BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @03:43AM from the on-the-third-day-god-created-sigsegv dept.

iONiUM writes "With increasing pressure on RIM to catch up to the new phones, and the upcoming release of the iPhone 4S, could this three day outage of BlackBerry's service be a nail in the coffin? From the article 'The service disruptions are the worst since an outage swept north America two years ago, and come as Apple prepares to put on sale its already sold-out iPhone 4S on Friday.'" This is the same outage as was reported Monday. RIM has released a few details on what's happened: a failed software upgrade brought the system down, and, after repairing the first issue, the backlog of traffic overwhelmed their network infrastructure taking things down a second time.

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Oblig. by Rik+Sweeney · 2011-10-12 03:47 · Score: 4, Funny

What did one Blackberry owner say to the other?
Nothing!

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Ghost in the machine by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-12 03:47 · Score: 2, Funny

Clearly, there is a ghost in the machine. And his name is Steve.
Re:I would sell the stock by mu51c10rd · 2011-10-12 03:55 · Score: 4, Funny

they pull a major fat rabbit out of their ass
Blackberry has some weird apps for their phones...
Re:Canadian Technology! by tripleevenfall · 2011-10-12 04:12 · Score: 3, Funny

"The power of the force has stopped you, you hosers."