“RIM’s BlackBerry e-mail service was offline earlier today for users across the Europe, Middle East, Africa,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.
“But service has since been restored, according to the company,” Whitney reports. “Research In Motion confirmed the outage in a tweet earlier today and said that services should now be up and running again.”
Whitney reports, “The outage came at the worst possible time — Apple’s new iPhone goes on sale today. RIM has been struggling to win back part of the healthy market share it once owned… This was also the latest in a line of BlackBerry outages. Almost a year ago, more than 10 million BlackBerry customers in Europe and other parts of the world were hit by a outage that lasted several days. Other BlackBerry outages have occurred over the years, including one in 2008, one in 2007, and another in 2006.”
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MacDailyNews Take: DCW’s timing is impeccable.
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Must be from all the RIM customers canceling their service.
RIM happens.
They were tweeting whether to buy the iPhone 5! 😇
When I bought my 4S last year the man in front of me in line was so pissed at RIM he bought an iPhone unsubsidized.
@ MDN = Mad Dogs News
Let’s talk about apple’s crap maps. 😉
You already did – we saw your byline on Reuters.
No – lets talk about Nokia sample shots and liar advertising. Lets also talk about the matching nail polish you got with your Lumia 920.
LOL
Why don’t you guys accept that apple’s map app is a crap???
😉
Gupta,
You should be thankful. We’ve already accepted you as our resident ignoramus.
Lets all hear it for Gupta!