Down and Out of Touch

Release Date 13 Oct, 2011 in Wall Street Journal

 
   

Down and Out of Touch

Wall Street Journal - Ben Rooney, Javier Espinoza - 13 Oct, 2011
The smartphone outage that has lingered for three days in Europe, the Middle East and Africa spread to North America on Wednesday, leaving key work and social functions such as email, BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook and Twitter either down or unreliable ...

Blackouts anger BlackBerry users

Arab News - Rima Al-Mukhtar - 13 Oct, 2011
JEDDAH: BlackBerry subscribers in the Kingdom have expressed anger and confusion after the smartphone system's messenger service experienced unexplained blackouts in the Middle East. Saudi Telecom Company (STC) sent an ...

For users, it is like living without the right hand

gulfnews.com - Habiba Ahmed - 13 Oct, 2011
Dubai: Two days amount to 48 hours. To some people, that may not mean much but to many Blackberry users it means a blackout. Larissa Koshkina, a student at the American University of Dubai (AUD), ...

BlackBerry's masterclass in how not to do PR

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Tom Chivers - 13 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, ...

BlackBerry network failure enters day 3 users aghast

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Oct 12, 2011‎
The widespread BlackBerry outage is surely not doing any good for the brand's future prospects. For the third day running, many users in India are unable to receive e-mail or use BlackBerry Messenger. With essential services like the BlackBerry ...

BlackBerry users face 2nd black day

Indian Express - ‎Oct 11, 2011‎
Lakhs of BlackBerry users in India, as also millions abroad, faced problems in accessing the email, messenger and other online services on the smartphone for the second day today, even as the company said it was working to resolve the issues. ...

BlackBerry BBM, email offline AGAIN

Register - ‎Oct 11, 2011‎
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author BlackBerry services are offline again after a burst of precious uptime that followed 20 hours of fail yesterday. Orange UK sent out an email alert to its BlackBerry-toting customers at around 13.30 BST ...

We were not hacked - BlackBerry

Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News - Alex Eliseev - 13 Oct, 2011
As BlackBerry users across the world get back online, the company which owns the popular smartphones has dismissed any fears it was hacked. Tens of millions of users spent three days without being able to send BBM messages and access their social ...

'We're sorry, some BlackBerry customers are still experiencing problems'

Platform Online - 13 Oct, 2011
That was the message I received on numerous occasions when I thought it might have been from a friend sending a text or email. On most occasions when my service provider sends me a message it's usually not something I'd drop everything for. ...

Have a raspberry

Citizen - 13 Oct, 2011
It must have been tough without e-mails, Facebook, Twitter, BBM and all the other facets of cyber-communication, but our brave ancestors soldiered on. Actually there are billions of people alive who managed perfectly well without the Blackberry devices ...

BlackBerry users frustrated

News Talk 610 CKTB - Siobhan Morris - 13 Oct, 2011
The smart phone's network has been experiencing problems in Canada since Tuesday night. 610 CKTB listeners say they can't use their web browsers, access e-mail or use the popular BlackBerry Messenger service. It's the third day of problems for ...

BlackBerry's Ace in the Hole

IT Business Edge (blog) - Carl Weinschenk - 13 Oct, 2011
By date: BlackBerry, as the lead sentence in this eWeek story points out, is not having a good week. The biggest news is that the company has had worldwide service problems. The piece says that issues have cropped up, according to a statement Research ...

BlackBerry BBM, email, Internet down for 3rd day

TameBay - Chris Dawson - 13 Oct, 2011
For the third day in a row BlackBerry mobile phone users are suffering outages to email, Internet and BBM (BlackBerry Messenger). I spoke to a colleague yesterday who has a corporate company phone and he said he thought it had been a ...

About That Blackberry Service: All Bets Are Off

Chortler - 13 Oct, 2011
The British bookmaker is taking bets that long-suffering Blackberry users will have their email and BBM access fully restored in five days time. Odds are 66/1 that the outage lasts until Christmas and a whopping 250/1 that the service stays down when ...

BlackBerry Services Down for Third Day Running

webhostdir.com - 13 Oct, 2011
For the third day in a row BlackBerry users are seeing a loss of connectivity to core elements of their devices, including emails, internet browsing and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). According to reports, the problems in the UK stem from an issue with ...

SA BBM-less for two days

Screen Africa - 13 Oct, 2011
Independent Online reports that South African BBM addicts had to endure a second day of being without BlackBerry's BBM data services this week. BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) was quoted as saying that users in Europe, Middle East, ...

BlackBerry alternatives for business - a roundup

Simply Business knowledge - Josh Hall - ‎Oct 11, 2011‎
Yesterday, BlackBerry users endured a fate worse than technological death â€" a day without email or BBM. Users in Europe, the Midle East and Asia suffered from the outage, which was blamed on a server failure in the UK. ...

Bye Bye, BBM?

Gadget - Arthur Goldstuck - ‎Oct 11, 2011‎
The outage that has rendered BlackBerry Internet Service all but unusable across Africa, Europe and the Middle East has highlighted the need for options and alternatives. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK offers a quick guide to a life without BBM. ...

Blackberry Service Down Across Europe...AGAIN!

Business Insider - ‎Oct 11, 2011‎
News 24 reports that, as was the case yesterday, millions of users are without Internet, email or BBM on their mobile devices. Less than 24 hours ago, Blackberry owners suffered a similar problem following a fault at a UK datacenter. ...

Blackberry Crash - Blackberry Network down once more

The Red 99 - ‎Oct 11, 2011‎
The Blackberry Network is still down. In an earlier Article we revealed that the network was back up and running following the Server crash yesterday which resulted in all Blackberry services crashing. However many of our users have commented that the ...

BlackBerry outage upsets customers across world

PakistanToday.com.pk - ‎Oct 10, 2011‎
ISLAMABAD - BlackBerry customers across the world faced difficulties as the Canadian Research In Motion system hit snags, disrupting mailing facilities. The BB service users in Pakistan started getting upset on Monday evening when they received calls ...

 

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