The mobile phone industry is a brutal business. There may be gold in them thar hills, but it can be painful to extract. Witness the howls of rage from tens of millions of BlackBerry customers around the world who were cut off from services like BlackBerry Messenger
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BlackBerry users affected by the recent outage should seek recourse from the National Consumer Commission, Business Day reported on Thursday. Commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala said consumers would find protection under sections 55, 56 and 61
All BlackBerry services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as India, have been operating with “significant improvement”, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said on Thursday morning. “We continue to monitor the situation 24×7 to
The problems facing smartphone maker Research in Motion intensified on Wednesday as service disruptions to its popular BlackBerry service spread from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India to the US and South America. Disgruntled users, cut off from the mobile
BlackBerry maker, Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM), has finally offered users of its smartphones an explanation for two consecutive days of outages affecting users across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia and South America
Many BlackBerry users appeared to be without Internet service again on Tuesday as they took to social media networks like Twitter to complain of a fresh outage after yesterday’s prolonged interruption to the BlackBerry Internet Service. Yesterday’s outage affected
BlackBerry users have been hit by a major outage reportedly affecting the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, including the UK. The extent of the problem isn’t yet clear, but countless SA BlackBerry users began reporting problems
The original version of the article, entitled “BlackBerry to open BBM to rivals?” contained speculation that, on balance, now appears…
This was undoubtedly the week for uncapped broadband news, with MTN, Telkom and iBurst all announcing new products. Your TalkCentral hosts, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson, unpack all the announcements and what they mean. Also in this week’s podcast, we
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is losing its second regional director in four months to rival Samsung Electronics. Craige Fleisher, RIM’s regional director for Southern Africa, will be joining Samsung Electronics Africa on 1 October, TechCentral has