Outages

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Oops, Siri Isn’t Working Right Now

6:44AM November 4, 2011 | Casey Chan

It looks like Siri, the iPhone 4S’ do it all personal assistant is suffering from an outage right now. As in, it’s not working. So hold off asking her silly questions or making her write down important notes for you. More »

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RIM Sued Over Its Worldwide Outage Debacle

2:16AM October 28, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Remember the Great BlackBerry Doodie-Storm of 2011, when RIM’s messaging services were crippled across the world for three days? Poor Lazaridis and the gang can’t catch a break: Now they’re facing class action suits in Canada and the US over the outages. More »

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RIM Offers Free Apps And Games To Appease Users Over Outage

5:30AM October 18, 2011 | Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

BlackBerry maker RIM has announced it’s giving away a stack of apps and games to its users over the next few months, as a combined apology and peace offering to those who suffered during last week’s “BlackBerry Jam” network failures. More »

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No Blackberries = Less Traffic Accidents

5:16AM October 18, 2011 | Adrian Covert

When RIM’s Blackberry servers were melting down across the globe last week, the business-centric cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai experienced a sharp drop-off in reported traffic accidents, leading authorities to proclaim that roads were much safer when BlackBerry stopped working. More »

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RIM Begins To Restore BlackBerry Services

4:00AM October 14, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

BlackBerry users will soon get their email fix again as RIM is finally restoring its BlackBerry services worldwide. More »

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RIM Still Sorry, Still Has No Idea What Happened

2:51AM October 14, 2011 | Brian Barrett

That BlackBerry outage that disconnected millions of people from their digital worlds? RIM held a call today to reiterate how very sorry they are. And to reassure its valued customers that it has absolutely no clue why BlackBerry imploded. Nice. More »

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Blackberry Outage Now Impacting User On ‘Almost Every Planet’

2:11AM October 14, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

From Earth to Venus to Neptune to 1RXS J160929.1-210524, the Blackberry outage has left our blue marble and is now “impacting users on almost every planet,” according to CNN reporting live from Uranus. More »

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RIM Responds To Global BlackBerrypocalypse

10:31AM October 13, 2011 | Sam Biddle

You might have noticed BlackBerry service has collapsed for a lot of people around the entire planet. Two full days later, RIM’s decided to say something about it: “We’re working on it.” Great! More »

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Microsoft Tempting Blackberry And iOS Users With Free Windows Phone Handsets

8:40AM October 13, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

RIM and Apple are having a bad day and it’s only getting worse. Not only are their servers still misbehaving, their competition is giving away free phones to users who are upset with these service disruptions. More »

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BlackBerry Picked The Wrong Day To Die

8:05AM October 13, 2011 | Brian Barrett

There’s no such thing as a good time for RIM to leave half its customers without messaging or internet. But the problem’s been getting worse, not better — on one day that Apple makes its strongest case for total dominance. More »