Last night, BlackBery users in North American expereince one of the longerst BlackBerry outages in recent years. If you were one of the unlucky people who experienced this outage you were not alone.
Message delivery was delayed or intermittent during the service interruption. Phone service and SMS services on BlackBerry smartphones were unaffected. Root cause is currently under review, but based on preliminary analysis, it currently appears that the issue stemmed from a flaw in two recently released versions of BlackBerry Messenger (versions 5.0.0.55 and 5.0.0.56) that caused an unanticipated database issue within the BlackBerry infrastructure.
This was the second outage in with a week. For a company know for providing a reliable phone, this news is a bite of a concern to me since I depend on my BlackBerry for my business and work emails. RIM (Research In Development), the company that makes the BlackBerry prides itself on near perfect uptime statistics voes to correct the problem. Hopefully they get it right. Because it really sucks when I lose my ability to text, check my emails and surf the web with my phone.
Apple is AT&T ’s knight in sinny armor. After being rated as the worse wireless carrier in the 2009 year, and then losing their legal battles with Verizon Wireless over television commercial ads, AT&T needed some good news.
The good news came in the form of Apple. Apple has launched a serious of commercial touting not just the iPhone but also AT&T’s ability to handle both voice calls and data at the same time.
In one of the spots, the voiceover says: “Say you’re on a call, and your friend wants to know…” (cue the friend) “…what time’s the movie?” The finger taps up movie showtimes on the screen, and the voice returns: “You can tell him … all without ever leaving the call.”
In another example from the second ad: “Say you’re on a call with a client, and he asks…” (here’s the client) “Did you get my e-mail?” The finger taps to open the message, and the voiceover says, “You can say, yep, got it right here.”
After a few more examples comes the capper: “Can your phone and your network do that?” Cue the Apple and AT&T logos.
It will be interesting to see if these ads help AT&T’s imagine at all. Cause at the end of the day, its going to be the services that are provided and not the quality of the television commercials.
Were you affected by the latest Microsoft update? Miscrosoft announced yesterday that it is looking into its latest security updates. For those affected, they are left with a black desktop and little else on their screen.
“The symptoms are very distinctive and troublesome,” Prevx said. “After logging on there is no desktop, task bar, system tray or sidebar. Instead you are left with a totally black screen and a single My Computer Explorer window.”
However, those far, Microsoft is saying that they cannot locate the problem nor replicate it.
A Microsoft representative said that the company continues to recommend that customers “test and deploy” the November security updates.
“Based on our investigation so far we can say that we’re not seeing this as an issue from our support organization,” the representative said. “The issues as described also do not match any known issues that have been documented in the security bulletins or (knowledge base) articles.”
So if you are amoung the few people affected by this update, please notify Microsoft. We need to get to the bottom of this.
It is being reported that sales online after the Thanksgiving holiday were up 20% compared to 2008. The news has spark online retailers to continue to offer more and more offers online. So if you are looking good deals for that hot new flat panel tv, start checking online.
One word of caution. If you are ordering online, make sure you figure out the correct model for your dream tv. Then compare it to the model being offered online. Some of these bargain might be for the older model and not the latest model. If that doesn’t matter to you then you will be happy with the deal that you can find online. That is not to say that all the deals are for older models. Just check to make sure you know what you are getting and what is being offered.
The Department of Transportation finally fined Continential Airlines and ExpressJet for stranding passengers for nearly six hours last August. How much was the fine you ask? $100,000.00 was the fine slapped on their unconsciousable asses.
But they weren’t the only ones. The company that handled the grounds operation of this debacle also got fined $75,000.00.
You can’t just leave people in a plane for 6 hours. They left 47 passenagers on the dam plane. The crew on the ground would not let the people off the plane.
The passengers of Flight 2816 were kept waiting nearly six hours inside the cramped regional airliner amid wailing babies and a smelly toilet even though they were only 50 yards from a terminal. The captain of the flight repeatedly pleaded to allow the passengers to deplane and enter the terminal.
In the morning they were allowed to disembark. They spent about two and a half hours inside the terminal before reboarding the same plane to complete their trip to Minneapolis.
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December 23, 2009 11:32 pm | 
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