Toronto, Canada – BlackBerry users this afternoon have reported another outage affecting the smartphone platform’s BlackBerry Information Service. The failures appear broader than the primarily mail-related delays from just last week and now also affect web browsing, BlackBerry Messenger and third-party apps that use Internet access. RIM has been contacted by Electronista for commentary but hasn’t yet had the opportunity to respond.
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The issue represents the third such failure within weeks and comes just as RIM is counting on continued strong sales to buffer itself against competition from the iPhone, which may come close to or match BlackBerry sales based on some analyst estimates.
RIM’s system has previously drawn criticism for its heavily centralized nature that passes many messages and some other data through its own servers. The technique is key to the BlackBerry’s push e-mail delivery but has resulted in numerous outages, particularly for individual users that don’t have a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Most competitors, like Android and iPhone, have service-independent push that usually depends on the using widespread standards like IMAP to deliver mail at near real-time.
Mine has been a few hours behind today.
its a mesg from g-d its time to get rid of them they only wreck havoc!!
its time to boycott these crooks .
That’s good to know. I thought it was my unit that was broken.
all my friends here in brooklyn lost service before and its still not up again.
oy vay. what r u gonna do now in middle of davening or learning?
time for an iPhone
ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i relised now mine is out……..
mine too.. out for hours already… piece of crap… any refunds ? why are we paying hundreds of dollars per month ???
this is riduclues, i am going crazy with out getting my emails
My is working back already.
I also thought it was my unit.
Time to get iPhones, people!