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Florence out of Music
Now before anyone panics Florence from "Florence and the Machine" is not out of the music game, shes just been temporally removed by doctors orders.
You'll understand what I mean in a minute.
Here's the story.
The singer Florence Welch from "Florence and the Machine" has had to pull out of two European festivals after losing her voice.
Florence went on Twitter to announce that doctors have told her to rest her voice after she felt something "snap", it is unclear as to whether this was during a performance or in practises.
She followed this by returning to the social networking site to thank fans for their support.
The singer recently performed at Radio 1's Hackney Weekend, which it is speculated to be where things started to go wrong for her.
She has apologised on her website for having to cancel further gigs.
She made a statement to the media saying "I'm so sorry to all the fans, I was desperate to still perform, but was told without question not to, so as not to do permanent damage."
What interests me about this story though is that Florence Welch is not the only singer to have had voice problems within her time in the music industry, never mind recently, last year singer Adele had to cancel numerous appearances due to a haemorrhage on her vocal cords, in simple terms damaging them.
Florence + The Machine are booked to appear at other festivals this summer, including a headline performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago this August, and hopefully Florence will have recovered her voice by then to return to perform the gig.
The band may also get their first number one this Sunday with their single Spectrum after performing well in this weeks midweek charts, so we will see on that one.
Sorry this story is quite short but here's a nice picture of Florence on her way to an event:
O2 Outage
As many people may know O2 the mobile phone company suffered from server problems on Wednesday and continuing on to today, effecting a lot of mobile phone users not only on O2 mobiles but on Tescos and GiffGaff as well, because they all use the same masts.
I've chosen this story because it effected both me and Gemma yesterday and mostly last night.
Here's the story.
O2 has described the recent connection problems as a "Network Fault".
There have been few details have been given about what has caused the issues to so many users.
O2 representatives said "We can confirm that the problem with our mobile service is due to a fault with one of our network systems, which has meant some mobile phone numbers are not registering correctly on our network,", the numbers affected seemed to be mostly the Tescos and GiffGaff users.
It is not clear how many of O2's 23 million customers were hit by the fault but the operator said the problem was not based on geography (a specific place) beacuse across the country some were still able to connect at the same location as others who cannot.
As with most situations both consumers and businesses have sent messages via Twitter to complain about the issue, here's a couple.
Joanne Clarkson from Newcastle said "Being the mother of a child with special needs I need my phone. Until this is fixed I will have to stay home so I can be contacted by my landline if the school needs me,".
Chris Benson, owner of Crystal IT services based in Barry, Wales said "It's a little difficult to direct our workforce, contractors or suppliers when they all have to rely on landlines." meaning it had effected his work and business.
The widespread issues began "at lunchtime" yesterday which meant many lost voice and data services.
In a statement today the firm said: "We can confirm that our 2G network service has now been restored. Customers who were affected should now be able to make and receive calls. Our 3G service is starting to restore and customers should expect to see a gradual return of data services as the day progresses.".
So at the moment services are partially restored, and the company is advising customers still affected by the outage to switch their mobile phones off and on to reset their devices so that they will hopefully connect to their 2G services for the time being.
Having the 2G network back up means that customers should now be able to make and receive calls, and for others can also send and receive texts again, if you think about it its like going back to the old networks for the old black and white display mobile phones.
Customers have been told they can keep track of developments via O2's service status page (put in a link so you can get there from here).
Here's the news coverage from the BBC talking to a representative of Gizmodo.com:
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