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BlackBerry Blackout Lasts 12 Hours

Millions of data and email addicts left jonesing during service outage

By Colleen Barry, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 19, 2007 8:57 AM CDT

(Newser) – Five million BlackBerry scrollers in the U.S. and Asia were stymied for 12 hours over Tuesday night and yesterday morning while Research in Motion frantically fixed a service outage. Early-riser Wall Streeters working on deals with London were particularly annoyed by the downtime. Experts surmise the blackout was a side effect of rapid expansion.

Wireless email addicts described a sort of withdrawal: "I was running around my hotel like a freak," one business traveler said. Others were more directly peeved at the Canadian R.I.M. "It's an unfortunate black eye for the company," a stockbroker told the Guardian. The company's shares dropped 2% on Nasdaq.

The omnipresent BlackBerry. (Associated Press)

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