The End Of The World Is Nigh!

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The End Of The World Is Nigh! Oct 13, 2011
Well it seems like that to Beth as Blackberry is down for the third day running :(

The server, which is located in West London went down for a period on Monday, then recovered and has now been down again since yesterday.
The disruption has now reached the US and has made the national news tonight. A man said he hadn't received an email since 2.30 that same afternoon!!!

Apparantly people's lives are in turmoil and the shares are plummeting on the Stock Exchange! :? Sacrebleu!

Beth's friends are threatening never to buy another BB again and will become Iphone users :evil:

Footnote: Aswell as her school friends Beth has 110 Emiratis (all male) at the last count, on her BBM.

'Do you talk to all of them?' I asked.
'No' says Beth
'Then why have them on your BBM?'
'Why not?'

The server being down has even affected me. I talk to my friend on Whatsapp (or is it Whatapps :drunken: ) every day. He has BB and I have Samsung Galaxy. We have had to resort to text which costs real money. :shock:

Life was simple in the olden days.

Have you been affected by this catastrophic turn of events?

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Re: The End Of The World Is Nigh! Oct 13, 2011
BM, thats what happens when they do Research In Motion! They tripped.
They have lied about it, it is rumoured, perhaps they fired the wrong IT guys in their company! :roll:
The rumour is that its a VIRUS, and its spreading! :shock:
And yes, I am affected. :evil:
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A virus Zonker? Isn't that what Doctors tell you, you have when they don't know what the problem is?

There was no mention of a virus by their CEO yesterday! How do these rumours get round when BBM is down?

I'm missing my hourly updates about who is doing what and where.
Hassan is at Wild Wadi
Really.
Mohammed is at Ibn Battuta
Get away.
MJ is asking if anyone is at MoE
MJ?
He's on my BBM.
Now that what i call a SMART phone :shock:

I haven't had the latest as Beth is still in bed and I haven't tuned into SKy News yet. I'm inclined to think Apple have had a hand in all this as their new Iphone is out tomorrow.

I still think life was simpler in the olden days when we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash and Steve Jobs.

Now we have no jobs, no cash and no hope. :( and no BBM!
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Re: The End Of The World Is Nigh! Oct 14, 2011
Rim went down due a server backlog which originated from UK, wasnt a virus attack , rim's statement
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