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RIM Releases Reason for Blackberry Outage

Posted by Zonk on from the isn't-testing-a-requirement dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to BBC News, RIM has announced that the cause of this week's network failure for the Blackberry wireless e-mail device was an insufficiently tested software upgrade. Blackberry said in a statement that the failure was trigged by 'the introduction of a new, non-critical system routine' designed to increase the system's e-mail holding space. The network disruption comes as RIM faces a formal probe by the US financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission, over its stock options."

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  1. What really happened... by Mockylock · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is all just technical jargon for, "I tripped over the power cord. MY BAD."

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  2. Non-critical? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is obviously some new definition of the word "non-critical" with which I was previously unfamiliar.

    bkd

  3. Buying time by faloi · · Score: 5, Funny

    The irony is that the SEC couldn't do any more investigating during the outage because they had no email access!

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  4. Ah ha! by Grashnak · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that is where the missing 5 million White House emails went! Sneaky Canadians!

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