By Harry McCracken | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:00 pm
The BlackBerry e-mail outage that has been impacting parts of Europe and the Middle East for days has now crept into the U.S. Here’s Ina Fried’s report on a conference call RIM held to (sort of) explain what’s going on.
I’m not an expert on e-mail back-end architecture, and it’s possible that BlackBerry’s overall uptime remains excellent. But these sweeping outages have happened before. Isn’t it a major problem for RIM customers who run their own BlackBerry servers that they’re still so dependent on things working properly up in Canada?
October 13th, 2011 at 8:31 am
Blackberry is in a pretty bad financial state, so if they go bust, what happens to your phones? Yep, pretty much useless (be honest, that's the only reason that somebody would buy a BlackBerry over iPhone/Android/etc). Think about that…