December 4th, 2007

Breaking: BlackBerry BIS is down

Can’t get my e-mail. Looks like BIS is down. → Read More

October 3rd, 2007

BlackBerry outage?

Reports are trickling in that BlackBerry users in New York and Washington are experiencing, yet, another outage with the typical message ‘blackberry data connection refused’ popping up when users try to access e-mail. Anyone? Research in Motion (RIMM) Blackberry data connection refused in New York and Washington [Blogging Stocks] → Read More

May 23rd, 2007

XM Offering Credit For Downtime

You may have heard that XM was down for almost a whole day and then it came back online. When a service you shell out money for on a monthly basis goes down, you’d obviously expect a credit of some sort to occur so that subscribers don’t go canceling their subscriptions. Luckily, XM is smart enough to know this and is offering two-days of credit to subscribers. If you want to get your… → Read More

April 18th, 2007

BlackBerry Outage Spreads!

Thanks, Sam! Aaron writes: Blackberrycool.com was down too. Aaron At least he got a message out before the entire network exploded! → Read More

April 18th, 2007

BlackBerry Outage Kills Three, Causes Mass Firing of F*cking Stupid Executive Assistants

I need my email. Do you hear me? I need my email! At about 5PM PDT last night, RIM’s push mail servers seemingly failed and created a mass outage in the “Western hemisphere,” leaving hundreds of men in chinos and shirts with their company name stitched above the breast pocket aghast and potentially causing multiple heart attacks and angry calls to the Help Desk to “fix this… → Read More

February 7th, 2007

Mexicans Lose Cellphone Service Temporarily

Imagine how chaotic life would become if T-Mobile, Cingular, and Verizon’s networks all crashed. You wouldn’t be able to call for help or order pizza at all until the problem was remedied. Well yesterday, millions of Mexicans who use wireless carrier Telcel had their network crash on them. Those in Mexico City were affected the most by the downtime and the whole fiasco took hours to… → Read More