ve acknowledged that “a small number of users may be affected by this ongoing problem and that the company is looking into it”. Hopefully things pick up for the better. Nothing kills a...

Looks like Verizon is having some growing pains once again. We’ve received a few tips that LTE coverage in the currently live markets across the country is rather spotty. No matter how many times you reboot your phone, that little “4G LTE” isn’t going to come back. Just give it up, man. We’ve reached out to Verizon for any information regarding the latest outage. We’ve also received a few reports of previously down cities (from last...

If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Gmail users logging in this morning only to find missing items and/or being greeted as if it’s the first time you’ve logged in, you’re not alone. A check with Google’s apps status dashboard confirms that the email provider and search giant is in fact having some pretty serious issues. If you have offline copies of your email, consider yourself one step ahead of the game. Otherwise, it’s all...

Your Berry not going off every 30 seconds bugging the hell out of you? Can’t figure out where Twitter or Google is soooooo slow today? Then take a second to stop by Netdowntime, the new one stop shop for all gadget/network related issues. Created by good friend Eric Calouro from Erictic, NetDowntime has the ability to help everyone, not just geeks. Really, I’m surprised no one has brought something like this to market yet. The concept is simple but...

To many people, bitching about a video game’s DRM that resorts to requiring a constant internet connection seems stupid and like a waste of time. In the grander scheme of things — it is. But, if you focus on the core technological aspect of it, DRM is not a solution but a “fuel” to the piracy fire, only driving scores more towards paying less and less for products and services. Ubisoft as of late has found out just how much the tech crowd hates DRM...