RIM Addresses BlackBerry Outage, Offers $100 of Free Apps

Oct 19, 2011 4:00 PM

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Disappointed BlackBerry users heard from Research In Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis at the start of BlackBerry’s developer conference in San Francisco. Lazaridis offered a quick, apologetic reference to the service outage that customers suffered through last week. Customers had reported not being able to make calls or send e-mails for days.

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