Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites

Gmail outage blamed on capacity miscalculation
Google's nearly two-hour Gmail outage was the result of a cascading failure in which too much traffic was directed to servers that had recently been reconfigured.

IBM's Power charge continues
IBM's lineup of servers built around its Power microprocessor continue to be one of the standouts among the systems that it sells.

Microsoft: Online shift is more than even Exchange
The software maker is looking to keep its lead in the e-mail space even as more companies opt for services over running their own servers.

Another outage hits Twitter
Less than a week after a denial-of-service attack knocked it offline, Twitter's servers went down again. What gives this time?

Denial of service attack downed Gawker Media
The attack was launched at Consumerist, a blog that Gawker no longer owns but which is still hosted on the same servers.