A poorly tested software upgrade withered the BlackBerry email system Wednesday, the device’s maker said last night.

You can read all the hot and heavy prose about system caches and failover processes in the NYT article at the bottom of the post because we’re certainly not going to waste our precious morning trying to make it sound interesting. — BEN POPKEN

R.I.M. Offers a Reason for BlackBerry Failure [NYT]
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