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BlackBerry outage hits Americas as RIM admits bafflement [Updated]

Chris Davies, Oct 12th 2011 Discuss [10]

RIM it is still uncertain what is causing the BlackBerry server fault that has left many users without BBM, email or web access for a third day running, the company’s software and services chief has admitted today. Rory O’Neill, VP of the affected systems at the Canadian company, told paidContent that – while RIM’s official statement yesterday suggested engineers had a grip on the situation – in fact they’re still trying to figure out exactly what is happening. Meanwhile, similar BlackBerry outages have now been reported in the US and Canada.

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BlackBerry outage hits third day while iMessage threat circles

Chris Davies, Oct 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

BlackBerry network services remain offline this morning, the third day of issues affecting BlackBerry Messenger, email and web services on the popular smartphone platform. In a statement issued yesterday, RIM apologized for the further downtime and blamed a malfunctioning failover system, explaining that "as a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible." Read The Full Story

BlackBerry Playbook RadioShack price reduction in effect

Chris Burns, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [10]

It's time again to reduce the price of a tablet PC, ladies and gentlemen, and today it's the BlackBerry PlayBook at RadioShack. Starting immediately and running through November 5th, 2011, RadioShack will be offering the PlayBook for $279.99, though watch out, there's two different deals going on! Details below! Meanwhile remember that this is one of the relatively few tablets on the market to be running the 1GHz Dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4430 processor, and RIM is backing it all the way through the future. Read The Full Story

RIM details BlackBerry service failures

Rue Liu, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [2]

Earlier today, we reported that RIM apologized for the BlackBerry service outage experienced by users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and other parts of the world. And now, although many are still without service, the company has issued a statement with a more detailed response as to what caused the issue. Read The Full Story

RIM investor dissent grows amid embarrassing service failures

Chris Davies, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

Dissent among RIM investors grows, with vocal management critic Jaguar claiming support for the Canadian company being sold or broken up has increased in the space of a month. The commercial bank is demanding a "transformative leader" in place of the current co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, Reuters reports, and says it has the backing of 8-percent of investor backers, a rise from the roughly 5-percent Jaguar said it had back in September. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry services crash again after short-lived repair [Update: RIM speaks]

Chris Davies, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [13]

RIM's BlackBerry Messenger sevices, as well as email and other services, have gone offline again in the UK and elsewhere, despite having only been restored a few hours ago after yesterday's outage. As before, RIM is yet to acknowledge the problem, though according to carrier O2 the company is aware that the system has failed again. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry services go offline as servers fail

Chris Davies, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [3]

RIM's BlackBerry handsets have been left cut off from the web, email and BBM after an apparent server crash took phones in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offline. The fault began at roughly 11am today, and according to the BBC is being attributed to a datacenter in Slough, UK, responsible for the regions affected. RIM UK has said that it is "investigating" the problem, though has issued no timescale for fixing it. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry Tag promises NFC sharing in BB7

Shane McGlaun, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [0]

Never fear, Blackberry Tag isn't another fail-laced tablet or other device coming from RIM. Tag is a new tech that users of Blackberry smartphones will be able to use to trade and share data with other Blackberry users. Tag will be coming in BB7 and is the name of the NFC sharing tech RIM has been working on. It's worth noting that Tag is subject to network certifications. That would mean a chance that Tag is on some networks and not others. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry QNX platform name leaked as BBX

Rue Liu, Oct 7th 2011 Discuss [7]

RIM's QNX-based next-gen platform for its BlackBerry smartphones and tablets may be called BlackBerry X or BBX. The name was leaked by a slide shown during a presentation at the QNX Auto Summit Japan 2011 conference, which was focused on in-car entertainment systems developed on the QNX framework. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook OS update only adds new Adobe Flash Player

Rue Liu, Oct 6th 2011 Discuss [1]

RIM today released an important BlackBerry Tablet OS update for its PlayBook to version 1.07.3312. The free update brings the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to address some potential security issues. There have been no known reports of PlayBooks being affected by the Adobe Flash issue, but it's recommended to upgrade to be safe. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle originally based on CEO Bezos’ BlackBerry

Rue Liu, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [7]

There's no doubt the original Kindle, although popular, wasn't all that attractive. It had an angular design with a split keyboard and an odd scroll wheel. And now we know why. According to the NY Times, who spoke with an early Kindle hardware designer, that original version was so ugly because it was modeled after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' BlackBerry smartphone. Read The Full Story