FOLLOW-UP: RIM: BlackBerry Service ‘Has Been Fully Restored’
"Since launching BlackBerry in 1999, it’s been my goal to provide reliable, real-time communications around the world," begins RIM founder an Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis’ apology video, "We did not deliver on that goal this week."
"Not even close."
Lazaridis goes on to say that
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Bad news for privacy paranoids: Verizon Wireless is monitoring the web browsing habits of its customers, and plans to sell the data in aggregate.
Under Verizon’s new privacy policy, as noticed by Computerworld, the carrier will collect data on the websites customers are visiting, the apps they’re using and the location of their …
If you’re on the fence about whether or not to upgrade your iPhone to the new iPhone 4S, here’s a little extra encouragement.
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Apple may still be the undisputed king of the app stores, but new research suggests that its reign may have less than a year left, barring any surprising developments (and, no, the iPhone 4S doesn’t count as a surprising development).
Currently, according to research from Xyologic, monthly Apple app downloads in the U.S. are nearly …
Yep, iOS 5 is out, and you can grab it now if you’re an iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone user with a copy of iTunes on a Mac or Windows PC. If you don’t have iTunes 5 yet (released last night), you’ll need to grab a copy of that first.
My iPhone 4 version download size, according to iTunes, is 781.9 MB, while the iPad version (provided by …
The current change of the seasons means many things: Shorter days, the return of pumpkin spice lattes to your coffee shop and, of course, worries that the tickle in your throat may, in fact, be a sign of some terrible disease that’s just about to envelop your very being and make death itself seem like a tempting alternative. But if, like …
Even as concerns continue to be raised about the lack of media coverage of Occupy Wall Street, one thing is becoming clear: Twitter is handily picking up that slack.
Information from data analysis company “Attention” shows that despite reports that activists themselves are moving away from the service, Twitter dominates the OWS social …
The wait for Apple’s iPhone 4S is almost over—it launches on Friday—but already a select batch of reviewers have laid hands on Apple’s latest handset. No surprises here: They dig it. Here’s a roundup of the first iPhone 4S reviews.
As you’ve probably heard, the iPhone 4S looks exactly like its predecessor, with two glass …
BlackBerry service interruptions have been making their way across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and parts of South America over the past couple of days, with reports now surfacing that customers in the U.S. and Canada are experiencing problems as well.
Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry devices, took to the …
Sony Bravia TV feeling a little warm to the touch? Haven’t had to heat the home because the TV’s keeping things toasty all by itself? Maybe it’s because your flatscreen has a hidden feature you didn’t know about, say something called “yuppie campfire.”
No? Still, it turns out there is a global problem with Sony Bravia-brand TVs sold …
Roku, which pretty much invented the cheap, easy-to-use Internet TV streaming box, is the sort of scrappy startup which you might have assumed would get steamrolled by mammoth competitors early on.
Instead, it’s continued to do well even as Apple and Google have muscled in on its territory—in part because it’s a fine product, in …
You might think that Groupon’s "Deal Counter" display would exist to show exactly how many customers had purchased a particular deal on offer from the site, but apparently, you’d be wrong.
In a blog post this weekend, Groupon revealed that it is purposefully fudging the numbers in order to prevent people from making "consistently
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