outage News

RIM Hit with Consumer Lawsuits over BlackBerry Outage

Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of …

RIM Offers Free Apps to Appease BlackBerry Customers

Canada’s Research In Motion Ltd said it will offer free premium apps worth more than $100, in a bid to appease its customers following BlackBerry service disruption last week. Research In Motion said the complete selection of premium apps will …

BlackBerry Maker Scrambles to End Global Outage; Repair Damage to Brand

The company that makes the BlackBerry smart phone is working frantically to end a three-day global service disruption that has frustrated millions of its customers and pumped up pressure on its management to make sweeping changes. Research In Motion [RIM], …