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iOS 5 Rush Causes Logjam; Guide to New Features

Overstretched Apple servers worldwide ground to a halt on Wednesday as iOS 5 upgrade requests from hundreds of thousands of users swamped the Web site. The geeky quest for the latest in tech drove the upgrade rush, but experts say ordinary people should also upgrade to iOS 5 to make their devices more secure.

RIM: BlackBerry Messenger Operational Again

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Research In Motion reported late Wednesday that email was operating, and BlackBerry Messenger traffic was online and passing successfully in all regions where its service was previously affected.

RIM scrambles to end global BlackBerry outage

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The company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone is working frantically to end a three-day global service disruption that has frustrated millions of its customers and pumped up pressure on its management to make sweeping changes.
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Q&A on RIM's secretive BlackBerry network

Research in Motion is blaming technical problems in its highly secretive communications network for a three-day disruption in service to millions of BlackBerry users around the globe.
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RIM scrambles to end BlackBerry outage

Research In Motion said on Wednesday it was working frantically to end a three-day global disruption of BlackBerry services that has frustrated millions of smartphone users and put more pressure on the company for sweeping changes.
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No end in sight for global BlackBerry outage

Research In Motion said on Wednesday it was working to end a three-day global disruption of BlackBerry services that has frustrated millions of smartphone users and put more pressure on the company for sweeping changes.
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Three-day BlackBerry outages spread to North America

A three-day disruption of BlackBerry services spread to North America on Wednesday, frustrating millions of users of the Research In Motion smartphones and putting more pressure on the company for sweeping changes.
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BlackBerry outages spread to North America

A three-day disruption to BlackBerry services spread to North America on Wednesday, frustrating users of the Research In Motion devices just two days before rival Apple's new iPhone 4S goes on sale.
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Apple iOS 5 Release: Roundup of Features

Apple Inc.'s iOS 5 operating system, which will power iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3rd generation, iPod touch 4th generation, iPad, iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, is going live from Wednesday.
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RIM Investor Jaguar Financial Clamoring for Changes Amidst Global BlackBerry Outages

Plagued by a second day of service outages spanning four continents, Research In Motion's (RIM) management is facing a precarious time in the days ahead. In early September, investor and merchant bank Jaguar Financial released a statement saying it was raising support amongst BlackBerry partners for the sale of a portion of the company or some other method of maximizing shareholder value.
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Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day

Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network.
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BlackBerry problems hit four continents

Millions of BlackBerry customers across four continents are without email, messaging and browsing service on their smartphones after a series of failures in Research In Motion's private network.
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Blackberry Outage: Will the RIM Phone Be All But Extinct Soon?

RIM said it had resolved its Blackberry outage late Monday, but Tuesday morning, millions of subscribers woke up to find service still disrupted. With problems like RIM's not happening with Apple's iPhone or Google's Android devices, it seems as if the Blackberry's popularity continues to plummet to the point where it will become close to completely stifled by its competition.
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BlackBerry users suffer fresh outage

BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were suffering a second day of problems on Tuesday, just hours after Research In Motion Ltd, maker of the devices, said it had fixed a huge outage.
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Jaguar says support grows for a RIM shake-up

An activist Research In Motion investor says holders of at least 8 percent of the BlackBerry maker's stock back its call for a sale or a corporate shake-up at the struggling Canadian company.

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