Mine seems to be working fine.
BlackBerry network goes titsup inopportunely AGAIN
RIM's BlackBerry network is down again, disconnecting users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but that won't come as a surprise to the socially connected. The outage started around 09.00 this morning, RIM reckons it's only affecting "some users" but the mailbox here at Vulture Central is filling up with (sadly resigned) …
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Friday 21st September 2012 11:28 GMT ElNumbre
BES on Vodafone
Our BES and handsets on the Voda network have all gone for an early session down the pub. About 400 handsets. Voda's forum message was basically shout at RIM, their fault.
However, we don't have RIM account managers, we have telco account managers, so they are the ones getting a hot ear.
Today would be a good day to launch a competing phone...
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Friday 21st September 2012 17:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
The fact that RIM had an apparently minor server outage doesn't change the facts that your phone is last-decade tech, your phone's OS is absolute wank, and that when people see you with it they think, "Wanker." So what's your point?
(Apologies to the other grown-ups on this thread for feeding the troll, couldn't help it, sorry :p)
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Friday 21st September 2012 18:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
I guess your phone is an Android phone?
Android is Linux based and the kernel was started in the early 90s. So quite a few decades old in terms of technology.
Both Android and OSX have similar Unix underpinnings. So neither is particularly modern, Unix is tried and tested solid technology but about 43 years old.
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Monday 1st October 2012 14:36 GMT James 100
Re: Really?
That's RIM's problem, really: there simply cannot be an "iPhone outage", nor an "Android outage", because those are standalone devices rather than reliant on RIM servers keeping on ticking.
Even if Apple and Google somehow folded tomorrow and had all their servers wheeled away by repo men, my handset would carry on for now - yes, I'd be stuck for security updates, support etc, but my email and web access would be totally unaffected. If RIM's servers go dark, though, so do the handsets.
From an infosec perspective, I find people's enthusiasm for getting their mail via an encrypted link to a third-party server that makes an encrypted connection to their mail server, rather than having a direct encrypted link to the mail, depressing. Neat hack to achieve push with low power consumption, sure, but what happens when that extra point of failure fails?
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