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Your Blackberry Isn't Working

Your Blackberry Isn't Working

WNBC is reporting a major Blackberry outage that affects 100% of the Blackberries in the US.

174 Minutes On Hold With Blackberry, With Urination

This chick is on hold for two hours and seventeen minutes waiting for a Crackberry rep to pick up.

Cingular CSR Admits Service Sucks, Keeps Customer

Cingular CSR Admits Service Sucks, Keeps Customer

It’s strangely refreshing to get a casual and honest CSR on the other end of the phone. Instead of binder-read lip service that always translates to “We appreciate your concerns, so go fuck yourself” the opposite approach is placating. A lot of time, people who call customer service lines just want an admission that there’s a problem, for someone to listen to them: outside of that, they tend to be pretty patient about resolution as long as they don’t feel like they are being given the cold shoulder or patronized.

T-Mobile Juggles Lies For Sales

T-Mobile Juggles Lies For Sales

Mat has a sad story. He’s a gentleman variety show performer (pictured) who travels throughout Europe during the summer and wanted a good way to stay in contact with his wife.

Crybaby NTP Finally Settles Blackberry Patent Dispute

Crybaby NTP Finally Settles Blackberry Patent Dispute

Slightly old news, but the stone-faced-stand-off-to-first-blink between Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) and NTP over vague patents to send email from portable devices is finally over. Which is great news for the consumers who’ve been nervously caught in the crossfire.

Morning Deals Round Up

• We continue to be baffled by Amazon’s ridiculously low prices on cookware recently, like this Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Stainless 6-Quart Sauce Pot with Lid for just $14. They must have over-purchased for the holidays. [via Slickdeals] Update: Reader Kim L. confirmed that the price is showing as $40 for her. It still shows $14 for us (although they are out of stock). A mystery!