Mike Lazaridis apologizes on Video for BlackBerry Outage, Service still not fully Recovered

The outage of BlackBerry service is still not completely fixed. RIM Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis saw it now necessary to address frustrated BlackBerry users around the world in a video message. You can watch it below. There is still not definite deadline when all services are back to normal. A Reuters report says that the the backlog of messages might be finally be cleared somewhen today. The services are supposed to be up and working, but the backlog of messages from the last four days needs to be still processed.

This is RIM's second largest outage. RIM chose a really bad timing for the outage. Just when the new iPhone 4S goes on sale. BlackBerry phones are seen to be behind the curve right now. If RIM is executing well they could be back with QNX based BlackBerry phones in 2012. I have my doubts though that QNX alone will save them. 

Updates

BBM to stay exclusive to BlackBerry devices

Source: Neowin

RIM may have wowed the audience at BlackBerry world earlier last month but the company has yet to release any product that has succeeded to take ground over the last year. It was rumored that RIM had been in talk ...
Full article at: Neowin  More like this  3 hours ago

BlackBerry CEO cans BBM for Android

Source: Android Community

We know that RIM had been working on BBM for multiple platforms, and we’ve seen the prototype app a couple of times. According to the report, RIM had been hiding the application on their developer devices as “SMS 2 ...
Full article at: Android Community  More like this  4 hours ago

Corrections & Amplifications

Source: Wall Street Journal

A Research In Motion Ltd. spokeswoman said the company remains focused on, and is committed to, BlackBerry Messenger, its instant-messaging service, and is "excited to bring new capabilities" to the service's user base. ...
Full article at: Wall Street Journal  More like this  4 hours ago, 6:50pm CDT

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