[matt-m]

Me an vader both have blackberrys there great because of the messenger feature and I have my personal and work emails attached to it so due to a problem at slough ? Just glad we were still able to receive txt and normal calls and for loss of service blackberry have said sorry through vodafone who sent us a txt lol.

Anyone else had probs with this this week

[Leeky]

Its been affecting Europe, Middle East, Africa and the US since monday, due to a catastrophic switching failure at their UK datacentre outside of London.

IT should now be resolved, but issues are due to the huge backlog of data the servers are trying to crunch through to get everryone up to date.

Not a good time for RIM, there profits are down, and they're struggling to sell Playbooks despite dropping the price twice. Added to the iPhone launch, it couldn't have come at a worse time for the company.

Read more here: http://www.techspot.com/news/45807-m...nd-africa.html

And RIM's founders public appology here: http://www.techspot.com/news/45850-r...-restored.html

[ASTOBBS]

pitty it couldn't have crashed when people where using it to arrange riots.

[matt-m]

Agree with that the riots may have not been as bad . Just came at the wrong time for me an jen with her dad in hospital