BlackBerry Outage Leaves Millions Without e-Mail

A massive service outage of BlackBerry e-mail devices earlier this week resulted from a new storage feature that was not sufficiently tested, device maker Research In Motion (RIM).

RIM said it was able to rule out concerns that the failure was caused by a security breach into its system or an inability to provide enough capacity to nearly 8 million subscribers, according to a statement issued late on Thursday.
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The crash (down) left politicians, lawyers, business executives and other “CrackBerry” addicts without wireless e-mail service on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. (Blackberry news: reuters)