Customers accustomed to booking flights online on American Airlines’ web site were greeted witha crashed website yesterday afternoon for at least an hour.

The company spokesman, Tim Wagner, said that network issues shut down the airlines’ website from 3pm CDT to 4pm CDT.

Meanwhile, hackers attacked Comcast.net late Wednesday and brought down its website and email service, routing it to another website. The attack was reportedly to have been carried out by two hackers bragging that they have “roXed Comcast.”

Originally posted on May 30, 2008 @ 7:24 am

This service ‘sounds’ so 90’s but it must be a service worth launch. Hostopia.com announced the launch of a private labeled, wholesale fax-to-email service that telecoms and other service providers can sell to their small business customers. Also known as “IP fax” in the communications services market, fax-to-email services allow a user to send or receive facsimile messages from their computer– typically within their preferred email application such as Microsoft Outlook. The benefit to this is having the ability to send or receive fax messages without the expense and inconvenience of owning a physical fax machine and additional phone line.

Hostopia’s fax-to-email service has suggested retail prices for service providers starting at US$9.99 per month, which allows for 300 send or received pages. Hostopia’s wholesale model is structured to provide at least 40% gross margin to the telecom service provider who retails the service.

Originally posted on May 11, 2008 @ 9:07 am