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Blackberry Network is Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Brian writes "According to CNET and others, "A system failure at Research In Motion has affected BlackBerry users in the Western Hemisphere, a news channel reported on its Web site late on Tuesday. The infrastructure failed on Tuesday night, and e-mails were not being delivered to the handheld devices.""

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  1. BES users potentially not affected? by WolfTattoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For what its worth, my employer (in Washington D.C.) has their own Blackberry Enterprise Server (an on-site server that interfaces directly with corporate mail systems), and it appears to be unaffected by this outage.

  2. Re:Man, this isn't good for RIM... by daeg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They have about a half hour to fix it before the stock market opens. From what I've seen, they've already taken a massive hit. I wonder how much of their gain since Oct 2006 they'll lose (They jumped from around $79 to over $130 in the 4th quarter last year).

    They're already down close to $3.60 in pre-market alone. Ouch.

    A hundred thousand angry users plus thousands of angry investors? Someone's got a case of the, uh.. Wednesdays.