BlackBerry Message Service Remains Disrupted in UK, India

Release Date 12 Oct, 2011 in BusinessWeek

 
   
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RIM tells BlackBerry users of outage in Americas

Reuters - Euan Rocha - 12 Oct, 2011
A person uses the new Blackberry Bold 9900 at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices in Toronto August 3, 2011. TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion advised some clients on Wednesday that it was dealing with a BlackBerry outage in the ...

Canadians affected as BlackBerry maker faces technical glitches for a third day

CanadianBusiness.com - 12 Oct, 2011
By The Canadian Press | October 12, 2011 A Blackberry user thumbs through a menu near to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 5, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick TORONTO - Technical glitches that have affected millions of BlackBerry users around ...

BlackBerry's masterclass in how not to do PR

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Tom Chivers - 12 Oct, 2011
For those of you who haven't been following the BlackBerry saga, the yuppie-gadget giant has been having something of a nightmare the last few days. Users of said yuppie gadgets in Europe, ...

Canadians affected as BlackBerry maker faces technical glitches for a third day

Winnipeg Free Press - 12 Oct, 2011
A Blackberry user thumbs through a menu near to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 5, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick TORONTO - Technical glitches that have affected millions of BlackBerry users around the world spread to Canada on Wednesday ...

RIM faces third day of smartphone glitches

CanadianBusiness.com - 12 Oct, 2011
By The Canadian Press | October 12, 2011 A Blackberry user thumbs through a menu near to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 5, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick TORONTO - BlackBerry users across the world faced another day of technical glitches ...

Investors keen on RIM shakeup

Montreal Gazette - Pav Jordan - 12 Oct, 2011
A growing mass of Research In Motion investors backs calls for a sale or breakup of the company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone and wants a new, "transformational leader" at its helm, according to a ...

Red faces as BlackBerry problems continue

ITN - 12 Oct, 2011
As many BlackBerry users enter day three without mobile internet access, messaging and email, the rage, sarcasm and fruit jokes continue. A "core switch failure" at the BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM), crashed the server three days ago ...

BlackBerry Outages Continue, Reports Say They've Spread To North America

NPR (blog) - Mark Memmott - 12 Oct, 2011
The focus remains on "Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India," where millions of BlackBerry users are without text services for a third straight day, Reuters reports, but there's word now that the problems are also affecting folks in ...

BlackBerry Message Service Remains Disrupted in U.K., India

San Francisco Chronicle - 12 Oct, 2011
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service remained disrupted for a third day in the UK and India after a switching failure caused snags across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. BlackBerry users continue to have problems ...

BlackBerry Message Service Remains Disrupted in UK, India

Bloomberg - Adi Narayan, Jonathan Browning - 12 Oct, 2011
BlackBerry users are still experiencing problems accessing data services as RIM, maker of the smartphone, works to clear the backlog of data, mobile-phone operator Vodafone Group Plc ...

As fix begins, worldwide BlackBerry users still have problems

Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - 12 Oct, 2011
Computerworld - BlackBerry users Wednesday reported that problems are continuing into a third day in Europe and Asia, after Research in Motion reported on Tuesday that a fix was underway. And for the first time, BlackBerry service ...

Millions of BlackBerry Users Cut Off for Third Day

Fox News - 12 Oct, 2011
AP Photo/Oliver Lang BlackBerry users were hit with service disruptions to their smartphones for a second day on Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011 after an unexplained glitch cut off Internet and messaging services for large numbers of users across Europe, ...

BlackBerry maker faces technical glitches for 3rd day

CTV.ca - 12 Oct, 2011
TORONTO â€" BlackBerry users across the world faced another day of technical glitches as text and email services in numerous countries ran into further trouble. The outage seemed to spread to Canada briefly in the early morning as email and text services ...

BlackBerry outage: UK executive says staff working 'day and night' on fix

The Guardian - 12 Oct, 2011
BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been experiencing problems with emails and messaging due to a power outage in Slough, UK. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Engineers are working "day and night" to try to fix the problem ...

RIM stands, staggers, falls again

Register - Bill Ray - 12 Oct, 2011
BlackBerry Messenger is down again, despite RIM's assurances that everything would be fine. It seems lots of people can't get connected and partners are receiving notifications about ongoing problems. ...

BlackBerry blackout: latest

Telegraph.co.uk - 12 Oct, 2011
Millions of BlackBerry users wake to find their phone still cannot access the internet. RIM makes no further statement by 12PM. "In all my years in IT biz, I have never seen such a outage as experienced by BlackBerry. I can't understand why it's taking ...

UAE's Etisalat compensates BlackBerry users after RIM outage

Reuters - 12 Oct, 2011
DUBAI Oct 12 (Reuters) - UAE telecoms firm Etisalat on Wednesday said it would compensate its BlackBerry customers after they were left without some services on their smartphones following failures in manufacturer Research In Motion's private network. ...

Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day

National Post (registration) - Georgina Prodhan - 12 Oct, 2011
LONDON â€" Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network. ...

BlackBerry RIM Server Crash Continues To Affect Millions Europe Middle East ...

Sky News - 12 Oct, 2011
Millions of BlackBerry customers across the world have been left without email or text services for a third day. To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. ...

BlackBerry blackout enters day three

Telegraph.co.uk - Christopher Williams - 12 Oct, 2011
Millions of BlackBerry users have entered their third day of an internet blackout, with no word on when services might be restored. By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent RIM, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand, ...

THIRD DAY OF PROBLEMS FOR MILLIONS OF BLACKBERRY USERS

Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - 12 Oct, 2011
(AGI) London - Millions of BlackBerry users have been without text services while RIM seeks to solve its network problem. Users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India have experienced e-mail outage and lack of access to browsing and messaging for ...

Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day

Reuters India - Shannon Stapleton, Greg Mahlich - 12 Oct, 2011
A person uses the Blackberry on subway tracks at West 14th street and 8th avenue in New York September 27, 2011. By Georgina Prodhan LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a ...

BlackBerry Services Hit By More Disruption

Wall Street Journal - 12 Oct, 2011
By ARCHIBALD PREUSCHAT BlackBerry users around the world experienced further disruptions in service Wednesday, the third consecutive day of problems that have now spread further into Asia. Associated Press Subscribers in Europe reported intermittent ...

BlackBerry Crumble draws tart responses

Independent Online - 12 Oct, 2011
By Kamcilla Pillay and Reuters Relief quickly turned to anguish as BlackBerry users were once again without internet and instant messaging services.On Tuesday, via their Twitter stream, RIM, the company responsible for the manufacture and management of ...

Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day

Reuters India - Georgina Prodhan, Greg Mahlich - 12 Oct, 2011
Get the latest news on the go. Visit Reuters India on your mobile device. Full Coverage A man uses his mobile phone as he waits for a skytrain in Bangkok September 23, 2010. By Georgina Prodhan LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of BlackBerry users around the ...

Tell Us Your BlackBerry Tale of Woe

Wall Street Journal (blog) - 12 Oct, 2011
By WSJ Staff AP As Archibald Preuschat reports this morning, BlackBerry users are experiencing a third day of intermittent service, affecting email, messaging and Web access. Users tend to forgive one-day outages â€" hey, these things happen â€" but with ...

It's down and out as BBM void grows

Independent Online - 12 Oct, 2011
AP BlackBerry's messaging system was hit by a blackout in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. BLACKBERRY users around the world were still without internet access, e-mail services and the smartphone's popular free messenger service after a critical ...

Blackberry problems enter third day as users jam social networks with ...

Scottish Daily Record - Alex Diaz - 12 Oct, 2011
Disruption to BlackBerry services entered a third day today with fed-up users reporting further problems. BlackBerry's maker Research in Motion (RIM) said in a statement last night that service problems which started on Monday were due to a "core ...

BlackBerry Users In Europe, Asia Face Further Service Problems

Wall Street Journal - 12 Oct, 2011
By Archibald Preuschat Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)--BlackBerry users around the world experienced further disruptions in service Wednesday, the third consecutive day of problems which now appear to have spread further into Asia. ...

BlackBerry service disruption enters third day

gulfnews.com - Derek Baldwin - 12 Oct, 2011
Some BlackBerry users in the UAE regained access to email, calendar and bulletin messenger services briefly on Tuesday morning but the services were off again later on. Dubai: UAE telecom operators Etisalat ...

 

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