Yikes! BlackBerry email has a three-hour outage

What would you do if your BlackBerry's web-based email service didn't work? You'd be a fish out of water, a chef without a kitchen, a car without a driver, right? Well, that's what happened on Monday for thousands of BlackBerry users around the United States who found themselves stranded from about 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST without that essential tool that gets them through the day, according to Computerworld.com.

The outage did not affect corporate users linked with their BlackBerry Enterprise Server or those using a data center hosted by Research in Motion. But for consumers and small business users who rely on the web-based BlackBerry Internet Service, available through their mobile carriers, Monday afternoon was a very big headache, as they were unable to send or receive email. No email was lost, and when the system came back, users received a queue of backlogged emails.

For more on this BlackBerry blackout:
- check out this Computerworld.com article

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