RIM is apparently mum about the details behind two outages that occured over the past week with its BlackBerry service.
From various news sources:
Research in Motion Ltd. is again offering few details about an outage — the second one in a week — with its popular BlackBerry service, which delivers e-mail to wireless devices that many users affectionately call CrackBerries.
RIM attributed a June 17 outage lasting nearly four hours to a software upgrade “that did not operate consistent with prior testing.” The Canadian company said a second North American outage Wednesday was because of an unrelated “hardware failure.”
Hmm, a “software upgrade” and a “hardware failure.” I wonder if these incidents have anything to do with the rumoured “nuclear option” that RIM claims to have against NTP, in which it claims to have a workaround to the ongoing patent dispute?