Slough: UK town where BlackBerry problems started

Release Date 15 Oct, 2011 in Reuters

 
   

Source of BlackBerry outages makes RIM butt of Office jokes

Calgary Herald (blog) - Stephen Ewart - 15 Oct, 2011
With the biggest outage in the history of BlackBerry now traced back to the entirely mockable English town of Slough (rhymes with wow) an hour west of London past Heathrow Airport, cue the jokes. Especially after CEO Mike Lazaridis said RIM doesn't ...

Slough: UK town where BlackBerry problems started

Reuters - Peter Griffiths, Clare Kane - 15 Oct, 2011
SLOUGH, England (Reuters) - The closest most people can get to where millions of BlackBerrys stopped working is a grey office block, over the road from a discount golf superstore and a mobile hamburger van, in the town of Slough, ...

Research in Motion: 'The Office' Connection

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Mark Gongloff - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
On a more positive note, the good news is, I've been promoted, so… every cloud. You're still thinking about the bad news aren't you? “Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now.” Those are the words of poet ...

The UK town where BlackBerry problems started

Financial Post - Peter Griffiths - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
Research in Motion (RIM) UK managing director Stephen Bates poses outside the company's headquarters in Slough, southern England. By Peter Griffiths SLOUGH, ENGLAND " The closest most people can get to where millions of BlackBerrys stopped working is a ...

No Joke: BlackBerry Problems Began With 'The Office'

Fox News - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
AP BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion's European hub -- a three-story building where engineers have been racing against the clock to fix an outage that left customers on five continents without email or instant messaging for days -- sits in an estate ...

Slough: UK town where BlackBerry problems started

Zimbabwe Telegraph - Peter Griffiths, Clare Kane - 15 Oct, 2011
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT By Peter Griffiths SLOUGH, England (Reuters) " The closest most people can get to where millions of BlackBerrys stopped working is a grey office block, over the road from a discount golf superstore and a mobile hamburger van, ...

 

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