BlackBerry Outage

This BlackBerry Outage Is The Best iPhone Commercial Ever

by Robb Dunewood on February 3, 2009 · 19 comments

So, we are now in day two of the Feb. 09 BlackBerry outage and I am sure that I will lay a huge rant on RIM once I hear the excuse as to how “what was never supposed happen again” still hasn’t been resolved some 30 hours or so later. For now, I will just Read more...

Planned BlackBerry Outage June 7th & June 8th

by Robb Dunewood on June 1, 2008 · 3 comments

Dataoutages.com is reporting that Research in Motion is updating BIS 2.4 this coming weekend and there there will be two maintenance windows June 7th and June 8th between 2:00 and 6:00 a.m. EDT on both days. This outage will affect 100% North American BIS users, however, users should only be down for about an hour Read more...

Another Month, Another BlackBerry Outage

by Robb Dunewood on April 10, 2008 · 16 comments

Well, it looks like BlackBerry users accross North America experienced a BIS outage today.  I’ve been away from the computer all day so I am just now hearing about this, however, there are many reports that the issues have been resolved. Sad… Read more...

Research in Motion Co-CEO Is Full of $#!+ When It Comes To BlackBerry Outages

by Robb Dunewood on March 12, 2008 · 11 comments

I’ve always been told that the first step in dealing with an problem is admitting that you have one. Based on Zach Church’s observations at Gartner’s Wireless and Mobile Summit last week, this sounds exactly like what Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis needs to do when it comes to all of the BlackBerry outages Read more...

RIM… What The %$#%

by Robb Dunewood on February 20, 2008 · 45 comments

I simply cannot believe that Research in Motion is having another outage. It looks like all carriers have been experiencing BIS issues since about 3:00 a.m. this morning. These outages have moved beyond just annoying into the realm of incompetence. Your competitors have been looking for ways to knock you off your throne atop the Read more...

A System Upgrade Caused The BlackBerry Outage

by Robb Dunewood on February 14, 2008 · 11 comments

Word on the street is that a “routine” system upgrade is what caused most BlackBerry users to go without BlackBerry service Monday afternoon. I don’t know that I would call an upgrade that could cause most of North, Central, and South America not to be able to send and receive email routine, however, at least Read more...

Another Month, Another BlackBerry Outage

by Robb Dunewood on December 4, 2007 · 18 comments

Numerous reports have come in stating that there was some type of BIS outage yesterday. BlackBerry Enterprise Server users were not affected. It looks like service started being affected around 6:30 p.m. EST yesterday but was back up at 2:30 a.m. this morning. If memory serves me correctly, there has been at least one BlackBerry Read more...