Want to throw BlackBerry users into a fit of the shakes?  Take away their on-device email.  Just watch the convulsions as the LED stops the soothing Red pulse of a new messages being received on a BlackBerry.  What’s wrong?!? The device must be broken, right?  Nah, your ‘Berry handheld is fine.  It’s just that RIM’s BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) went down — again – this morning.  The outage impacted all carriers in the U.S.  The official statement from RIM:

Some BlackBerry customers in North America may be currently experiencing delays receiving email.  Our technical teams are working to resolve this issue for those impacted.  Phone services, browsing and PIN-to-PIN messaging are not impacted.  We apologize for any inconvenience.”

You could almost hear the sighs of relief today as the email flow did begin hitting BlackBerry handhelds across the country.

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