Hurricane Irene was thankfully not as devastating as it could have been. However, there were still some services outages that resulted from the pouring rain. Some Comcast customers for example experienced a loss of cable, internet and phone service for days. After some confusion, it seems that Comcast will credit at least some accounts affected by Irene.

As we reported in our Twitter feed, Google users had to put up with yet another service interruption when Google News went down for about 2 hours this morning starting at 8:30am EDT. Users from all over the world reported the outage. Some got a “503 Server Error” while others were able to access the more »

Just a quick notice: looks like AT&T is experiencing difficulties with data service nationwide. Word from on high is “they are working on it”. Interestingly, five states are immune from the data outage. AT&T Business Customer Service can be reached at 800-222-0400 or at their site.