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Blackberry Interrupted

  • Bloomberg, Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:30 PM
Blackberry maker Research In Motion says some North American consumers using the device are experiencing interruptions receiving personal e-mail messages. The company said technicians are working on the outage, and that phone service and Web browsing have not been affected. The email outage, meanwhile, is apparently affecting all BlackBerry users, regardless of their carrier, who rely on RIM's Internet-based service for e-mail delivery instead of corporate servers. Not only do businesses and governments worldwide rely on BlackBerrys to communicate with mobile workers, but an increasing number of fickle consumers who can choose between an array of fancy smartphones. RIM, which competes with devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, had about 32 million subscribers globally at the end of August.

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