Considering the impact of
BlackBerry outages in recent years and the ever - growing importance of the BlackBerry device functionality, one would think that RIM would offer the BlackBerry Infrastructure Notifications as a low cost a la carte solution, right?
Research In Motion's recent
BlackBerry outage was the worst in the company's history, leaving BlackBerry users in the Middle East, Europe, parts of South America, Canada, Africa and the United States without service for a total of three days.
Feel jittery when you're got
a BlackBerry outage on your hands?
That BlackBerry outage that disconnected millions of people from their digital worlds?
The big
BlackBerry outage in October, which took down service for customers all across the globe, has cost the company $ 50 million so far.
And of course,
the BlackBerry outage didn't affect all lawyers, including Future Lawyer Rick Georges.
Last night's
BlackBerry outage triggered frustration, panic and withdrawal symptoms amongst its many users, according to this Reuters article, A Night Without «CrackBerry»: Curse or Blessing?
Not exact matches
The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of
BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service
outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.
Emails would not go undelivered and unanswered if the
outage happens again, as the webmail solution would mirror exactly what arrives on the
BlackBerry handsets.
I'm pretty sure the massive
outage in 2011 which created huge problems for the
BlackBerry brand was a reason behind moving beyond the existing BIS architecture.
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the fading
Blackberry devices are giving away a handful of application worth almost $ 100 as compensation for the
Blackberry service
outage that had rendered a lot of the devices all around the world useless for quite some time.
One Mobile Ring is turning its attention to Research In Motion and the recent
outage of their
BlackBerry services.
Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion's Chief Information Officer has publically issued a statement over the
outage of their services, which has resulted in the loss of email, web browsing and
BlackBerry messaging.
So while many have been busy writing off the PlayBook tablet along with
BlackBerry smartphones, more so after the recent
outage, it seems there are interesting times ahead for RIM.
One Mobile Ring has had an exclusive interview with Anthony Payne, Research In Motion's Director of Platform Marketing at London's
BlackBerry Innovation Forum, in order to get to the bottom of their service
outage since Monday which has affected the whole of EMEA.
BlackBerry users are currently in the middle of a second BIS and BES in a week. Most users are without email and there are numerous reports of internet being down as well. As of 10 pm CST on Tuesday, RIM has not acknowledge or issued a statement on this
outage.
A data service
outage affecting some
BlackBerry users nationally this week seems to have left them angry but not deeply concerned about the future of
BlackBerry's maker, Research In Motion Ltd..
«
Outages do shake your confidence in what the back - end RIM infrastructure can support, but
BlackBerry users know that the best [wireless] experience still has the
BlackBerry brand on it,» Burden said in an interview.
Only when I first got it because the internet wasn't working, but then found out it was because of that
outage we had with the
Blackberry services nationwide.
A costly
BlackBerry service
outage and deep discounting of the price of its PlayBook tablet computer were cited last week as factors in the company's latest gloomy earnings figures.
Research In Motion said Wednesday it is investigating reports of
Blackberry users still experiencing email woes, after a service
outage affected millions of people worldwide last month.
«The worldwide
outages we experienced were unfortunate,» Lazaridis said during an opening presentation at the
BlackBerry DevCon Americas gathering.
Compared to the 70 million subscribers affected by the recent
BlackBerry service
outage, the number of pi $ $ ed of PlayBook owners is pretty small (probably around 250k... and the number of active daily PlayBook owners is probably half that).
These basic troubleshooting steps can solve most
BlackBerry mobile network connection issues that are not a result of regional or nationwide carrier
outages.
Co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis opened a major RIM developers conference here with a humble acknowledgement that the company stumbled with a recent
BlackBerry service
outage and quickly shifted to talk of an upbeat future.
(AP)-- The co-CEO of
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is making only a brief reference to last week's
outages as he opened a conference for software programmers in San Francisco.
This is a non-profit mailing list that's sole existence is based on the importance of
BlackBerry technology and the demand for information when service
outages or interruptions are happening.
The following most significant story was when One Mobile Ring published an exclusive interview with Anthony Payne, Research In Motion's Director of Platform Marketing at London's
BlackBerry Innovation Forum — in order to get to the bottom of their service
outage since Monday which has affected the whole of EMEA.
Later on in the week, RIM CIO publically apologises for the recent service
outage of the
BlackBerry services and Apple released a new operating system for iPhone handsets, iPad tablet and other devices.
Compatible with iPhone, Android and
BlackBerry devices, Hydro One is the first Canadian utility to offer customers a free, downloadable
outage tracking app.
It's also had major problems trying to get consumers interested in its PlayBook tablet and angered many of its
BlackBerry customers last October when it took three days to fix a service
outage.
At the U.S. Capitol, where lawmakers and staffers rely on the
BlackBerry to keep plugged into shifting legislative and political battles, the temporary
outage was crippling.
Last week the most severe
outage in RIM's history crippled
BlackBerry users» abilities to use e-mail, BBM, and the Internet in general for over three days.