Edinburgh IT Support company Consider IT reports a few of its clients were left without Internet this morning when BT suffered a major business broadband problem.
BT Business’ Twitter feed said the problem was fixed at 11.30 GMT, and advised users to restart their routers to get connected.
One user of TheRegister.co.uk posts:
Had this this morning.
At first, it was the ADSL Authentication failing on two ADSL2+ lines we have. That went away quite quickly, though, and has been
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Some Edinburgh customers told us they had been affected.
Virgin Media has said that services around the UK are now fully restored following a nationwide failure.
Virgin Media apologised to their customers for Tuesday’s blip and said that the issue had now been fully resolved.
The problems arise just as Virgin Media plans to increase speeds to most of its customers. Over the next 18 months, Virgin Media plans to double most of its customers internet speeds.
If you have …
BT has confirmed that a power outage has led to thousands of its customers being offline nationwide. The broadband network went offline this morning, with BT announcing the issue via Twitter.
BT’s customer services team, BT Care, confirmed that there was an ongoing problem with BT Broadband connections. “We’re aware that a number of you are unable to get online … We’re sorry about this & will keep you updated.”
Customers have reported problems from as far afield as Belfast, …
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Consider IT are pleased to announce that we have now become authorised resellers of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools for businesses. Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs.
With Gmail (including Google email security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated IM, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs …
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You’d think the head of Facebook would have tip-top security on all his accounts on Facebook, but you’d be wrong.
Mark’s fan page, which has nearly three million ‘likes’, seemingly posted a message calling for Facebook to transform into a ‘social business’.
However, it was neither Mark nor his PR team who posted the status, which was swiftly removed (but not before over a thousand people ‘liked’ it).
While it’s unknown whether the hacker actually did anything more sophisticated than …
Last year we moved from the Firefox browser to Google Chrome; and boy is it fast! One thing we have missed though is the ability to subscribe to various RSS feeds to get the latest news and updates from our various favourite websites. In Firefox, we could do this by just clicking on the RSS logo and asking Firefox to dock the feed onto the top navigation bar as shown here:
We really missed this functionality in Chrome, so asked …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced he will go on medical leave from his position. Jobs had surgery in 2004 for pancreatic cancer, which medical experts have said explains the liver transplant.
“My family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy,” said Jobs.
He did not reveal specifics about why he had been given time off.
“At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. …
