Likelihood of Success

Wholly night:

For the second time in less than a week, BlackBerry users were plagued by Internet and e-mail outages across Canada and the United States.

Officials with Research In Motion, the Waterloo, Ont., company that makes the popular devices, offered no estimate last night when service to users in North and South America would be fully restored.

“Some BlackBerry customers in the Americas are experiencing delays in message delivery,” said company spokeswoman Rachel Colley last night. “Technical teams are actively working to resolve the issue for those impacted. RIM apologizes for any inconvenience experienced by customers.”

They’ve got to move this to “it’s a feature, not a bug” territory.  Because, really — what a pleasure.  Nighttime without mobile email.  In other words, nighttime.

There were no disruptions to the BlackBerry’s phone function.

Hey — baby steps!