Thursday, April 19, 2007

BlackBerry Down

The long-term ramifications of the outage could prove troubling for the maker of the popular smartphone..

By midmorning Eastern Time today most BlackBerry users in the Western Hemisphere found that the push e-mail service had recovered from the outage that began last night. The longer-term ramifications of the massive shutdown for the maker of the popular smartphone, however, could be broader and more troubling.

The facility that serves as a hub for RIM's North American traffic, routing messages between the roughly 8 million BlackBerry devices now in use and the various sources of email, from private corporate servers to web-based accounts like Yahoo and AOL.


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