{"id":97929,"date":"2009-12-24T04:37:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T09:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/24\/blackberry-maker-is-strained-by-growth-voices\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T09:37:26","slug":"blackberry-maker-is-strained-by-growth-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/97929","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Maker Is Strained by Growth  [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Roger Cheng and Phred Dvorak, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>The second BlackBerry outage in a week shows how Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), the maker of the popular smart phone, is feeling the strain of a ballooning customer base and intensifying competition.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry devices throughout the Americas suffered service interruptions from Tuesday afternoon through early Wednesday, telecommunications carriers said. RIM issued an apology and attributed the interruption to a flaw in recent versions of its instant-messaging program.<\/p>\n<p>The glitch caused an &#8220;unanticipated database issue within the BlackBerry infrastructure,&#8221; the company said. RIM declined to elaborate or make an executive available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back problems strike at one of the biggest selling points for the Waterloo, Ontario, handset maker: reliability. RIM tells customers\u2014many of them big corporations that use BlackBerrys for internal email\u2014that its services are more secure and more stable than those of its rivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703521904574613882726743434.html\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20091224\/blackberry-maker-is-strained-by-growth\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roger Cheng and Phred Dvorak, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal The second BlackBerry outage in a week shows how Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), the maker of the popular smart phone, is feeling the strain of a ballooning customer base and intensifying competition. BlackBerry devices throughout the Americas suffered service interruptions from Tuesday afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}