{"id":404,"date":"2005-06-26T00:20:07","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=404"},"modified":"2005-06-25T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T21:21:05","slug":"something-fishy-in-crackberry-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Something fishy in CrackBerry land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rim.com\">RIM<\/a> is apparently mum about the details behind two outages that occured over the past week with its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.net\">BlackBerry<\/a> service.<\/p>\n<p>From<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfw.com\/mld\/dfw\/news\/11984835.htm\"> various news sources<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Research in Motion Ltd. is again offering few details about an outage &#8212; the second one in a week &#8212; with its popular BlackBerry service, which delivers e-mail to wireless devices that many users affectionately call CrackBerries.<\/p>\n<p>RIM attributed a June 17 outage lasting nearly four hours to a software upgrade &#8220;that did not operate consistent with prior testing.&#8221; The Canadian company said a second North American outage Wednesday was because of an unrelated &#8220;hardware failure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, a &#8220;software upgrade&#8221; and a &#8220;hardware failure.&#8221;  I wonder if these incidents have anything to do with the rumoured &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; that RIM claims to have against NTP, in which it claims to have a workaround to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/index.php?s=blackberry\">ongoing patent dispute<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Blackberry outages in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}