September 21st, 2012

RIM CEO Apologizes For Yet Another Outage, Up To 4.7M BlackBerry Users Affected

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Thorsten Heins, RIM’s President and CEO, has put out a statement apologising for the network outage that struck BlackBerry users in Europe and Africa this morning. → Read More

September 21st, 2012

BlackBerry Outage Strikes EMEA On iPhone 5 Launch Day: Ouch — That’s Gotta Hurt (Updated)

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A network outage has struck BlackBerry users in the EMEA region this morning — on, irony of ironies, iPhone 5 launch day — affecting BBM, email and internet but not voice or text. → Read More

October 13th, 2011

CNN: Blackberry Outage Impacting Users On Almost Every Planet

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There’s no escape. The Blackberry service outage is now impacting users on almost every planet, CNN reports. Tatooine and Coruscant appear to not have been affected yet, but users all over Geonosis, Naboo and Yavin were reportedly hit hard. Our thoughts are with their inhabitants.

(Via @dccrowley and @mpoppel, but probably first noted by @brundle_fly) → Read More