While Operation Chokehold may not be gaining the mass support the organizers would hope for, (so far fans on the Facebook Fan Page are only in the triple digits) it’s nice to see that it’s at least hitting home. AT&T has responded tonight with the typical cookie cutter response your typical uneducated PR team is use to pumping out… We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical forum, but there is nothing amusing about advocating that...
Sick of AT&T’s wasted dollars spent on stupid advertisements, constant complaints on poor network performance being blamed on “faulty hardware”, and voicing attempts to “educate customers”? You’re not alone. Granted most of the iPhone toting crowd will never stumble upon any tech blog, those who do can at least take action. “Operation Chokehold” was coined by the “Fake Steve” (aka Dan Lyons) to highlight...
Yes, the real time king is down yet again. Well, for some that is. According to Twitter’s Status Blog, some users located throughout the world are experiencing connection problems. It’s good to know I’m not going senile. Because of issues with the site, my full attention has been on fixing those problems, not scouring the internet for news goodies — hence the reason I didn’t know if Twitter was down or not. After finally taking a few...
**Update: Microsoft’s pet unicorn works wonders as they announce that “most, if not all” customer data lost during the great Sidekick slaying of ’09 is restored or soon to be. Whew! So, conspiracy or simply mechanical failure mixed with a pinch of human error? **Update 2: A word from a TechCrunch via Microsoft: We have determined that the outage was caused by a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up. We rebuilt...
While there was reported congestion at times on the various cell networks, everything went relatively smoothly. The networks didn’t implode as many thought they possibly could. The four major networks have been preparing for the inauguration for a while now, some started as much as many months ago! There efforts surely helped in what is a historic day in our country run just a little more smoothly. Where you in D.C. today? If so, did you have any problems...
