Exarkun1138

October 12, 2011 at 5:06pm

As of 4pm Central Time we are back up and runnig as well. Sucks bad that this happened AGAIN. We are currently looking for alternatives to Blackberry, but one of the major criteria is automatic sync with Exchange as seamlessly as Blackberrys do. Droid based phones can be wonky with that, and is a deal killer.

Baer

October 12, 2011 at 3:56pm

We are up and running again as of about 3:30 PM CA time.

For sure going to look at the Verizon Droid choices at CES and then decide.

Zoandar

October 12, 2011 at 2:56pm

How 'half-eaten fruit'-minded to want to proxy all the data between devices on an entire platform through back-end systems. We of the Android community would welcome you with open (source) arms. ;)

Exarkun1138

October 12, 2011 at 2:04pm

My company here in Houston, Texas and all of our clients with Blackberry's are experiencing the same outage. This sucks! 

Baer

October 12, 2011 at 2:03pm

Here in So Cal I have not had any BBy issues yesterday or today. I am concerned however that RIM is losing it. My BBy does all I want but I am afraid RIM may not keep up and that their reliability is in decline.

We will be looking at the next gen phones for our company in Janurary, right after CES and we are going to consider Droids this time. No decision yet however.

UPDATE: I spoke too soon. I have not had e mails delivered to my BBy in hours. I was at my desk so I did not notice. I can not access web pages. I just called a client who has his BBy on a different carrier and he is also down. Except for phone everything else seems to be down. Bummer.

bskoreyko

October 12, 2011 at 1:27pm

Yes I can confirm that Canadians are being affected. I have a BlackBerry Torch and it has been down since last night, our entire company has not had the use of BBM, Email, Internet, etc. Anything to do with BlackBerries push services are DOWN!