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Blackberry smartphones are screwed up! There's a massive outage going on in "the Americas" says RIM.
Blackberry smartphones are screwed up! There’s a massive outage going on in “the Americas” says RIM.
“This is an emergency notification regarding the current BlackBerry Infrastructure outage,” RIM support account manager Bryan Simpson said in an e-mail. The message said the outage affected enterprise clients and “users of the Americas network.”
RIM was not immediately available for comment and its e-mail gave no estimate on when service may be restored or how many individuals could be affected.
Rut-roh, Shaggy!
UPDATE 1-RIM notifies of “critical” BlackBerry outage [Reuters] (Thanks, Mexifinn!)
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