BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America

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.

Comments

Really? What was the name of the "malware"?

[SuperKendall]

Malware gets into the iPhone app store, too, despite Apple reviewing stuff.

What "malware" was that?

Applications cannot look at other application data or alter the system. So just what is that "malware" supposed to do? What was the application?