BlackBerry Outage

Gizmodo, among other news sites, is reporting that BlackBerry service is down for all users currently.
Reasearch in Motion runs all data traffic through a set of secure servers in different parts of the world. More than likely one of these servers has gone kaput. This level of security is one of thing main reasons BlackBerry devices are so popular with businesses.

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In related news, productivity in Silicon Valley has received a boost from this outage.