April 19, 2007

We may never know how many half-thought-out, off-the-cuff mobile e-mail messages were either delayed or lost in the ether last night as Research In Motion's BlackBerry service went unexpectedly dead for most users in the Western Hemisphere. The service outage began around 8 p.m. and lasted until around 10 a.m. (yesterday) morning.   [ Popular Mechanics ] I personally know a couple of crackberry heads that were almost hospitalized. 4:02:43 AM