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In-depth: BlackBerry becomes Crashberry as RIM’s net fails for hours, 04/18/07
One thing is clear about the unprecedented overnight disruption of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail service. Research in Motion, which runs the service from a network operations center in Waterloo, Ontario, may get a black eye from the net’s failure, but it sidestepped a haymaker, apparently by sheer luck.
Buzzblog: BlackBerry maker owes this guy a girlfriend, 04/18/07
It was just like one of those AT&T/Cingular commercials where gaps in the conversation create terrible misunderstandings, only this time we’re talking about the BlackBerry, yesterday’s massive outage, and real people.
BlackBerry service restored, slow response irks users, 04/18/07
BlackBerry service was mostly restored by late morning Wednesday East Coast time, following a widespread North American outage that started Tuesday evening and has left some users irked enough by Research in Motion’s laggard customer service that they are considering finding an alternative.
BlackBerry suffers widespread outage, 04/18/07
The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion appears to have suffered a widespread outage starting Tuesday evening in the U.S.
Tellme expands voice search for mobile devices, 04/17/07
Tellme Networks Tuesday announced expanded services that will enable use of voice or text from a mobile phone to find specific businesses or business categories, such as flower shops, in a specific town.
Podcast: Voice over Wi-Fi Deployment Hurdles, 04/18/07
Get the lowdown on voice over wireless LANs (VoWLAN) systems as Keith Shaw speaks with Jim Geier, a wireless consultant and author of “Deploying Voice over Wireless LANs”. Find out what new skill sets IT managers will need for VoWLAN deployment, and the top 3 areas of concern. (13:50)
IDF – Intel’s Centrino package to get WiMAX next year, 04/18/07
Intel Wednesday said it plans to next year add WiMAX to its Centrino platform, a long-expected move likely to boost demand for wireless broadband services.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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