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.

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First post!

[GameboyRMH]

My Blackberry still wo$% NO CARRIER

iCloud is focused on DEVICE storage first

[SuperKendall]

Because as we all know, iOS 5 doesn't move almost every single existing feature that iOS has onto the iCloud

What you do't know is what that means. iCloud is there as a serve to help sync data between devices. You could lose iCloud for 50% of the day and probably not notice, since all of your cloud based data would be eventually synchronized.

Many of the iOS5 features added don't use iCloud at all.

Definitely worth mentioning the iPhone 4S, because it totally competes with the Blackberry when it comes to enterprise services and security.

Between VPN, active sync, and remote management support - Yes, yes it does. At least you got one right.

Oh, wait, everything I've said so far is wrong. Oops.

No, just that first thing. Glad to help you.

If you want a phone that can integrate with your existing IT infrastructure, you get a Blackberry or an Android.

Oddly businesses like to communicate and secure devices, which would instead lead to choosing an iOS device as so many have...

You clearly have no idea what is happening in the enterprise space. iOS uptake is huge.